From the formal “armistice” that Saddam’s generals signed with Schwarzkopf on whatever date it was (sometime in March 1991) until the US ground attack was renewed in March 2003, the “war” continued. How else can one define flying aircraft over the enemy’s territory, to include occasionally blasting ground targets (with some loss of civilian life) and also an embargo.

We (the US) are still at “war” with North Korea too. The problem is that the ROK (which refused in 1953 to be a party to the armistice!) has now essentially signed its own peace treaty with the North, though diplomatically we seem to insist on playing these games with language.

Unlike in Saddam’s Iraq (and the Dear Leader’s North), the “pricks” in the White House (as you are pleased to call them, do you really think all Americans will casually accept such insults) represent the electoral will of their voters, at least until the time of the next election.

Let’s hope these “prick” voters will soon wake up to reality and call upon their “prick” leaders to similarly sign a peace treaty with the North and then get the hell out of the ROK, lest we get into another “mess” there.

By the way, I don’t acknowledge the “legitimacy” of the UN to tell me (as a US voter) what to do. I am happy though to respond to the conscience of the so-called “international community”, which would undoubtedly wring its hands over the prospect of any renewed war on the Korean peninsula, after 50 plus years of “armistice”.

Again, best way to do that is for the US to leave and let Koreans make their own decisions as to how to run their peninsula. May it soon happen.

Bush started a WAR, a war that lacked support outside the United States and legitimacy of a UN resolution. Of course, world politicians are gloating. The real pricks are the mostly men and a few women in the White House who got us into this mess.

Do you mean amongst Koreans — or Americans? (Never mind, I think I already know your answer).

It’s only a matter of lacking means — not will. Every cold-bloodedly-objective-though-hostile-to-US state intelligence agency must have noted with interest the achievements of 19 rank amateurs, and how close they came to “decapitating” the head of the beast (esp had they not “wasted” a major part of their effort on an “economic” soft target).

Maybe “next time” they will wait until both Houses of Congress are in session and the Prez (Hillary?) is resident in the White House. That particular “software glitch” of using fully fueled jet transport jets has probably been permanently fixed, but I like to think there are always “alternatives”.

“When the invasion of Russia starts, the world will hold its breath.” — Adolf Hitler

Tried another search, found some other links referring to a discussion of ROK presence but I was looking for something official. Is there something in Korean, or is the ROK troop presence being kept completely off the “official” radar screen? Take a look if you’re interested, I am, having been enlightened to the specifics of the ROK posture in Kurdistan by GI Korea’s old posts on the subject.

If it’s there somewhere let’s note it, lest we contribute to the gyrations of the “twitching and grunting beast”, insensitive to the delicate feelings of our allies.

To borrow the words of Dr. Emilio Lizardo,

“Laugha while you can, a-monkeyboy.”