Hey, don't look at me; I feel like the One Tin Sailor trying to drum up interest on-topic. :-/

For what it's worth, I'm presently passing around the fellow-old-&-cranky Charley Reese's latest screed:

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article20197.htm

I'm afraid that part of the "problem" is that, with Cheney/the Likudnik's ultimate wet dream having been threatened (and postponed) for so long, we've each developed a certain sense of Iran Outrage (or, mayhaps Likudnik Lunacy). Sadly -and rest assured- such a mindset shall not serve to deliver us from the evil (and horrors) once the hounds of hell are loosed. :-(

By the by.. not to belabor the point -- but I neglected to attach the "money quote":

Attacking Iran would be folly, but we seem to be living in the Age of Folly. Morons and idiots took us into an unjustified war against Iraq before we had finished the job in Afghanistan. Now we have troops tied down in both countries.

For some years now, I've worried that we seem to be more and more like Colonial England – arrogant, racist, overestimating our own capacity and underestimating that of our enemies. As the fate of the British Empire demonstrates, that is a fatal flaw.

The British never dreamed that the "little yellow people" could come ashore by land and take Singapore from the rear or that they would sink the pride of the British fleet, but they did both.

I suppose no one in Washington can imagine the Iranians sinking one of our carriers in the Persian Gulf. How'd you like to be the president who has to tell the American people that we've lost a carrier for the first time since World War II?

Further by the by... I spent 103 days & 86 days respectively nearly 3 decades ago cruising circles in those seas aboard a CV (aircraft carrier - Gulf of Aden; Gulf of Oman; Indian Ocean).

NEVER did our admirals risk our safety by putting our vessel into the Persian Gulf proper -- it is a deathtrap -- there is NO room to freakin' maneuver! To realize that CheneyBush are putting thousands of our sailors at mortal peril by doing so tells me all I need to know: these people are batshit crazy, who have absolutely NO regard for the servicemen & women under their charge.

I hope, somewhere, a conscious-stricken JAG is typing up the requisite legal docs in preparation for the horrible miscarriage of justice I fear looms on the horizon. Cheney may get away with blowing up the basement of the Naval Observatory, perhaps - but not the mindless slaughter of his naval forces!

Damn right I'm seething over this!

Do you think he has a plan, Tom, or just an intention? How do you see the plan unfolding? What should we be watching for? What do you think the attack will look like if and when it comes? Would it be better if we attacked Iran or if Israel did? How do you think the recent success in negotiations with North Korea will effect plans to attack Iran? Let's talk.