Speak Softly, And Ride A Big Broom

What a symbolically appropriate day for the following story to hit the wires:

In a preview of her strategy for handling terrorist states, presidential candidate Hillary Clinton is urging a brand new aid package for North Korea in the hope of persuading brutal dictator Kim Jong Il to scuttle his nuclear weapons program.

In a Washington Post op-ed piece co-authored with Senator Carl Levin on Tuesday, Mrs. Clinton blamed President Bush for bungling the nuclear face-off.

"While the [Bush] Administration wrangled internally about whether to negotiate seriously with North Korea, Pyongyang was using the time to break out as a nuclear power," she complained. "Indeed, in February the North Koreans declared that they have a 'nuclear weapons arsenal.'"

Hillary suggested that her husband's approach had been much more successful, noting that "North Korea has apparently used the past five years to become a nuclear weapons state" and now has "many times the number of nuclear weapons it did before the Bush Administration took office."

Mrs. Clinton recommended that President Bush follow the example set by his predecessor, and pledge to give North Korea a massive aid package.

"Seriousness is demonstrated by spelling out a package to the North Koreans that addresses their fundamental need for economic assistance," she insisted.

"There is a precedent for this," Hillary said, claiming President Clinton's aid giveaway under the so-called Agreed Framework "froze the North Korean plutonium-based nuclear program for nine years."

Um, not quite.

A 1999 congressional analysis found, however, that the North Koreans began breaking their word almost immediately - and by the late 1990s had resumed the production of nuclear weapons.

In 2004, Clinton Secretary of State Madeleine Albright explained that she and her colleagues had been tricked by Kim Jong Il.

"What they were doing, as it turns out, they were cheating," Albright admitted to NBC's Meet the Press.

Well, of course they were. What is flabbergasting is that Aunt Madeleine claimed to be surprised by it. And what is appalling is that Mrs. Clinton is pretending the eminently foreseeable double-cross never happened and demanding that we pursue more of the same.

One is tempted to ask what it would take for such seditious morons to finally extract their empty heads from their ample hindquarters and start looking at the world as something other than a "Land of Make-Believe." But the answer is always the same: their make-believe ideology is their secularist religion, and no amount of evidentiary fact will ever convince them of its toxic folly.

Not even a mushroom cloud over an American city. Which, of course, will be all George Bush's fault for failing to offer more aid to the enemies openly determined to destroy us.

She's our next President, folks.

I always thought fallout shelters were cliched, but given the correlation of current trends, I might just have to look into it.

UPDATE: Check out these three posts. Then remember that these are the kind of people who will be towed to power if/when Hillary Clinton wins the presidency in 2008.

If that happens, the War on Terror will transmogrify into the War on Conservatives - until our enemies arrive to kill us all.

Bank on it.