[2 Kool 2 Be 4-Gotten]

The false premise of the left when they put up the NK strawman is that they aren't in favor of getting tough with NK either. It's basically a three card Monte game - the left wants us to take our eye off the Iraq card by distracting us with NK. If we could instantaneously shift our forces and be ready to engage NK they would have some reason why we shouldn't do so. It's a false argument and a false premise. The thing is that we have Iraq in our sights and this is our best and perhaps only chance to take care of hussein. The course is to do things in order, first hussein and then NK. The left wants us to do neither. The NK argument is a total fake out and it is made disingenuously.

[churchillbuff]

they aren't in favor of getting tough with NK either

Neither is Bush. He says containment will work. What I want to know is, why, then, can't we try it with Iraq as well? I'm not a leftist, but if containment will work against a country as dangerous as N Korea (as Bush claims it will), then I think it should be tried against Iraq before some of the Marines I know are asked to die before they reach their 23d birthdays.

[cajungirl]

Right,,it is a trick. If Bush were to say, hey lets do korea while we are at it,,he would be burned out of the WH as a war mongering cowboy. And if he changed stride and said, hey NK is a greater threat,,I can hear the whining,,doesn't he care about kthe Iraqis,,,the NK argument is a feint, a trick, a slogan and the masses are buying it because they are, well, stupid is the only word I can come up with.

[brydic1]

There is not a leftwinger around that would support doing anything about N Korea now or in the future. These cowards are merely trying to distract Bush and the nation. When the time comes to deal with N Korea, this same group will be caterwauling in protest.