[C210N]

I suspect had it been N. Korea that all this time we
were moving to get to disarm or face forced disarmament,
it would be Iraq now acting up, trying to stir things up,
to get us to not bother their Arms suppliers in NKorea. And
it would be Russia/China/France/China saying... "Whoa,
US, Iraq is a bigger problem than NK!"

[Stavka2]

Ok, that's just stupid. N. Korea is a dangerous neighbor to Russia's border...Iraq is a debtor nation to Russia and the government the US is putting togather is vocally screaming that it won't hold up any contracts from the previous government....what do you think..if Russia started a war with Saudi Arabia, formed a "democratic" government to replace the autocrats that America loves there and the new gov promised to kick out all US firms....hmmm no special interest lobbying in DC to stop that...