Re: North Korea says conducted nuclear test

North Korea says conducted nuclear test ... North Korea was one of the Axis of Evil countries which GW ominously warned us about a few years ago. It wasn't really clear why he wanted to label them as "evil", but he did. Iraq of course was another of them, as was Iran.

The phrase "axis of evil" drags the mind back to The Axis, which was the arrangement between Germany, Italy and Japan that led to World War II. The phrase implies cooperation between one group of countries to stand against another group of countries. But, really, how could we believe that Iran and Iraq could agree to stand together. After that long war fought between Iran and Iraq, how could they ever stand together? There is that principle, "the enemy of my enemy is my friend" but I believe the divisions between the old Iraq regime, and the Iran regime, were too deep for even that principle to bring them together.

In any case, the danger Iran and Korea present are nuclear weapons developed outside the legal framework of the International Atomic Energy Commission. In other words, Nuclear Proliferation. The danger of nuclear proliferation is that if everybody has nukes, then eventually someone will again use them in warfare. And of course nuclear weapons are so vehemently dangerous that they should never be used in warfare.

Right, Mr. President?

Oh, wait, our dear President GW Bush wants to use nuclear weapons. I forgot.

In any case, back to North Korea. This story has been growing for quite some time, North Korea and its nuclear program. There have been on and off negotiations etc. And at the same time Iran has been moving towards nuclear weapons, while protesting their nuclear program is entirely peaceful.

But where has most of the U.S. resources been spent? Iraq. Iraq had no nuclear program, had no biological weapons program, etc. Yet the danger of a mushroom cloud coming at us from Iraq propelled the U.S. into a boondoggle of a war, that's costing hundreds of billions per year, costing tens of thousands of lives, creating great anger around the world toward the U.S. etc.

And all the while North Korea and Iran have been developing their nuclear programs, outside the inspection system, outside the world legal system, etc. And because the U.S. is consumed with the war in Iraq we haven't had the freedom to take any actions against North Korea or Iran.

And it's worth considering what "take actions against" means.

Of what worth is Sovereingty? Being a sovereign nation means defending the country against all intrusions from outsiders, and that the nation makes its own decisions over its destiny.

So if a nation wishes to develop nuclear weapons, the assumption in nuclear proliferation theory is that the world cannot allow nuclear proliferation. The world cannot allow this because it's dangerous. The genie is out of the bottle with some countries, with nuclear weapons having already proliferated to a few countries during the 1950's. Any step by any country not already possessing nuclear weapons is of great concern. The weapons are so dangerous that, as I said before, the more widely available they are, the more possibility is they might be used again.

Hence the world powers have decided that no countries should "be allowed" to develop nuclear weapons unless they also submit to outside monitoring.

But what is this "be allowed" crap when we're talking about sovereign nations? As sovereign nations shouldn't Iran and North Korea and Iraq have been free to do whatever they want? If one set of countries want their own sovereignty to be respected, shouldn't they respect the sovereignty of other countries?

In order to take action against North Korea or Iran the world powers must be ready to do as the U.S. has done against Iraq. Right? If they're going to run nuclear processing plants, then the world powers must be ready to invade those countries and destroy the plants. Right?

In other words, stopping nuclear proliferation requires violating the sovereignty of free nations.

Just so long as we understand what's at stake.

The Nazi past of the Bush Family

A few weeks ago Cheney, Bush, Rumsfeld and that ilk were making speeches claiming that those who are demanding we withdraw from Iraq are the same as the appeasers who allowed Hitler to rise to power and cause World War II. Supposedly Hussein and Iraq presented as grave a threat as Hitler. Hmm... I doubt that, since Iraq had been bottled up so tightly by the U.S. forces following the first Gulf War. But even more interesting with that analogy is the background of the Bush family with Hitler and his rise to power.

See, in the mid-1930's Prescott Bush, G.W. Bush's grandfather, was up to his eyeballs with funneling money to the Nazi regime in Germany. He, at the behest of his employers, was actively funding Hitlers rise to power.

The information is widely known among those who know. This video gives a nice summary .. as does this article: The Best Enemies Money Can Buy ... and Dave Emory, politics conspiracy theorist has researched this story in depth.

The capsule summary is: Prescott Bush came from a family of social climbers who had little ancestral wealth or power. But he had the good fortune to marry the daughter of George Herbert Walker, a Wall Street tycoon. GHW is the grandfather of George Herbert Walker Bush, and the great grand father of George Walker Bush, and I've always found the pattern of those names very interesting. George Herbert Walker was closely associated with the Harrimans, and together they set up some front companies whose purpose was funneling money to Hitler. Prescott Bush was hired by these Wall Street tycoons to run those companies.