They’ll be reminded every month, with nuclear warning siren tests, that at any moment we, our children, our families, and our precious aina will be vulnerable to a nuclear attack from North Korea, with mere minutes notice.
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December 1, 2017 will forever mark a dark day for Hawai‘i, for our country, and the world. Today marks the first day of a new era, in which the lives and future of the people of our state have indelibly changed.
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I’ve been raising the issue of the increasing threat from North Korea ever since I came to Congress because the people of Hawai‘i have long known that North Korea's continued growing capabilities put us squarely within range of their intercontinental ballistic missiles.
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It is a travesty and a total failure of leadership by both Republican and Democrat administrations.
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Their short-sighted leadership over the last 40 years has left the people of Hawai‘i and this country, our homes and communities, and generations to come, under a dark cloud of a nuclear threat from this point forward.
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The threat to the people of Hawaii comes from Washington DC, not Pyongyang.
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Maybe had you supported Hillary instead of playing footsie with Bernie and then Trump, we wouldn’t be in this situation.
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Exactly!
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So true. I got chicken skin when I heard the sirens in our beautiful Kāneohe. Sad that this will be the norm for my keiki.
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I grew up with test nuclear sirens on mainland when I was a child.
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Enlighten us with your solution.
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Gabbard felt expert enough in foreign policy to go on an unapproved,mysteriously paid for trip to Syria to meet Assad: she came back glowing about how happy Syrians were & denying he'd gassed his own people. Leads me to believe her take on North Korea might be
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That was the height of great foreign policy ideas. It pretty much boiled down to: “if Assad slaughters his own people into submission, we can all celebrate the war being over.”
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Didn't Clinton negotiate NK to stop their nuclear program?
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Well, shit. I slept right through the part where the people elected me to represent them where policy is made instead of Tulsi.
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Go far away.
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