NicoleC, NK is more dangerous, not to us , but to our allies, Japan and South Korea. They can hit Tokyo with the missiles that they already have with conventional warheads certainly and possibly with nukes. We don't know if they have them or not.
They could completely annialate downtown Seoul in in I think the figure was 53 seconds, using the conventional artillery that they have massed along the DMZ.
Saddam does not yet have that kind of destructive capability but our government believes that he is working on it.
Just as a performer uses one songlist for a nursing home and a very different one for a fraternity smoker, so each situation must be handled differently.
There's no hypocracy or duplicity involved, just common sense.

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