Aw, Bobert, my man, Jan. 12th is my birthday! Why would you want to go and spoil it?

I just heard another fatuous reason why the reasons that we MUST invade Iraq (evil dictator, possible weapons of mass destruction) don't apply to North Korea (evil dictator, avowed weapons of mass destruction). Get this: it's because if we bombed a nuclear reactor it would release dangerous fallout. (I don't recall if it was Rumsfeld or one of the Joint Chiefs, but whoever it was was quoted this morning on NPR.) Of course, we have absolutely no way of finding out where N. Korea's nuclear reactors are, so we could avoid bombing them. And of course, we're not worried that Iraq might have some nuclear reactors hidden somewhere that our bombs might not be smart enough to avoid hitting. And of course, the fact that North Korea doesn't have any oilfields has nothing whatever to do with it...oh, the hell with it, I'll just make myself angry for no reason.
(Remember what we used to call somebody who could decide singlehandedly to have his country make war on another country? A dictator.)

Aloha,
Mark