War with Iran would be a very, very, very baaaaad idea. In the best of cases (if we had no OTHER wars to deal with) it would be complicated, and would have to be based on REAL evidence of an actual or imminent attack. There must be Republicans out there that know that this would be, in addition for terrible for the country, very bad for the party, and would think they are trying to make their voices heard as well.

Pyst, you’re optimism is refreshing. Unfortunately, I’m fairly certain Bush could propose wiping out the entire Muslim world with nukes and interning every Muslim American and Laura would break out the pom-poms. That’s just how extremists are. I’m fairly hard on Islamist issues, but I’m a puffy sugar-coated tye-dye liberal on the matter compared to her.

If Bush does this he’s been put on notice as of yesturday what the outcome will be….impeachment. Biden hinted at it, and also let on that there are enough congressmen left and right, already privately talking about this very subject in regards to this story to inact the measure.

WP Article 1
WP Article 2

British Find No Evidence Of Arms Traffic From Iran

ON THE IRAQ-IRAN BORDER — Since late August, British commandos in the deserts of far southeastern Iraq have been testing one of the most serious charges leveled by the United States against Iran: that Iran is secretly supplying weapons, parts, funding and training for attacks on U.S.-led forces in Iraq.

A few hundred British troops living out of nothing more than their cut-down Land Rovers and light armored vehicles have taken to the desert in the start of what British officers said would be months of patrols aimed at finding the illicit weapons trafficking from Iran, or any sign of it.

There’s just one thing.

“I suspect there’s nothing out there,” the commander, Lt. Col. David Labouchere, said last month, speaking at an overnight camp near the border. “And I intend to prove it.”

It’s 2002 all over again, will the MSM and the public buy into the ‘cherry pickin’ again?

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/08/24/AR2006082401917.html
Maj. Charlie Burbridge, a British military spokesman, said the last of 1,200 troops left Camp Abu Naji, just outside Amarah, at noon Thursday, after several days of heavy mortar and rocket fire by a local militia, which local residents identified as the Sadr-controlled Mahdi Army. Adopting tactics used by a British special forces unit in North Africa during World War II, 600 of the soldiers plan to slip soon into the marshlands and deserts of eastern Maysan in an attempt to secure the Iranian border.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/10/03/AR2006100301577_pf.html
British Find No Evidence Of Arms Traffic From Iran

ON THE IRAQ-IRAN BORDER — Since late August, British commandos in the deserts of far southeastern Iraq have been testing one of the most serious charges leveled by the United States against Iran: that Iran is secretly supplying weapons, parts, funding and training for attacks on U.S.-led forces in Iraq.

A few hundred British troops living out of nothing more than their cut-down Land Rovers and light armored vehicles have taken to the desert in the start of what British officers said would be months of patrols aimed at finding the illicit weapons trafficking from Iran, or any sign of it.

There’s just one thing.

“I suspect there’s nothing out there,” the commander, Lt. Col. David Labouchere, said last month, speaking at an overnight camp near the border. “And I intend to prove it.”

W and Condi are selling a lie just like WMD’s and al-Qaeda in Iraq. This time the press and public won’t buy into the propaganda – lets hope W doesn’t attack anyway.

are going to clone the approach used to get the U.S. into Iraq and go after Iran and Afghanistan.

I’m guessing you mean Iran and Syria, since we are already in Afghanistan.

I find this a little hard to swallow. It seems imposible to me that Bush would risk war with Iran AND Syria for the sake of….what? I do understand the need to get rid of supply networks and the frustration of respecting borders when the enemy doesn’t, but the posibility of full out war with these countries cannot be contemplated. Forget 20.000, we’d need at least half of our armed forces to handle (if we could) Iran Syria AND Iraq. We’d have to use large scale bombings, with the resultant very high civilian deaths, which would kill any and all support we might have in the world. Even England wouldn’t stand by us then.

I know the posibility of such a war is small, but if there’s any adminitration willing to casually play with the posibility it’s this one. They’re playing with matches in a puddle of gasoline.