Bush keeps saying he's not down for an Iran Attack but then he keeps talking about the fact that Iran is making things worse in Iraq. Well, despite the fact that it is America making things worse in Iraq, the way King George phrases it, I'm thinking more and more that he's actually going to be dumb enough to do it again--attack a country that is no direct threat to us.
Here's why I think this:
Pelosi and others have been saying that Bush doesn't have the authority to attack Iran. Anyone notice that Bush says he'll do whatever he has to in order to protect American troops in Iraq?
He's making the case that Iran is a threat to The troops, suggesting the logic that an Iran Attack wouldn't be about getting at Iran, it would be about protecting the troops. Therefore he wouldn't need permission from Congress to wage another war.
I've heard people say that an Iran Attack can't happen because we just don't have the troops and the US Army is already stretched too thin as it is. However, our Navy isn't. There are two US Navy carrier groups (longhand for two aircraft carriers and a small stack of battleships that often travel with them). These boats are capable of launching car-sized projectiles well inland. Air strikes can also be launched from the carriers.
Oh yeah, and I heard a rumor yesterday that the US was sending a third carrier group there soon.
Something tells me that all that firepower wasn't put in the Gulf to go after death squads in Sadr City...
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