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uhuru1701
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No, McCain did not create, author, or broker this deal. This is all Bush's handiwork. Well, actually, it's Condi Rice's handiwork since she convinced Bush his legacy depended upon brokering the deal. Cheney is furious. He was adamantly against it.
But, since McCain has hitched his wagon to Bush, will conservative outrage over this deal sap conservative enthusiasm from this election?
ARTICLE EXCERPT: The surprise deal was condemned by both neoconservative hardliners and mainstream Republicans who argued that it left North Korea with nuclear weapons and rewarded Pyongyang's intransigence.
"Usually the word 'meltdown' applies to a nuclear reactor. In this case it applies to Bush administration diplomacy which once aimed to halt the North Korean programme and has now become an abject failure," Richard Perle, chairman of the Pentagon defence policy board in the run-up to the 2003 Iraq invasion.
READ MORE CONSERVATIVE REACTIONS HERE: http://tinyurl.com/5w2rec
But, since McCain has hitched his wagon to Bush, will conservative outrage over this deal sap conservative enthusiasm from this election?
ARTICLE EXCERPT: The surprise deal was condemned by both neoconservative hardliners and mainstream Republicans who argued that it left North Korea with nuclear weapons and rewarded Pyongyang's intransigence.
"Usually the word 'meltdown' applies to a nuclear reactor. In this case it applies to Bush administration diplomacy which once aimed to halt the North Korean programme and has now become an abject failure," Richard Perle, chairman of the Pentagon defence policy board in the run-up to the 2003 Iraq invasion.
READ MORE CONSERVATIVE REACTIONS HERE: http://tinyurl.com/5w2rec