Downer's Diplomacy Pays A Big Dividend

Last week Australian Foreign Minister Alexander Downer made a highly publicized visit to North Korea. The Liberals claimed it as proof that their "anti-terror" policies were paying dividends. Downer came home saying he had held "very productive talks in Pyongyang with senior officials."

Today, a North Korean spokesman said Bush is "a political imbecile bereft of even elementary morality as a human being and a bad guy, much less being a politician... Bush is a tyrant that puts Hitler into the shade."

Somebody should seize Downer's passport.