Condi as Smokey the Bear

While Colin Powell reassured us that the mushroom cloud above North Korea did not result from a nuclear explosion, Condi Rice put her big brain to work and came up with an explanation:

Ms. Rice said it was possible that the fire seen Thursday - the South Korean press described it as a mushroom-shaped cloud of smoke that extended two miles across - might have been a forest fire.

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