Just days ago I reported :
http://waysandmeans.dailykos.com/story/2004/7/2/93924/41846
now my suspicions have been confirmed, or at least substantiated by someone who is not just a googler and a blogger. A high night flyer, a rainbow rider, and a straight shootin' son of a gun!
William S. Lind writes from a conservative think tank, The Free Congress Foundation:
Shortly before I left Washington for the summer (in the good old days whose passing I regret, few stayed in Washington in summertime), my informal intelligence network gave me an interesting report: Iran was beginning to mass troops on the Iran-Iraq border. Did this portend overt Iranian intervention in Iraq? I said I didn't think so. Events in Iraq are not unfavorable to Iran, and the risks of direct intervention would be great.
However, there is a potential situation that could lead to Iranian intervention: if it were in response to an American-Israeli attack on Iran's nuclear facilities. Such an attack may very well be on the agenda as the "October Surprise," the distraction George Bush desperately needs if the debacle in Iraq is not to lead to his defeat in November.
There is little doubt that Iran has a nuclear weapons program, one that is operating under forced draft to produce a nuclear deterrent as quickly as possible. Iran, along with everyone else in the world, knows that the best way to be safe from an American attack is to have nukes. Even the most howling neo-cons show little appetite for a war with North Korea.
The problem is that, while an Iranian nuclear capability may be directed at deterring the United States, it also poses a mortal threat to Israel. Israel is not known for sitting quietly while such threats develop. It is a safe bet that Israel is planning a strike on known Iranian nuclear facilities, and that such a strike will take place. The question is when
http://www.d-n-i.net/fcs/lind_7_8_04.htm
I'm thinking darn soon. Condi is in Asia and so are 7 US aircraft carriers. The rest speed towards West Africa.
Please see my diary for recent news from the Asia Times on Osama hiding in Iran not Pakistan:
http://waysandmeans.dailykos.com/story/2004/7/4/14336/92042.
Also a great deal of fine analysis of foreign policy and the Middle East by Kossacks.