Reply #24: No, but . . .

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Do you suppose it's out of the realm of possibility that the Bush administration will use these student protests as a pretext for an invasion of Iran? The Bushies don't give a flying fig about the human rights of anyone, anywhere, but it would be very much in character for them to suddenly claim to be all sorts of concerned about the rights of Iranian dissenters and the repression they face under the current Iranian regime as a basis for lobbying for a few bombing runs. It's quite apparent that the Bush administration has tried to provoke or synthesize a cross-border incident with Iran for some months, but the Iranians have so far resisted the invitation to war.