the outcome of the election

[smithy]

Not to get into this too far.  I think personally, for the Bush administration there was a conjunction of factors that spelled trouble.  The fact that Iraq had developed sophisticated WMD and had used them (and possibly even Sarin in the Gulf War ala GWS),  they had relationships with and had sheltered terrorists and terrorist organizations,  the sanctions regime was crumbling, and that they had ignored numerous UN resolutions since 1991.  The fear post 9/11 was that a nation would use a terrorist organization as a delivery vehicle for WMD.  North Korea does not fit that model, although they only have one saleable commodity, weapons.

But, if North Korea is known to have nuclear missles in launch readiness pointed at Okinawa, I think there would be some people in the US Defense Department with ichy trigger fingers.  You are esentially returning the US to a cold war stance with a much smaller foe, and there are some who are crazy enough to think we could win a theatre nuclear war.  I don't think anyone wants that to happen, including North Korea.
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Seems to me, and I'm no intelligence expert, that Islamic terrorist groups with millions (if not billions) of dollars to spend would be exactly the kind of customer North Korea would want.

"You are esentially returning the US to a cold war stance with a much smaller foe, and there are some who are crazy enough to think we could win a theatre nuclear war."

That is precisely what I don't want to happen. If the missles are already launched, then it is probably too late to do anything. (oops, we have that missle defense system... yay)

Why can't well just get along? :) Either that, or we should just send the stealth ninjas :ph34r: :ph34r: :ph34r: to take out the nukes.

Smithy