"Nobody could be crazy enough to attack Iran, especially while bogged down in Iraq."
That would be nice. But a whole raft of information and warnings from inside the White House are telling us, yes, they're crazy enough--and they're planning to do it.
A few months ago, Sy Hersh laid out the plans, and told us that the nuclear option was off the table, thanks to resignation threats of the Joint Chiefs. Now the best information is that it's back on the table.
Paul Craig Roberts, writing in the
Baltimore Chronicle and Sentinel, explains
Why Bush Will Nuke Iran:
The neoconservative Bush administration will attack Iran with tactical nuclear weapons, because it is the only way the neocons believe they can rescue their goal of US (and Israeli) hegemony in the Middle East....
Neocons have also concluded that a US nuclear strike on Iran would show the entire Muslim world that it is useless to resist America's will. Neocons say that even the most fanatical terrorists would realize the hopelessness of resisting US hegemony. The vast multitude of Muslims would realize that they have no recourse but to accept their fate.
Roberts concludes:
It is astounding that such dangerous fanatics have control of the US government and have no organized opposition in American politics.
It's time to mount some organized opposition. Call your congressional representatives and tell them to make it crystal clear that articles of impeachment will be introduced the moment Bush takes any military steps against Iran not authorized by Congress. This effort should focus particularly on senior moderate Republicans, several of whom are sane, have at least some regard for the Constitution, and evince no great desire to usher in Armageddon.
If it's a false alarm, no harm done--it's a useful exercise in any event. But if there's a one percent chance that Bush/Cheney & Co. are crazy enough to do this, we have no alternative to exerting every possible effort to prevent it.