Aren't you the people who maintain that Jpost is nothing but neocon zionist lies 100% of the time? You can't have it both ways.

Bush, Cheney, Reuel Mare Gerecht, Daniel Pipes, Ledeen, Woolsey, Bolton are all nuts possibly certifiably psychopaths. Reason and logic will not stop them.

But whether it is true or not Americans should get off their complacent asses and contact their Reps, get out in the streets, write their local papers and say NO NO NO. Not that it did any good in the run up to the illegal and immoral war in Iraq.

But responding like it actually makes a difference at the very least lets you know that you are not dead. As far as you know

“Anyone remember the Sept 2006 NIE on who constitutes a threat to the U.S.?”

Clearly not anyone in the Bush administration. Well maybe Gates.

Bush, Cheney and their crew will get in a few strikes on Iran when it will clearly be too late to impeach (not that any of our congress critters would do so anyway…well Kucinich) and then hand this catastrophe off to the next Presiden

That the neocons (Bush, Cheney, et al) would like to make sure that the next president is unable to achieve any form of detente with the Iranians and the best way to do that is to attack Iran in the closing moments of the Bush presidency.

Such an act would hamstring Obama, but also set McCain on a course that he likely supports, which is continued confrontation with Iran.

After all, Bush and the rest are not exactly the most ethical, moral or intelligent bunch.

I agree, a perfect gift for Obama and it will take the wind out of his presidential sails because he wanted to do that and then Bush will have spoiled all of his fun.

He will be left with the mess to clean up. Which will no doubt involve attacking Pakistan.

It really doesn't matter who gets to attack Iran. The point is that the people who run the country have already decided to do it.

So why wouldn't they do it?

Dead soldiers, in the short term, always help the GOP. That rally around the flag BS helps them. This is so cynical, yet it works and the GOP knows it. It is just a shame that soldiers have to die so that McCain can win Florida. Truly a despicable act but we've seen much worse.

And, in the unlikely event that Americans reject the Iran War (and 42% will support it forever) and elect Obama, that means that his first 4 years are shot. And then they can get the man they really wanted - Mitt Romney - in for 2012.

They just love America and Support Our Troops so damn much, don't they?

So...

Dubya wants to attack Iran before he leaves office? Here are a few reasons why that makes "sense"...in an apocalyptic way:

1) For AIPAC, the American-Israel Political Action Committee, this might be the best chance to get the US to nuke Iran before a Democratic president takes office, who, probably, would NOT nuke Iran sans provocation.

2) For the Republican born-again base, nuking Iran might bring on a retaliatory strike against Israel by Arabic states in the region, thereby bringing on the biblical Apocalypse...hence, the "Second Coming". Biblical prophecy will have been fulfilled.

3) To help John McCain's campaign, Dubya would nuke Iran and say that "If Barack Obama had been President, he would have talked with Iran. Only Republicans are truly manly men!"

4) Dubya, knowing a Democrat will probably win in November, wants to make the new President's job as hard as possible; a new war in the Middle-East against Iran would ensure that scenario.

5) Dubya is simply an evil, war-mongering, soul-less hemorrhoid who doesn't give a crap about diplomacy or the innocent who will surely suffer in a region-wide conflagration.

Pick your poison, ladies and gents...

Actually, it seems pretty standard. Think of how many RNC talking points passed off as news stories have hinged upon things like an "unnamed senior official".

Just once I'd like to hear an actual quote from an actual named source. Journalists should care about this too, because then it doesn't seem like you pulled the whole article out of your ass.

http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1210668683139&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull

It helps if you're quoting something Alex, to quote the whole thing. Of course you'd call the denial lies and then call Jpost lies when it says there's no report of anyone talking about it either.

Follow the money. Maybe Prezdint Chimpy McCodpiece is just looking out for his buds at Halliburton, KBR, Blackwater, etc. Iraq "reconstruction" contracts will wind down as the Dems pull troops from Iraq in the next 12-18 months. Bush is just making sure his cronies will be set with their next set of no-bid contracts to reconstruct Iran (and its oil) after we blow it up.

It's too bad impeachment was "off the table" isn't it?

Would the voters do what the GOP wants again in response to another security failure or war of opportunity?

Would the citizens of this country really expect a different result by voting for more of the same?

I can't say that I'm optimistic regarding the common sense of the majority of voters. 9/11 represented a massive failure to take action and the people who were responsible were the ones who benefited from the disaster.

The only reason the GOP didn't benefit in the long term from starting the war in Iraq is because they believed their own BullS**t. The Republicans created a Hell-on-Earth by getting everything they wanted.

As much as I worry that the Bush Administration will sacrifice more Americans to their own success I worry even more that Right-Wing ideologues remaining in the bureaucracy will betray a Democratic president for the same reason.

I wouldn't be at all surprised if an attack on Iran was in the works, but this report is pretty useless.

With Lebanon already feeling the effects of the malaise wrought by Bushit's ill advised Middle east venture as this civil war between the Shia and the Sunni begins to leak into other parts of the Middle east, an attack on Iran would ignite the whole region into one massive mess (like it isn't already...).

The biggest loser here would be Israel, as all of their regional foes would use this excuse/opportunity to attack them. Israel would have to nuke a lot of countries that it would rather not nuke, and kill tens of thousands of Islamic and Arab "by standers" that it probably would not want to nuke. That's a lot of radio active plutonium covering a region whose oil is needed if the world is to continue to operate. Radio active gasoline anyone?

Why does Bush hate Israel so much?