It's not like we didn't see this coming:

The IAEA resolution of September 24 2005 allows the United States to carry out a nuclear attack against Iran "legally." November 12, 2005

http://www.antiwar.com/orig/hirsch.php?articleid=8007

The launching of an outright war using nuclear warheads against Iran is now in the final planning stages.

Coalition partners, which include the US, Israel and Turkey are in "an advanced stage of readiness".

Various military exercises have been conducted, starting in early 2005. In turn, the Iranian Armed Forces have also conducted large scale military maneuvers in the Persian Gulf in December in anticipation of a US sponsored attack.

Since early 2005, there has been intense shuttle diplomacy between Washington, Tel Aviv, Ankara and NATO headquarters in Brussels. January 3, 2006

http://globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=viewArticle&code=%20CH20060103&articleId=1714

The war on terrorism would be expanded, and effectively placed under the Pentagon’s control. The President has signed a series of findings and executive orders authorizing secret commando groups and other Special Forces units to conduct covert operations against suspected terrorist targets in as many as ten nations in the Middle East and South Asia.

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In my interviews, I was repeatedly told that the next strategic target was Iran. “Everyone is saying, ‘You can’t be serious about targeting Iran. Look at Iraq,’ ” the former intelligence official told me. “But they say, ‘We’ve got some lessons learned—not militarily, but how we did it politically. We’re not going to rely on agency pissants.’ No loose ends, and that’s why the C.I.A. is out of there.” January 24, 2005

http://www.newyorker.com/archive/2005/01/24/050124fa_fact

The Pentagon is bypassing official US intelligence channels and turning to a dangerous and unruly cast of characters in order to create strife in Iran in preparation for any possible attack, former and current intelligence officials say.

One of the operational assets being used by the Defense Department is a right-wing terrorist organization known as Mujahedeen-e Khalq (MEK), which is being “run” in two southern regional areas of Iran. They are Baluchistan, a Sunni stronghold, and Khuzestan, a Shia region where a series of recent attacks has left many dead and hundreds injured in the last three months.

One former counterintelligence official, who wished to remain anonymous due to the sensitivity of the information, describes the Pentagon as pushing MEK shortly after the invasion of Iraq in 2003. The drive to use the insurgent group was said to have been advanced by the Pentagon under the influence of the Vice President’s office and opposed by the State Department, National Security Council and then-National Security Advisor, Condoleezza Rice. April 13, 2006

http://www.rawstory.com/news/2006/US_outsourcing_special_operations_intelligence_gathering_0413.html

The Bush Administration, while publicly advocating diplomacy in order to stop Iran from pursuing a nuclear weapon, has increased clandestine activities inside Iran and intensified planning for a possible major air attack. Current and former American military and intelligence officials said that Air Force planning groups are drawing up lists of targets, and teams of American combat troops have been ordered into Iran, under cover, to collect targeting data and to establish contact with anti-government ethnic-minority groups. The officials say that President Bush is determined to deny the Iranian regime the opportunity to begin a pilot program, planned for this spring, to enrich uranium. April 17, 2006

http://www.newyorker.com/archive/2006/04/17/060417fa_fact

Last Saturday, the Guardian ran a story stating that “U.S. preparations for an air strike against Iran are at an advanced stage, in spite of repeated public denials by the Bush administration, according to informed sources in Washington. The present military build-up in the Gulf would allow the U.S. to mount an attack by the spring. But the sources said that if there was an attack, it was more likely next year.”

The chance of military action certainly seems to be growing. Some in the administration, led by the vice president, seem to want a confrontation with Iran before George W. Bush's term expires. A few days ago, I spoke with a person who is intimately familiar with the official debate on Iran. This person told me that the Pentagon has completed its targeting of hundreds of Iranian sites; and although he did not believe that a strike is imminent or inevitable, he does believe that the White House considers itself to have addressed and overcome all significant obstacles to a military strike. Februrary 13, 2007

http://www.harpers.org/archive/2007/02/sb-war-with-iran-1-1171385486

As America's ambassador to the United Nations, Zalmay Khalilzad, said "additional pressure" should be exerted on Iran during a session in New York yesterday, nine American ships were entering the Persian Gulf.

Mr. Khalilzad's statements came in reaction to an International Atomic Energy Agency report yesterday that declared Iran was not in compliance with U.N. Security Council demands to end aspects of its nuclear program and that the agency's knowledge about aspects of Iran's nuclear activities has "deteriorated." May 24, 2007

http://www.nysun.com/article/55109

I can't help but wonder how many people read Glenn's post and then enter their comment without reading any of the prior comments in the thread.

I cannot tell you how many times I have seen a "regular" commenter go to all the trouble of providing a wealth of information and references in response to a topic or question only to have someone several pages down thread ask a question or make a comment that has already been addressed in great detail.

It's like the student to comes to class 20 minutes late to a lecture, sits down and immediately asks a question that was answered during the first minute.

A gentle suggestion to the new readers -- read the comments before you post. You'll enjoy it. Some of the commenters on this blog are nothing short of amazing.