O.K. This Cowboy President, who is really a bad actor, needs to stay home. He can't go anywhere without being scripted and handled, without putting his foot in his mouth up to his hip! In a clash of wits, he is excuse me quite lacking. Nice job George, you are much better at shirking military duty, assembling underhanded ops as election tampering, dirty tricks, being the "War President Decider" and Attacking Iraq on trumped up bogus "information," removal of civil liberties, stacking the Supreme Court with toadies, ignoring the Geneva Convention, ignoring the United Nations, ignoring the Kyoto Enviromental Accord, neutering the Clean Water Act three days after you entered office,demolishing habias corpus, and using the constitution as a throw rug in the oval office. At least when you are at home you can admire the rug from your armchair.

OMG, you haters can't wait another year? He's not running for election in '08. he'll be gone. in the meantime, get your Dem stooge congressmen to end your "unjust war"

I find it difficult to understand the problem. If South Korea wants an end to the Korean War, why don't they pressure us for that a bit more? N. Korea seems happy enough to use a state of war to clamp down on its population and fling anti-West rhetoric. It's not the US who kidnaps South Koreans and abuses the "civil liberties" It is the Jolly Little Pumpkin Boy to the north.

Oh how could you have missed headlining this article: "Bush in row with Roh"?

If idiots like Jimmy Carter and Bill Clinton hadn't propped up that little dog eating dictator, N. Korea would have froze and starved it's self to death by now.
Carter got them a nuke energy technology deal and rice... which Clinton signed over, and now N. Korea has to pawn in order to get fuel oil.

A cowboy President? Would you rather have N. Korea and the terrorists run wild? The terrorists factions in this world want to rule over the U.S. and they will do anything possible to get that done. The Dems work in the terrorists hands by rooting for defeat in Iraq, forbidding eavesdropping on terrorists, etc.

Mr. Bush said it very clearly. Mr. Roh understood exactly what Mr. Bush intended to say. However, Mr. Bush's translator did not do his job properly. Since Mr. Roh knew what Mr. Bush was supposed to say and did not hear the magic words from the translator, he asked Mr. Bush for clarification. Mr. Roh does not understand English at all.

The statements by Mr. Bush and the translation were as follows:

Mr. BUSH: Mr. President. I reaffirmed our government's position that when the North Korean leader fully discloses and gets rid of his nuclear weapons programs, that we can achieve a new security arrangement in the Korean Peninsula.
(TRANSLATOR: We have double checked many times over the North Korean issues. If North Korean leader fully discloses his nuclear program and completely get rid of his nuclear program, there will be lots of changes. I think there will be new peace-keeping structure established in Northeast Asia.)

Mr. Roh expected Mr. Bush to mention but since he did not hear the words he asked for clarification. Mr. Bush replied.

Mr. BUSH: I said it's up to Kim Jong-il as to whether or not we're able to sign a peace treaty to end the Korean War.
(TRANSLATOR: What I want to say is that whether or not we propose a new peace-keeping structure is more heavily on Mr. Kim Jong-il.)

Still, Mr. Roh did not hear the magic words such as . So he asked again.

Mr. BUSH: I can't make it any more clear, Mr. President. We look forward to the day when we can end the Korean War. (TRANSLATOR: I don't know how to say it more clearly. We can end the war in Korea.)

If Mr. Bush were in the same situation as Mr. Roh, he would have done the same. It's very important to hear the magic words for most Koreans. A new peace-keeping structure in Northeast Asia is a different issue from a peace treaty and a new security arrangement in the Korean Peninsula. To avoid any future testy exchanges with the Korean president, Mr. Bush is better to get a more competent translator.