The Emily Litellas

Neverrrrrrmiiiinnnnnd:

For nearly five years, though, the Bush administration, based on intelligence estimates, has accused North Korea of also pursuing a secret, parallel path to a bomb, using enriched uranium. That accusation, first leveled in the fall of 2002, resulted in the rupture of an already tense relationship: The United States cut off oil supplies, and the North Koreans responded by throwing out international inspectors, building up their plutonium arsenal and, ultimately, producing that first plutonium bomb.

But now, American intelligence officials are publicly softening their position, admitting to doubts about how much progress the uranium enrichment program has actually made. The result has been new questions about the Bush administration’s decision to confront North Korea in 2002.

“The question now is whether we would be in the position of having to get the North Koreans to give up a sizable arsenal if this had been handled differently,” a senior administration official said this week.

Meanwhile, the Bush Administration having now managed to fuck up two of three "Axis of Evilers" for certain expects us to believe them, and not the IAEA when it comes to Iran.

And another fuck up, to add to the copious list. I just wish there was a video clip that adequately reflected the tenor of our times when it comes to Bush, the right-wing wurlitzer and the FoxNews viewer that would fit in with the title of this post...