Belligerence, politicized intelligence causes more instability (redux)

Iraq isn't the only place where the Bush administration's belligerence and politicization of intelligence has created more instability, rather than diminishing it. At least that's what reports the UK Independent.

The British paper noted: The United States appears to have made a major intelligence blunder over North Korea's nuclear weapons programme, one that may have exacerbated tensions with Pyongyang over the past four years and goaded Kim Jong-Il into pressing ahead with last October's live nuclear test, intelligence and Bush administration officials have said.

Bear in mind the paper is merely reporting what Bush administration officials are now admitting to.

The paper reiterated claims that the Bush administration was cherry picking the intelligence to fit its predetermined militaristic agenda rather than letting the intelligence drive the policies.