Caspar Henderson of grains of sand and coralstory alerts us to a piece by Scott Horton which sets out why he thinks there will be an attack on Iran before too long: Bush's way of saying goodby, so to speak, or his equivalent of Nixon expanding the Vietnam war by his assault on Cambodia. Some quotes:
"Hardly a week passes in which I don't get a message from someonewithin the great bureaucratic wasteland on the Potomac about the Bush Administration's latest schemes relating to war against Iran. Now we're going through another one of those periods in which the pace is quickening and the pitch is becoming more intense. I continue to put the prospects for a major military operation targeting Iran down as 'likely', and the time frame drawing nearer..." [more]
"Labeling the Revolutionary Guards as 'Terrorists.'
Last week the Bush Administration floated the idea that it would schedule Iran's Revolutionary Guards (an official part of the Iranian government) as a terrorist organization. This is related to the Administration's propaganda drive to portray the Revolutionary Guard as deeply engaged in training terrorists in Iraq...."
"Costing for Ground Operations in Iran.
In the last two weeks the Department of Defense has begun pushing regular contractors very aggressively for "unit costs" to be used for logistical preparationsfor reconstruction and ground operations in a certain country of West Asia. In the last week, the requests have gotten increasingly harried. And what, exactly, is the country in question? Iran."
