Is Bush rushing us to war with Syria and Iran.

[dogindia]

any ideas?

[Nimrod]

1. I'm guessing it's a foregone conclusion

How or when, I'm not sure but the little warmonger isn't done yet.

[The Backlash Cometh]

2. I see big problems for him if he tries to get out of his current problems

by wagging the dog to war. Not even the media believes him any more.

[Nimrod]

3. We'll have another "terrorist attack" soon

Not sure where, but it'll happen. It worked last time.

Then again, I'm a doomsayer. You should probably take my opinion with a grain of salt. :)

[mrdmk]

5. My crystal ball says, "Impeachment".

Thus I will make a bet the Bush Jr. Administration is stupid enough to do just that!

[borg5575]

4. It's Carl Rove's strategy.

It's how they plan on defeating Hillary in 2008. They will attack Iran and Syria just before the 2008 election.

[merbex]

6. 2006 elections; drumbeat for Iraq hit during midterm elections

just my prediction

[LdyGuique]

7. Well, he seems to be backing off a bit today

When Iran and Syria announced that they would act as a "united front" yesterday, this seemed to cause Lame Duck to back off a bit today.

The administration can posture all it likes, but it has few resources to really take on two more Islam-based countries without causing an entire explosion in the ME -- including a complete cessation of oil production.

We don't have sufficient manpower to effectively handle the rising counter-insurgency in Iraq. At this point, various news stories are citing the new supplemental funding request for Iraq/Afghanistan as saying that less than 5% of the necessary Iraqi forces have been trained. Rumsfeld even admitted today that these are "battle-hardened" people who will move into other countries.

Several major countries have been forming alliances to counter the US' foreign policies -- such as China, Russia, India, Venezuela, and Iran. Europe is taking notice. OUR stances are a direct cause and effect.

There is strong supposition that Israel is the only one who stood to gain from a clandestine bombing in Lebanon -- mostly to throw public blame and censor onto Syria. Syria stood little to gain over the bombing.

If the US bombs or invades either Iran or Syria, expect a worldwide uprising against it with a huge increase in terrorist-type attacks and a generalized mobilization of jihadists converging into the ME. Expect all OPEC nations to react strongly in order to serve their own interests as they are already on the firing line of jihadist groups. They will have to sever ties to the US or cut oil production to keep from falling into their own civil wars.

[Selatius]

8. I give it a 30 year timeframe, somewhere inside that period

It may not be a Bush in the White House that sets the ball into motion. Bush isn't the only corporatist or power-hungry would-be dictator to lust for power.

[Speck Tater]

9. It would be the beginning of the end for the US

We're aqlready over extended. That would be the straw that broke our economic back as well as destroying any shred of credibility we have left in the world.