Can it happen?

There's been a steady drumbeat from this gang of incompetents in the Bush administration, and it's eerily reminiscent of their PR push to get us to support their little adventure in Iraq. Only this time, the beligerant talk and saber-rattling is directed at Iran. The whacked out right are now making the effort to vilify and make Iranian leaders into cartoon evil-doers, as well as ginning up the fear campaign by dropping dire warnings that Iran is our "greatest challenge" and biggest boogie-man on the planet.

I don't like the sounds of this at all. First of all, Iran isn't close to our biggest threat (Bush is, but that's another story) And secondly, with Bush's poll numbers cratering and down to the mid-30's, if history is any guide, Rove will be pushing the boy king to gin up some good old fashioned war to save his political skin.

These folks are not above sacrificing a few thousand lives of Americans to hold on to power and expand it for themselves and a small group of financial elites.

But this talk about Iran and the fact that the neo-cons are already talking about military action if Iran doesn't knuckle under to our mostly unreasonable demands (think the run up to Iraq) doesn't exactly make me feel too confident that these disasters would have the sense to resist pushing even harder to start WWIII.

Evidently things aren't going too well in the "Long War" as they've sickeningly taken to calling the Iraq bungle, and the military/right wing/corporate axis is looking around for some more action.

But I have a feeling if these fools would ever actually use force against Iran, Iraq would look like the cakewalk we were all promised it would be what seems like so long ago.

Keep your eyes and ears on this one. I simply can't believe they'd be serious about starting a war with Iran, but these guys aren't rational. They've proven that by repeatedly doing things that no one would ever dream they'd actually do.

Let's pray this new belligerence towards Iran doesn't turn out to be another.