I'll second Howie's rant here about Slick Willie's poor taste in lighting into Bush. The really pathetic part of it, though, is that he chooses to do so the very same day that North Korea announces it's giving up its nuclear program and turning over the stuff it's made already. Like Al Gore giving a speech about the urgency of global warming on the coldest day of the year, Bill's timing is hilariously lousy.

Of course, Jeff, I don't trust the Norks on this at all: I don't trust them to allow complete IAEA inspections--I suspect there will be a lot of Saddam-style peek-a-boo being played--nor do I trust them to turn over everything like they say. But if they turn over anything at all, well, that's one pile of plutonium or maybe even one completed warhead they're not going to sell to Zawahiri or Assad or anyone else. It'll join Khadaffi's naughty stuff up in Oak Ridge, Tennessee. When it comes to yanking them out of circulation, any nukes is good nukes. What's more, this appears not to have affected our own bargaining position in the slightest.

Now: let us remember who let them get that far in the first place:

That is not Condi clinking the bubbly with The Indomitable Man from Mount Paektu! Yes, once again, Bush is cleaning up a Clinton-era problem. Much like we're now hunting down Osama--after Clinton bumbled along and wasted several shots to take him out, and while Gorelick and co. were busy building the wall between intel and law enforcement which helped shelter the Sept. 11 hiackers. Or much like Bush has deposed Saddam, after Billy Jeff looked the other way while oil-for-food corrupted the world and Iraqi children languished under sanctions, or tossed a few cruise missiles Baghdad-way after Saddam tried to take out G.H.W. Bush in 1993.

As Ace likes to say, I question the timing. And the question is, could Bill have screwed the timing up any worse if he'd planned to?

PS Cordial glasses for champagne? No flutes or saucers? Tacky, tacky, Lil' Kim. The sanctions were clearly having an effect.

UPDATE: Sorry, I'm just very curious about those cordial glasses in the picture. They look like these, which are 6.5" high and hold 2 oz.

I think this is a photo-op choice. Since Kim is like five-one with the poof, and Albright couldn't guard Smurfette in a pickup game, they chose tiny glasses for tiny people. Ordinary champagne glasses would have looked like goldfish bowls on these two. Can't have the dignitaries dwarfed by the stemware.

No, I'm happily married, one kid, why do you ask? UPDATE by Rusty: When will the Clintons ever learn? The only way to fight Kim Long Duck Dong Jong Il is the power of acting. And not F.A.G. actors, either.

Prediction?

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