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Blast, Mushroom Cloud Reported in N. Korea

Thank you, George W. Bush, for obsessively chasing off after a defanged (though repugnant) dictator, while allowing a far crazier and more dangerous despot to develop and promulgate nuclear weapons.

Your resolve to not deal with North Korea -- never flip-flopping into effectively dealing with them -- gave Kim Jong Il nukes.

I realize the explosion hasn't been confirmed as nuclear yet yet, but even if it's not, the way Bush has been handling North Korea and nuke proliferation in general it's just a matter of time.