quite the pickle

so i'm rather torn on what to do. i don't think we should have gone into iraq in the first place, but since we did, a precendence has been set. now with kim jong il waving enriched plutonium in our face, a decision has to be made. i mean the republicans are royally f---ed on this issue no matter what, but personally, i'm just not sure what the best reponse should be. clearly, the wonely wuler must be kept in check somehow, but simply dismissing their test as a failure is not enough. if they didn't hit it big this time, there's always tomorrow.

there is one thing i am sure about though. and that is CNN needs to get a better source for their pictures than the AP. at 4:05pm CST this is the headline picture that went with the caption: An anti-nuclear North protest in South Korea. i suppose this makes me think that the karaoke-esque protests overseas have to sound a lot better than the ones i hear across the street in the federal plaza - "si se puede! si se puede!"