US intelligence gets it wrong again...on North Korea's plutonium cache

It's deja vu all over again. For grey beards who remember the CIA's infamous report proving that the Soviet Union was outstripping the US in military and economic strength, we now have another come uppance for America's intelligence powerhouse. After more or less sifting through 18.000 documents which the Kim Jong-il regime handed over to the US, it now appears that the much beating of war drums about North Korea's ability to produce enriched uranium is turning out to be Herr Bush's mouse that roared. Pyongyang acknowledges that it has produced 37 kilogrammes of enriched plutonium not the 178 kilogrammes that the Herr Bush's intelligence services proclaimed. Once again, the mantra is heard of the propaganda war which Herr Bush is waging through lies, more lies, and damned statistics. Which once again raises the question that any US intelligence guestimates or reports should be immediately suspect, and taken with a grain of salt even if they are spot on. Herr Bush may very well be applying Heinz Kissinger's rule of thumb, when you use force it is better to use 30 per cent more than is necessary than 5 per cent less then necessary...whenever you use force you have to do it hysterically. And Herr Bush's success story in foreign diplomacy is full of ripped up streets, bombed buildings, and unmitigated failure on the whole. Like peck's bad boy found with his hand in the cookie jar, we cal say with authority that we gotta yah! Still, Herr Bush knows no shame, and like him US intelligence will click Prussian heels and follow the leader's wishes instead of doing what intelligence should be doing independent work and exercising independent judgment.