Hey...Look! A trove of secret inteligence reports!!!

USNews.com: The Baghdad files: A trove of secret intelligence reports spells out in chilling detail how Iraq's dangerous next-door neighbor is aiding the anti-U.S. insurgency there (11/22/04)

Well...There's the hook...Wonder if anybody takes the bait??


That was quick

Make no mistake, people: we are at war with Iran, a conflict that's very similar to our direct engagement of Chinese infantry and Russian pilots during the Korean War.

Yep...similar...Also similar to our use of Saddam as a proxy during Iran/Iraq v1.0, but personally I've lost track of the blowback quotient with these guys.

Iran's nuclear motivation hinges on the clearest possible avenues of self-interest:

A. Blackmailing the West into providing beneficial agreements (trade and otherwise) by threatening nuclear development.

B. The exponential increase in prestige provided by the eventual obtention of nuclear weapons. This includes an Islamic counterweight to Israeli nuclear dominance of the region, a guarantee against attempted external overthrow or conventional retaliation against acts of aggression (the Doctrine of Extended Deterrence), and a new solidification of fundamentalist authority at home.

C. The ultimate use of nuclear weapons on the United States or Israel via a terrorist proxy.

Okay. I give up. There's the mushroom cloud thingy. Where do I buy the war bonds????