Bush officials have said they would welcome a North Korean nuclear test

[Oilwellian]

From the annals of catastrophic success. This graf from Glenn Kessler's piece in the Post tells the tale ...

Yet a number of senior U.S. officials have said privately that they would welcome a North Korean test, regarding it as a clarifying event that would forever end the debate within the Bush administration about whether to solve the problem through diplomacy or through tough actions designed to destabilize North Korean leader Kim Jong Il's grip on power.

Translation: The Cheneyites have always wanted a policy of force and confrontation with the NK's. They deep-sixed the Agreed Framework (which kept the plutonium out of commission from 1994-2002). Now they feel confrontation is a fait accompli.

Remind you of anything?

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