This just in - from North Korea

[Grace]

CNN is reporting that the 2 U.S. journalists, held in North Korea, have been pardoned.

[lvpets2002]

Yes I just read that too.. Many Thanks to Bill Clinton.. He is the one that went there to get their release.. I think its the greatest of news..

[Hellow]

N. Korea pardons US journalists Laura Ling and Euna Lee:

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/us_w...d_journos.html
http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/world/6560461.html
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090804/...urnalists_held
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2009...d-journalists/

From Newsvine:
http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2009/0...lists-pardoned

[Daisy and Delilah]

YAY YAY YAY !!!!! I'm so happy to hear this and even happier that it happened so quickly after he intervened!! I didn't expect much but this is fabulous!!

[RICHARD]

YAY YAY YAY !!!!! I'm so happy to hear this and even happier that it happened so quickly after he intervened!! I didn't expect much but this is fabulous!!

Hopefully both these women have learned their lesson.

Now we have to go to Iran and get three other idiots freed.

Morons.

[Karen]

The news reports, just to clarify, are saying that there was a lot of negotiating going on lately, and likely former Pres. Clinton didn't have a whole lot to do with the actual release.

I wonder how soon the "book deal" will be signed - when they land at the airport in the US?

[lizbud]

The news reports, just to clarify, are saying that there was a lot of negotiating going on lately, and likely former Pres. Clinton didn't have a whole lot to do with the actual release.

I wonder how soon the "book deal" will be signed - when they land at the airport in the US?

Wow, I never thought you were a cynical person. Are you joking?

[Grace]

They are on their way home, in the plane with President Clinton.

CNN said this has been in the works for a couple of weeks, and the North Koreans wanted him to come over.

[RICHARD]

Both work for Current TV- I have watched some of the programming on the channel and it's an "old hippie/green the earth" stuff.

Both those yahoos have had programs on before and they have been carrying around sharp sticks while traveling around the area of NK.

Do they deserve to be jailed for 12 years and hard labor? No, not really. But they should have their passports revoked for a couple of years.

What ever the U.S. gave or agreed to to get these twits out of jail will never be known. That's part of the 'transparency" of the current regime. They'll get a book deal and we will never get the straight answers we deserve.

[Marigold2]

Bill Clinton was always my favorite president. Yes my name is Monica but that is beside the point.

[blue]

Did BJClinton have a victory party before heading home?

[Grace]

Yes I just read that too.. Many Thanks to Bill Clinton.. He is the one that went there to get their release.. I think its the greatest of news..

YAY YAY YAY !!!!! I'm so happy to hear this and even happier that it happened so quickly after he intervened!! I didn't expect much but this is fabulous!!

I'm delighted that they are on their way home to freedom and family. I'm sure their families breathed a huge sigh when they saw them boarding that plane with President Clinton.

Now we need to get the three in Iran home - safely.

[RICHARD]

Now we need to get the three in Iran home - safely.

Of course,

But why do Americans walk the planet with the idea that the U.S. will do almost anything to get them home?

I will never forget the kid who had his head hacked off by those idiots who kidnapped him. Didn't that teach anyone a lesson?

The gal who was recently kicked out of Iran because she was making a film?
Hey, it's wonderful to be kidnapped and released alive, but what 'inspires' someone to go to areas on the planet where they know shiat is going down?

I feel for the poor people who live along the US/Mex border that cross south and get punked down there?

Why are people so willing to ignore travel advisories? Who were the missionaries who ended up getting nabbed and spent years in central/south America dragged around in the forest? National Geo has a great program on people trying to smuggle dope, and get caught?

If you go to Everest and fall off, freeze or get all jacked up because you want to climb a mountain?

Yeah, I'll go for that, but when you start playing Red Rover with NK border guards carrying Chinese made AKs? Stay there stupid. Quien te mando?

[Grace]

Richard, after the three in Iran come home, I say bring home the troops - every last one of them. From Korea, Japan, Germany, Iraq and Afghanistan, from wherever they are on the face of the earth - bring them home.

Read George Washington's Farewell Address.

[blue]

Shocking as it is, Im going to disagree with Grace.

Once the 3 in Iran are home, ONLY once the women there are as free as Grace, lizbud, and ES, should we leave the warzones. To do so before hand is irresponsible.

I am suprised at how many free women want muslim women to live under Sharia law.

Free women who cant forget that women in the USA once couldnt vote or own land or a business and yet they are willing to let other women be treated as chattle, as property, that disgusts me.