Now is the time. No waffling. No wavering. Democrats need to make strong statements about North Korea as an example of how Bush makes us less secure.
Harry Reid, Nancy Pelosi, Howard Dean, and other Democrats should immediately take the offensive and make it patently clear that while Bush was fighting in Iraq, North Korea made the world a more dangerous place.
Talk of the "axis of evil" and American refusal to negotiate directly with North Korea backed the North Korean military into a corner, making them believe that they needed the bomb for protection. We must talk to our enemies. Even James Baker says this in today's "New York Times."
But Bush? He allowed North Korea to get the bomb on his watch. The world is now more dangerous.
Democrats, it's time to stand up and shout this from the highest rooftops.