The Dreyfuss Report via TomPaine: "Now imagine yourself to be an Iranian mullah, sitting in your obscurantist domain. Wouldn’t you be thinking: what can I do to stop George Bush from being reelected? You would. And what you would do, most likely, is try to meddle in Iraq, in a way calculated to weaken the American position there. Only, the real result of such meddling would be to create precisely the kind of showdown between the United States and Iran that the neocons want. They’ve been trying to provoke exactly that sort of crisis for months. 
 
Recently, I mentioned reports that Israel is busily planning an air force raid on Iran’s nuclear facilities. Mid-October sound like good timing to you?"