How Close are we to Bush bombing Iran?

[brettdale]

Three Months?
Six Months?
12 Months?
18 Months?

He wont do it?

[illinoisprogressive]

1. No one knows. but many feel Bush will do this before he leaves as his

historical legacy. He thinks he is really 'protecting' us. Like I want a hair trigger idiot to protect this country...

[Kelly Rupert]

2. He won't do it.

If he pushes the button, the Dems will too. He bombs Iran, and we cut off funding for the war. He knows it. He's immature, but not irrational.

[Postman]

4. Who are you kidding? Not irrational? Have you seen Iraq lately?

n/t

[Kelly Rupert]

7. Incompetence and irrationality are different.

Bush generally seems to have an idea of what he wants to have happen, and a somewhat-reasonable explanation for why that would be a good thing. He also usually has a plan that, if you didn't bother thinking very long about it, would seem like an excellent idea. However, he has absolutely no ability to execute any plan whatsoever. Moreover, his plans are usually critically, fundamentally flawed in ways that you wouldn't see from the bubble he keeps himself in. It's not like he's a crazy guy running around barking batshit orders. He's simply a thoroughly incompetent leader.

[walldude]

19. "It's not like he's a crazy guy running around barking batshit orders"

Tell that to the guys in Iraq getting shot at. And the 20,000 that are heading that way...

[Ignacio Upton]

17. Plus, oil prices will skyrocket

And I don't think they'll come back down in time for Election 2008.

[Junkdrawer]

3. Could be days...but it will not be Bush bombing unprovoked....

There will be an "incident" that demands a "strong response".

[Postman]

6. Didn't the Iranians plant the cartoon "bombs" in Boston?

n/t

[kenny blankenship]

11. excellent point. we can't let them get away with that shit.

[Ignacio Upton]

18. I've heard that Meatwad is an Iranian double agent!

[Leopolds Ghost]

21. On the Moon, we do not care about freedom and democracy! We Just Want Your Oil!

Step aside, USA-Man!

Or I will destroy 1,000 deady, deadly instrumentation panels displaying my visage.

[MadMaddie]

5. If he remains in power, I give him 1-2 months.

The release of supposed information tying Iran to the Killing of five our soldiers....

Eerily reminencent of the suspicious nuke tubes supposedly used by Saddam..

This administration is using the same roadmap they used for Iraq...change the last letter to "n" check

Claim Iran attacked our soldiers-check

Move ships into Gulf check.....


Oh uninteneded consequences, "No one ever thought that the plans wouldn't work out so there is no plan b) check...

[Faygo Kid]

8. The carriers are there, the rhetoric is the same. Why do people doubt him striking?

You have the timing right - I say before the end of March, an air strike. Tough to maintain two carrier groups in a state of readiness in the Gulf indefinitely, and that's what he has positioned there. Keith Olbermann showed tonight how the rhetoric is the same. Why, he asked, is it the same rhetoric and playbook as that for Iraq? Because it worked. Sometimes we overcomplicate things. Bush is many things, but unpredictable is really not one of them. Just like Hitler spelled out what he would do in Mein Kampf, Bush spells out in his rhetoric (see the "ownership society."). And yet we doubt it, even after six years of it.

[mmonk]

23. They doubt him striking because

they project their rationality onto him.

[UTUSN]

9. Is that in "working hours"? n/t

[MadMaddie]

12. Well that's a good point...cause we know that * doesn't work

full day's so that would be about 4-5 hours a day which would mean within the next month. sigh...

[roamer65]

10. By the end of March.

[Recursion]

13. 3 days before Iran opens an oil bourse selling in Euros.

Why do you think they keep putting it off? They know as well as we do what's going to happen.

[necso]

14. My guess is after the

60 days -- but before any (nuclear-power) fueling event. (However, an "incident" could cause an attack to happen rather sooner, even if the preparations aren't complete -- it's a neocon* pipe-dream anyway.)

Some influential players want Iran to have neither enrichment-capabilities -- nor nuclear power. (Iran in any way letting the two be linked is a very grave strategic-mistake.)

*: The neocon "philosophy" is effectively a contagious, cultural mental-illness.

[Decruiter]

15. Not long...

[piedmont]

16. I like the new verb you just created..."Bush-bomb"

1. to start a war on the other side of the globe for reasons which may be changed up to a dozen times after the fact
2. to err in a particularly egregious manner
3. to create a mess or catastrophe in the knowledge that someone else will be forced to clean it up.

[The Anti-Neo Con]

20. It's not going to happen. n/t

[TZ]

22. Pretty soon because..

I smell a rat with this all of a sudden need to put oil in the stategic oil reserves. Iran is A huge
oil producer and Chimpy knows that when he invades/bomb Iran it might be awhile before him and his soul brother (Exxon-Mobil) can get their hands on it, so to avoid looking EVEN worse he makes sure we have extra oil:scared:

[noonwitch]

24. I think he'll get the israelis to do it

I have no problem with that, as long as he backs them at the UN, afterwards.

Iran having a nuke is a direct threat to Israel. Their leader has stated he'd like to wipe Israel off the map, after all.

[Rosemary2205]

25. I doubt Bush is the decider on this

it's up to Rumsfeld (the unpaid consultant hahahahaha) and Cheney.

This cabal is way to unpredictable to guess what they'll do next. IMHO.