perfidy

Instapundit links to a post that makes a good point, though Insta makes his own point a bit inelegantly. The full text of Wolfie's speech suggests that he made his "sea of oil" quote in regard to the ineffectiveness of economic sanctions against Iraq. That is, North Korea doesn't have oil, therefore sanctions are possible, but Iraq has lots of oil, which they can always sell to mitigate the effects of sanctions. Nevertheless, I'm thinking Wolfie would have done very well not to have brought it up. To paraphrase Jacques Chirac, he missed a golden opportunity to keep his fat yap buttoned.

Interesting to see where this one is gonna go. I may have jumped on this grenade a bit too soon, but hey, it's pretty early to tell either way.