You do not hear George Bush talk much about the "axis of evil" these days.That is no surprise.Rather a lot has gone wrong in the three years since America's president told Congress that it would be catastrophic to allow Iraq,Iran or North Korea to acquire weapons of mass destruction.From the beginning,the melodramatic phrase never travelled well.And after the intelligence fiasco in Iraq,which was discovered after being invaded not to have any especially sinister weapons after all,Mr Bush cannot be eager to cry wolf again.
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