North Korea

So, while listening to the President's press conference this morning (I changed the channel thinking I was going to get to watch The View which was preempted for the conference) I was taken back by how willing Bush is to stay the course of diplomatic resolution of the North Korea nuclear bomb testing. He is standing firm that the international community can take care of the issue and that he will only go to military action as a last result. He also said similar things about Iran. While listening two things came to mind:

1) Isn't this the same thing he said about Iraq, and we were at war less than a year later? Can we really afford a second and third disaster?

2) Why is he so willing to stand by diplomacy with Iran and North Korea where he seemed gung ho to go into Iraq. First I thought that maybe he realizes that North Korea and Iran would reslult in massive casualties and would most likely require the draft to build the military force large enough to take on the two new fronts. Further, he was so willing to go into Iraq because, in spite of his pre-war press, he knew that Iraq did not pose a significant threat because there were no WMD. In the cases of Iran and North Korea, we know that they have nuclear capability and are in possession of weapons that would mean a totally different battle from the one that we fight in Iraq.

Or, maybe it is just his PR team hasn't quite figured out how to sell W W III.