If the Democrats had their way, this man would have been our president. Keep that in mind when you read the following exchange from the Bolton hearing transcript:

KERRY: Why not engage in a bilateral one and get the job done? That’s what the Clinton administration did.

BOLTON: Very poorly, since the North Koreans violated the agreed framework almost from the time it was signed. And I would also say, Senator, that we do have the opportunity for bilateral negotiations with North Korea in the context of the six-party talks, if North Korea would come back to them.

KERRY: Mr. Ambassador, at the time — Secretary Perry has testified before this committee, as well as others — they knew that there would be the probability they would try to do something outside of the specificity of the agreement.

But the specificity of the agreement was with respect to the rods and the inspections and the television cameras and the reactor itself.

BOLTON: Senator, the agreed framework requires North Korea and South Korea to comply with the joint North-South denuclearization agreement, which in turn provides no nuclear weapons programs on the Korean Peninsula.

So it was not limited only to the plutonium reprocessing program.

Even a Senator can see that North Korea violated their agreement with us Why would we want another agreement? Wouldn’t we assume they would just violate it again? What is that saying again? Oh yes:

The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results. Benjamin Franklin

And what is he saying here, it makes no sense:

If you’re a leader in North Korea, looking at the United States, and you’ve seen the United States attack Iraq on presumptions of weapons of mass destruction that didn’t exist, if you announce a preemptive strategy of regime change, if you are pursuing your own new nuclear weapons, bunker busting nuclear weapons, and you’re sitting in another country, you would have a perception of threat that makes you make a certain set of decisions.

If you know we act preemptively, than why would you pursue nuclear weapons? That kind of thing ticks us off. Don’t pursue and we’ll leave you alone. Of course that’s if you except his characterization at all.