People out there that are about my age (41) may remember that tag-line from the old Mr Goodwrench commercials referring to the upkeep of your vehicles and regular maintenance preventing those big overhaul bills. Instead you slowly fill the pockets of Mr Goodwrenc....ah, thats another rant.
Anyway, race forward to 2006 and one could apply that same tagline and principle to the ongoing nuclear crisis festering in North Korea and Iran. Seems as though Kim Jong Looks Ill had a few of his Iranian buddies over for a launch party on the 4th hoisting champagne glasses hoping for the day the great satan meets destruction via one of their yet to be built warheads.
Like the man used to say, you can pay me now or pay me later. If we don't take these madmen out now before they aquire the bomb there will be no negotiating time left and we may kneeling on our prayer rugs speaking Korean with an Iranian accent sooner than you may think.
Not on this watch.
NORTH KOREA HAD IRANIANS OVER FOR LAUNCH: "July 21, 2006 -- WASHINGTON - One or more Iranians were on hand to witness North Korea's July 4 missile tests - deepening U.S. concern over the growing ties between two nations with troubling nuclear capabilities, a top U.S. official said. Asked about that while attending a Senate hearing, Assistant Secretary of State Chris Hill, the chief U.S. negotiator with Pyongyang, said, 'That is my understanding,' and added that it was 'absolutely correct' to call the relationship worrisome.
That was the first U.S. confirmation that Iranian representatives observed the launch of a long-range ballistic missile that failed soon after being fired and six tests of short- and medium-range missiles that, Hill said, succeeded in hitting their target range.
U.S. officials, who have long suspected Iran and North Korea of collaborating, fear that the cash-strapped North Koreans are eager to sell missiles and, possibly, nuclear material.
'Our understanding is that North Korea has had a number of commercial relations in the Middle East with respect to missiles,' Hill said."
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