The United States Removes North Korea From Terror List

Today is a huge day if your a citizen of North Korea. Confirmed by multiple State Department officials today Secretary Of State Condolezza Rice signed a paper removing the North Korean, communist state from the terror watch list.

This comes after years of conflict with the Northern half of the Korea. While they had agreed to an agreement months earlier to be removed, they weren't. In response to this they began rebuilding their reactor...well that seemed to get the American government moving. Not to mention reacent missile tests, and the placement of the SCUD-B missiles on the eastern half of the nation.

This created fear, and worry in Washington. While forcing the State Department and the White House to take action.

So with today's action by the State Department...we have one less 'evil' nation to worry about.
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The Perspective: Well, well. I guess that if your Kim Jong Ill today is a good day for you. The little man has finally gotten his head on straight and done the right thing. Even though it did take a stroke for him to do it.

Lets just thank God and the great people who allowed this to happen. While it took many years and many(to many really) arguments to get done, lets just be happy that it happened.

You'd think I'd have more to say, well I do.

Sure I'm glad their off the list. But I still don't trust them. When Israel says you sell weapons to terrorists, you DO sell weapons to terrorists.

I have never and will never trust the North Koreans.

If You Don't Think The Surge Worked...Fuck You

Market by market, square by square, the walls are beginning to come down. The miles of hulking blast walls, ugly but effective, were installed as a central feature of the surge of American troops to stop neighbors from killing one another.

The slow dismantling of the concrete walls is the most visible sign of a fundamental change here in the Iraqi capital. The American surge strategy, which increased the number of United States troops and contributed to stability here, is drawing to a close. And a transition is under way to the almost inevitable American drawdown in 2009.

There are now more than 148,000 United States troops in Iraq, down from the peak of around 170,000 a year ago, and President Bush has accepted the military’s recommendation to remove 8,000 more by February.

Iraqis are already taking on many of the tasks the Americans once performed, raising great hopes that the country will progress on its own but also deep fears of failure.

On Oct. 1, the Sunni-dominated Awakening Movenment, widely credited with helping restore order to neighborhoods that were among the most deadly, passed from the American to the Iraqi government payroll in Baghdad. There is deep mutual mistrust between the new employer and many of its new employees, many of whom are former insurgents.

Another element of the transition, which has attracted far less notice than the Awakening transfer, is the effort by the Iraqi Army to begin turning over neighborhoods to the paramilitary National Police. In the future, its officers, too, will leave and be replaced by regular police officers.

All three moves mark a transition to an era in which Iraq’s Shiite-dominated government seeks more control over its own military and sway over America’s.

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The Perspective: All the critics can shut the fuck up. If this doesn't go to prove that the idea of the Surge put forward by John McCain and now CENTCOM Head General David Petraeus WORKED, nothing does.

This plan has allowed the Iraqi Security Force and Iraqi Police Officers to create security and peace in the majority of Iraq. Do you hear about our men and women in uniform getting killed now?

No!! Why is this? The Surge was a success and it will and has allowed us to bring our men and women home.

If you read the process of withdraw time line agreed upon by the United States and Iraq our soldiers will leave the cities in June of 2009. We will remove ALL combat troops from Iraq by the end of 2011.

Quit complaining, quit arguing. The Iraq war is almost over and everyone who says we did this for nothing doesn't look at the big picture and is a narrow minded fool.

North Korea Preparing To Fire More Missiles

According to reports by both the United States, State Department and South Korean Intelligence Agencies North Korea is preparing to at least test fire missiles.

The comes after North Korea has begun rebuilding the cooling tower on their nuclear reactor. The real threat is that according to U.S. intelligence estimates North Korea has enough weapons grade plutonium to create about a half dozen nuclear weapons.

According to a U.S. government official I spoke to U.S. spy satellites have found at least 10 short to medium range SCUD missiles on a small inlet island.

While North Korea routinely tests short range missiles, its the current activities of North Korea with the nuclear reactor and its hatred for The United State and her allies. The missiles that it currently has prepared for launch could reach Seoul, South Korea and as far as Russia.
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The Perspective: Wow. Big problem. As we know North Korea, no matter who is truly in charge is a radical Communist state. With support from China and some from Russia, you can completely eliminate the possibility that these missiles are for China or Russia.

They would never attack their allies. But South Korea is an entire different story. As most of us know(I hope we all know that North Korea hates the South) North Korea has always felt that the area the south controls belongs to them.

According to this history, it seems logical that these missiles are for one of two things.

1.)Its just a test, nothing more, nothing less.
2.)Its for a strike against South Korea.

If it is a strike against South Korea we need to watch for troop movements by North Korea. It has been know for years, that the North would amass 250,000 troops at the DMZ and attempt to capture Seoul within 48 hours.

The sad thing, according to military strategy only one thing can be used against the North Koreans to stop them from capturing Seoul is...

Nuclear Weapons.

Lets hope its just a test.

Man In London Shot 3 Times; Claims It Was Over His Pro-Obama T-Shirt

From FOX News.com

Dube Egwuatu told the Mail he was purchasing a cell phone when a stranger started shouting racial slurs over his shirt featuring the presidential candidate’s face and the word “Believe.”

Egwuatu zipped up his jacket and headed for his car, but as he turned it on, the gunman opened the passenger side door and shot him three times, hitting him in the face, hand and shoulder.

Egwuatu managed to drive off while bleeding and call for help. A piece of metal was removed from his jaw from the attacker’s gas-powered ball-bearing pistol, the Mail reported.

“He was telling me that he was going to kill me,” Egwuatu told the Mail. “I couldn't believe it was happening — and just because I was wearing an Obama T-shirt. He was trying to make me walk somewhere quieter, saying: ‘I've got something for you,’ and ‘I'm going to kill you.’”

Local police are still looking for the gunman.

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The Perspective: Bit much huh? You know that this Presidential election is getting out of hand when someone not living in America, gets shot because he wants Obama to win the election 'across the pond'.

I'll tell you right now, as you know I'm a McCain/Palin supporter and have already voted for them Absentee. But I would never go this far. America and England are both free nations where people are allowed to express their own personal beliefs and opinions. This blog is just an example.

By no means, should anyone ever be threatened due to their own beliefs, physical attributes, or ideas. Never, ever. We as a people who over time have became more and more forgiving for peoples flaws, should stop these acts of violence against innocent people and just let this election happen.

Only 27 days left.

McCain/Palin 08!!

Little Russia/Georgia Update...and a dead Taliban Leader

• Russian troops have lowered the flag at a checkpoint in Georgian territory
  
• Georgian officials say another post has been dismantled
  
• Russia faces a Friday deadline to pull troops out of the so-called "security zones"

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The Perspective: Well its about time. The Russian military since they have invaded Georgia, have been causing hell for the Georgian people. The 'Big Bad Kremlin' tried to take over Georgia and sway their right to join NATO.

Georgia who is a huge worldwide oil transporter is a key ally of the United States and The EU. Russia who's only competing pipeline in the region goes through Georgia. It seems logical that Russia would want to capture this pipeline and control ALL oil in the area.

Russia needs to be controlled, and watched closely. As I've talked about before....Putin is a serious problem.
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DERA ISMAIL KHAN, Pakistan — Intelligence officials suspect a top militant leader may have been killed in an alleged U.S. missile strike because the Taliban are unusually angry about the attack.
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The Perspective: This is why we need to send special forces operators into Pakistan. It is a known fact by our intelligence community that the key Al Qaeda and Taliban forces are in Pakistan. Fuck what the government in Pakistan says...infiltrate Pakistan and eliminate the terrorist threat.

HOOAH BOYS!!