With the continuing escalation by North Korea's Kim Jong-Il, we can now add the following to the dustbin of history: the Bush Doctrine and Cheney's 1 Percent Doctrine. Neither of these self-defense policies was followed after North Korea exploded its first nuclear device. Bush and Cheney bent over backward and sideways to justify a preemptive war with Iraq, but there was not even a whisper from the White House when Kim acted to become a nuclear power. Here is just another catastrophic failure of the Bush administration that President Obama has to deal with.