Demagogue

Over in The Corner, Stanley Kurtz links to this NYT article about North Korea (probably) selling processed uranium to Libya and makes the following conclusion

We’ve just received an incredibly powerful reminder of why we went to war with Saddam Hussein.

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The core reason for our invasion of Iraq was to prevent Saddam from developing a nuclear bomb. While our troops did find nuclear facilities in Iraq, they were far less developed than our intelligence had led us to believe. Yet now it turns out that the danger of Saddam Hussein obtaining nuclear weapons was greater than we believed, not less.

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Had Saddam been left in place, he might easily have been able to buy a finished nuke from the Koreans within a shorter time-frame than Kenneth Pollack worried that he could develop nukes on his own. After all, we already know that Saddam purchased missiles from the North Koreans. So this evidence that North Korea has already crossed the red line of exporting nuclear material is a huge development. It shows that the war in Iraq was absolutely justified. It also shows that the axis of evil is really an axis–they cooperate.

The article itself mentions Iraq only once, and that is in the context of it being a part of Bush's "Axis of Evil."

Yet somehow the fact that North Korea allegedly sold uranium to Libya retroactively justifies the war in Iraq because Hussein might have eventually tried to buy some too.

It is a good thing that Iraq was the only state that in any way threatened the US, otherwise logic would dictate that we start invading every other country that might try to buy uranium from North Korea sometime in the future. And each one of those wars would be "absolutely justified."