Bush and Powell Get Caught Lying About North Korea

by Steve

It is bad enough that Bush snatched defeat from the jaws of victory and summarily rejected North Korea’s offer to shut down its nuclear weapons development and export program and allow verifying inspections in exchange for a nonaggression pact with the United States. It is even worse that it now turns out that the Bush Administration lied for the second time in six months about a claim allegedly made by Pyongyang.

And China caught us at it.

China says that according to its information North Korea has never admitted to having nuclear weapons, contrary to United States claims. The admission, according to US sources, came during three-day talks in Beijing which concluded Friday, the first meeting between US and North Korean officials since the nuclear crisis erupted six months ago.

"According to my knowledge the DPRK (North Korea) has not made such a statement," said foreign ministry spokesman Liu Jianchao when asked to comment on allegations that North Korea had confirmed it possessed a nuclear bomb.

First, we lied about the North telling us that they were restarting their weapons development program last October. Now this. Both times the man transmitting the false information was Assistant Secretary of State James Kelly.

The difference this time is that China is directly involved in the talks and can tell the world when we are lying. And yet Bush lies anyway.