hyperbole. he might be crazy enough to try to ignite a war on his peninsul peninsula. what you do then? if the guy is so insane and doesn t care, what happens? we shall see. whether or not kim jong-un, the north korean leader is saying, he probably is suffering from information deficit. he may have delusions of grandeur about what his forces can do because his generals americas going to beat us. bill: he can stand up against the united states. he s entirely delusional. bill: this is a very little thing that i noticed and i m proud i noticed it. china sent back some north korean ships loaded with coal, okay? so china said were not going to buy the school from you. get out of here. that s an important step if china initiates an economic
condemning a deadly string of bombings in iraq today. the worst violence in months. at least 65 people have been killed in the attacks in baghdad that struck a dozen neighborhoods across the capital. retired army general barry mccaffrey is an msnbc military analyst. general mccaffrey, to the extent that we can, and i know we re still operating on a little bit of an information deficit, what motivated these attacks? is this message-sending? obviously, the u.s. forces have now pulled out. is this sending a message to us, or do we just not know enough yet? well, the attacks are undoubtedly planned or rehearsed two weeks ago, undoubtedly timed for the u.s. withdrawal. what we re seeing, most likely, is al qaeda trying to provoke all-out civil war between the shia and the sunni. maliki is playing along with that. there are two steps short of disaster. the sunni arabs aren t going to let a shia-dominated army and