Bert Trautmanns Helemet
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Bush didn't meet NK because it's long been the case in the West that a meeting face to face would give the brutal dictatorship a legitimacy. Something the Republicans were at pains to argue when Obama hinted of a meeting.
Here is the break down of the 2005 meeting,
https://www.nytimes.com/2005/09/19/world/asia/text-of-joint-statement.html
Obama hinted at a lot of things but delivered fuck all apart from health care.
He was the most disappointing US President in living memory.
A fraud who could talk the talk but not walk the walk.
The world is full of them...