Reply #94: Wishful thinking, Mr. Pitt.

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The war with Iran is already underway. If it's not going to happen, why did we arrest Iran's consular staff in Erbil? Why are we sending Patriot missiles to Iraq? Why did Bush appoint a Navy aviator to be the new commander of CENTCOM? And why did Bush use his Iraq escalation speech to announce a new level of U.S. military aggression against Iran and Syria? Sy Hersh has been screaming the Iran scenario from the rooftops for months--his Pentagon sources have gone into considerable detail about the extraordinary degree of planning--and controversy--within the military regarding Iran. When has Sy Hersh been wrong about a major story? No, I think the plan is to try to provoke a military response from Iran, and then use that response as cover for a major air campaign against Iran's nuclear program. That's been the plan for months now, in fact. To suggest that Bush won't move because he lacks cover is to underestimate the degree of his megalomania, if you ask me. I think our best hope is that Iran will refuse to rise to the bait; their leaders seem relatively sane, compared to ours.