LIE OF THE WEEK: 06-27-2008

President Bush on lifting some sanctions against North Korea:

"If North Korea continues to make the right choices, it can repair its relationship with the international community, much as Libya has done over the past few years. If North Korea makes the wrong choices, the United States and our partners in the six-party talks will respond accordingly."

THE TRUTH: Which right choices are these exactly? North Korea has significantly increased it's stockpile of nuclear weapons during the Bush Administration and has only taken superficial steps (such as this week's destruction of a famous nuclear facility) to appease the world's demand that it dismantle its arsenal. Libya is cited by the president as an example, but they are the most proven state sponsor of terrorism and have never truly repented. They did shutdown their nuclear program after being caught red-handed, but that was only because they hadn't reach any critical stage yet where they could wield their nuclear arms as a stick to mitigate international pressure (as North Korea did for many years) and the threat of a neoconservative-led attack on their country. President Bush has shown North Korea that there were no negative consequences for their years of deception and is trying to salvage his record as one of the worst presidents through last minute accomplishments such as this and we can only hope that he does not appease these dictators to any extent that will make it harder for his successor to stand up to them next year.