Bush Will Send a Stern Message to North Korea About Exploding Nuclear Bombs by Attacking Iran

Well, the speculation has been that if there is going to be any October surprise – outside of sentencing Saddam to die for killing fewer Iraqis in 20 years than Bush’s war has killed in four (and, of course, some Osama videotape sure to pop up the Friday before the election) – it will be a surgical bombing of Iran nuclear facilities.

This, of course, will be done to send a stern message to North Korea, since Bush doesn’t want to bomb North Korea and initiate the destruction of Seoul, which is just a short distance from the demilitarized zone with its Communist neighbor. Condi has bent over backwards to assure the world that the U.S. has no intention of attacking North Korea, so in Bush logic, that means you have to bomb a country several thousand miles away. ...