Just Watch - Now that

Just Watch - Now that the "Bush Lied" story is losing its legs faster than a Walmart end table in a freshman dorm, watch for the "Why Iraq, and not North Korea" story to make a return.

By the way, you're hearing all about the "expert" prediction that the North will have eight nukes by year's end. The seven-second soundbite doesn't emphasize the name of the expert making the claim - William Perry, who was defense secretary and a special envoy to North Korea under, in both cases, Bill Clinton. The administration that got us into the mess with the North in the first place.

Perry shows a case of creeping Ritterism:

Only last winter Perry publicly argued that the North Korea problem was controllable. Now, he said, he has grown to doubt that. "It was manageable six months ago if we did the right things," he said. "But we haven't done the right things."

He added: "I have held off public criticism to this point because I had hoped that the administration was going to act on this problem, and that public criticism might be counterproductive. But time is running out, and each month the problem gets more dangerous."

Did he do this because he "hoped the administration" would act? Or just to give more political ammo to whichever Democrat wants to come out of his appeasenik shell first?

The timing is interesting, that's all.

Posted by Mitch at July 22, 2003 06:21 AM