Bush is dishonestly understating North Korea.

As bad as the Bush exaggerations of the Iraq threat are, I think the deliberate understatement of the North Korean crisis may be far worse. In this year's State of the Union, Bush got us into a war using exaggerations and half truths. But in last year's State of the Union, Bush set off the current scary chain of events in North Korea. It was Bush's "Axis of Evil" speech that put North Korea on the nuclear warpath. What is it with George W. Bush and State of the Union speeches, anyway?

Thanks to Bush, we now have an unstable, loony-led, communist regime building up to 10 nuclear bombs (according to Tim Russert) by year's end. That's 10 more nukes than they had under Clinton for those who are keeping score. All of them will have "With Hate to America" written on them, either in North Korean or in the language of whoever buys them to use against us.

Maybe if Bush had handled the problem more honestly and proportionately (or hadn't created the problem in the first place) Korea wouldn't have chosen such a desperate course for itself and the United States. Maybe North Korea had to process enough plutonium for 10 bombs just to get past Bush's smokescreen of understatement. Maybe Bush understated the problem of North Korea because he caused it.

Can't attack, too dangerous. Plan B? We don't do Plan B.

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After seeing what this nut did in Iraq, and then calling me a rogue state and part of an axis of evil, you bet I'd be trying to get nukes.

The guy's clueless.