Hey, remember how we were told that the sight of our mighty war machine turned a once-defiant North Korea into a quivering mass of Jell-O, desperate to sue for peace? Yeah, we sure taught those Koreans a lesson!

Oops.

WASHINGTON, April 18 —  The United States may cancel the first face-to-face meeting between American and North Korea officials in six months, U.S. officials said Friday, following Pyongyang’s announcement that it is “successfully reprocessing” 8,000 spent fuel rods, which would provide enough plutonium for several nuclear weapons. Even for a regime given to provocative statements, the North Korean announcement was a stunner because the two countries appeared to be edging toward lessening tension over Pyongyang’s nuclear weapons program, which Washington says must be entirely dismantled....

In its statement Friday, North Korea said the Iraq war “teaches a lesson that in order to prevent a war and defend the security of a country and the sovereignty of a nation it is necessary to have a powerful physical deterrent force only.”...
   
--MSNBC

Er, wrong lesson....