Duds and more duds

It seems that my guess that the Korean bomb suffered a timing malfunction or design flaw and produced only a fraction of it's intended yield seems to be corroborated by experts from several countries. According to sources in China, it was intended to be a 4 kiloton blast but the seismic data shows only an eighth of that strangth. It may be that Korea is further from a usable weapon than we feared.

Speaking of duds, there's John McCain who on top of being stupid enough to completely misunderstand that hoary 'carrot and stick' metaphor, is dishonest and deceitful enough to blame Korea's Wiley Coyote moment on Bill Clinton and far worse, Republican enough to think that using the word Hillary will distract us from the gross incompetence of the administration he pretends to challenge with lips firmly attached to George W. Bush's cowboy butt.

"I would remind Senator (Hillary) Clinton and other Democrats critical of the Bush administration's policies that the framework agreement her husband's administration negotiated was a failure,"

It wasn't of course, until Bush took it over. Clinton was holding inspections and the Koreans ceased work on bombs and of course Bush's "policy" was to offer money and then talk about talks while trying to sound tough for the supporters. I may be a purist, but complaining about another's lack of success from a position of bungling incompetence is something worthy only of liars, cheats, idiots and Republicans.