RUSH: Snerdley and I were talking about the North Koreans and their test. There is going to be a sanctions vote tomorrow, and once again, ladies and gentlemen, we have been shafted by the Russians and the Chinese. The vote on sanctions is tomorrow, and Fox had a little breaking news story this morning saying that an arms embargo will not be added to UN resolutions. There will be no ban on where the NorComs can fly in the resolution. I mean this is really watered down stuff, to be voted on tomorrow morning.
Now, all of this is supposed to deter North Korea? All of this is supposed to deter Iran? Make no mistake about something on this: The Iranians are watching all this very carefully, just as they were watching the Israeli-Hezbollah war. (They probably started that one just to check everybody’s resolve.) I did an interview with Joel Rosenberg earlier this week for an upcoming issue of the Limbaugh Letter, and Joel, I mean he’s convinced that the ChiComs and the NorComs have an alliance, but he really believes that the North Korea thing is something being sponsored by Iran to test everybody in the world’s reaction to it, just to see if we have the
Now, it appears that this little Kim Jong Il may be pulling a Saddam Hussein: doesn’t have a weapon yet, trying to make everybody believe that he does. We had Saddam trying to be the big guy, the big anti-American guy in the Middle East, and here’s Kim Jong Il, who “just wants some respect,” and I’m sick and tired of hearing Democrats go on television at night, “Well, he just want some respect! If we would just grant him some respect.”
Why should we have to grant these guys respect? What have they done to earn it? You’ve seen the satellite photo, haven’t you? Rumsfeld showed this picture the other day at a press conference. It’s a nighttime satellite picture. It shows lights blazing all over South Korea.
In North Korea it is
In a way, I can’t help but think that this watered down resolution is a little pathetic. We go to the UN, China and Russia dilute our efforts, and we get nowhere, and yet we keep going there! We don’t
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