Bombing Iran? Please, Don't Be Ridiculous.

I really think Sy Hersh has gone over the top on this one. It's completely implausible:

Seymour Hersh, The New Yorker’s Pulitzer-Prize winning investigative journalist, writes in a new article entitled “Shifting Targets” that there has been “a significant increase in the tempo of attack planning” for war with Iran inside the Bush administration.

Most significantly, Hersh — who has been warning for months that the administration is seriously plotting for war with Iran — reports the administration has switched its rationale for war. The focus has shifted from a broad bombing attack against Iran’s nuclear facilities to “surgical” strikes again Revolutionary Guard Corps facilities in Tehran and elsewhere.

A shift from emphasis on nuclear facilities to attacks on the Revolutionary Guard itself?

The White House has even prepared a “Clinton did it too” defense for attacking Iran, according to Hersh. “If Democrats objected, the Administration could say, “Bill Clinton did the same thing; he conducted limited strikes in Afghanistan, the Sudan, and in Baghdad to protect American lives.”

As a premise, that's ridiculous on its face. The Clinton administration strikes in Afghanistan and Sudan were against real and suspected terrorism targets; specifically, al Qaeda. A strike on military targets in Iran would not be anything close to the same thing: one target was terrorist groups with no official support of the countries they were hiding in, the other is a 125,000 person branch of a nation's own military.

Bombing military targets in Iran? Seriously? I mean, the only way that such actions by the Bush administration in Iran could at all be seen as the same as the Clinton administration's strikes against terrorists would be if the Congress were to suddenly claim Iran's Guard was not a military but a "terrorist" organization. And that would never happen, because no legislator on the planet would at this point be stupid enough to provide...

Oh.

Ooooooooooh.

Goddamn it. What kind of sh--- [This post has been interrupted. We will now resume this website's original programming.]