North Korea Has the Bomb -- Ho Hum

Yesterday North Korea officially said that it has nuclear weapons.

I wonder how this can rate as front page news. Can anyone be surprised? I felt all along that North Korea has such tools of war, and the Bush Administration's invasion of Iraq clinched it.

At that time North Korea was more menacing to others than Iraq was, as it is today and has been for a long time. Yet Iraq was invaded while North Korea was left unmolested.

North Korea is right next to the very important industrial entity, South Korea, to say nothing of a huge, bustling, prospering, modern city, Seoul. Iraq, on the other hand, suffered from having little or nothing comparable next door.

Those far different neighborhoods may have had most to do with the anomaly, but I think that the fact that the Ill Sungs had nuclear weapons and had left no doubt in anyone's mind that they were capable and crazed enough to use the things also contributed to their immunity from attack when confronted by the Bush people.

How can anyone really believe that the Bush pugs would have rolled into Iraq if they had had the slightest reason to believe that Saddam actually had nukes, or any other of those fabled weapons of mass destruction? Predictably, though those WMD's were strongly touted to be there, after two years now not a trace of them has ever been found.

For the same reason Bush proxies and doxies can float reports -- denied, officially, on the higher levels -- about the intent to attack Iran next, but I think that Iran, like North Korea, is quite safe from such a calamity, precisely because it most likely has the Bomb and thus, presumably like every other country that has it, retains the option -- and can always come up with enough unprincipled so-called leaders -- to use it.

There is nothing anywhere in the world that can't be excused by glibly insisting that it is God's Will, even when -- officially -- God isn't.