You mean it was all lies?

Well, at least dubious claims at best. As we all may recall, back in 2002, the Bush administration said that North Korea was enriching uranium in violation of a 1994 agreement that the Clinton administration reach with North Korea. As a result, Bush ended the accord, North Korea built up some plutonium, and North Korea set off a nuclear test this past fall. This, of course, has led to a giant stalemate and fears of what North Korea will do as it is becoming a nuclear power.

It turns out, however, that perhaps none of this ever should have happened. The original evidence that Bush based his accusations on now appears to be somewhat dubious. In fact, the administration is backing away from those initial claims, as a new agreement with North Korea (and the possibility of inspections revealing the truth about the country's uranium enrichment) is in the near future.

Of course, it still remains possible that the original claims were right, but David Kay, the administration's man in Iraq who looked for WMD's following the initial phase of the Iraq War, appears to believe that the original claims were based on rather flimsy evidence. Assuming I've got this all straight, what I hear is that:
a) All the criticism of the Clinton administration was wrong. As I recall, everyone was saying that the Clinton administration was a bunch of fools for trusting North Korea. Of course, aren't we also a bunch of fools for trusting the Bush administration? Over and over?

b) North Korea probably would not have gone on its plutonium/nuclear weapons spree if the U.S. hadn't suddenly broken the accord and gone all bellicose on them.

c) Our current problem with North Korea is, in fact, rather self-induced.

Frankly, I don't trust anything from this administration simply because what they say appears to bear no relationship with the truth. If they said the sky was blue, I would assume that there was no more evidence for the blue color of the sky than for the purple with pink polka-dot color of the sky.

Bush had better hope that these inspections show their original claims were, luckily, right. Of course, that means the Bush administration takes the shotgun approach to accusations -- make enough of them against enough countries and, well, you'll turn out to be right at least once.