[Miss Marple]

Boxer thinks the North Korea problem exists because Bush was "obsessed" with Iraq. Lugar babbles about Clinton administration asking him to go and then North Korea called it off.

This was a total waste of my time. Nothing newsworthy, nothing said that we have not heard, except for one thing:

Boxer's emphasis on how the democrats "were on the same page as General Casey" indicates to me that this news was leaked to the NYT by a Congressional democrat for the exact purpose that Boxer used it for this morning.

[Miss Marple]

LA Times guy on CBS says that now next week the President will get to explain why General Casey's timetable is not the same as the democrats' timetable.

I WAS RIGHT. THIS IS A COORDINATED EFFORT.