More than 33,000 American troops died in the Korean War from 1950-1953, and more than 8,100 are listed as missing.

And after 3,000 Civilians killed on 9/11, and appx. 3,000 honored dead in the “Global War on Terrorism”, the Democrats want to come home and hide.

Kinda puts things into perspective……

Does anyone else find it odd that, after all this time, some horrible torpedo-induced accident has not yet befallen the captured Pueblo?

Kid from Brooklyn on April 9, 2007 at 3:08 PM

If Okinawa is close enough to strike Iraq then we could just claim the sinking of the Pueblo as collateral damage…right?

Bill’s off on another useless jaunt there.He didn’t accomplish anything the last time & he won’t this time.

Read the post.

Richardson, a Democratic presidential candidate who is in North Korea this week to collect the remains of U.S. servicemen killed in the Korean War, said the tour of the ship was “unpleasant.”

“Despite the success with the remains, this is a relationship with a lot of tension, and this shows that,” Richardson told reporters after the tour.

With maybe a bit of an F-22 flyby?

So take a couple of airplanes and blow the old tub to smithereens. The resultant loss of the dictatorial credibility will be dangerous for a while but will work in OUR favor, no doubt about it.

No, seriously, though, I wonder why there are no photos.

*speaking from ignorance warning* I seem to remember from a long-ago report on a visit to Panmunjeom (DMZ) that it takes the Nork equivalent of a Papal Dispensation to be allowed to take photos in North Korea. It may even have been that those touring the conference room on the border could only take pictures from the South Korean side of the room.

And I was livid when Time magazine reported that the crewmen were defying the North Koreans by giving the “Hawaiian good luck sign” during propaganda shots — while the men were still in captivity! Some things just don’t change when it comes to the msm.

It also ticks me off that North Korea still has that ship.

Interestingly, the prisoners endured a second round of torture when Time magazine outed their photo shenanigans.

Several official photos circulated around the world of the Pueblo crew displaying the so-called “good luck sign.” It wasn’t until Time Magazine published one of the photos, with a caption explaining the real meaning of the offensive hand signal, that the prisoners’ motives were exposed, he added.

That’s when the real week of hell began.

“They beat the snot out of us. One of our guys, Chuck Law, was beaten so badly he lost his sight in one eye,” said Rigby, who stopped and struggled to remain composed before continuing. “He took a lot of beatings for the crew.”

A B-2 could easily drop a couple of 2,000 pounder GPS-guided bombs on it – even if we didn’t just shrug and say, “We don’t know who did it,” it’s our property, anyway.

On a related note, the reason the Norks seized the ship was at the Soviets’ behest. John Walker had given them the US Navy’s codes, but without a cipher machine the codes were useless. So the Soviets had the Norks grab the Pueblo, making it look like some unrelated incident.

It worked, too; we never suspected what’d happened, and for many years afterward the Soviets could read our secret Navy communications at will until Walker and his family of fellow-spies finally got busted.

Pak In Ho

Will…not….make….joke….

He called the Pueblo visit “a lot of propaganda, but we’re guests here.”

Hey, at least he was honest about it.