Just in case you weren't sure that 21,000 extra troops in Iraq weren't enough escalation, think again. This article by a retired airforce colonel posted at globalresearch.ca seems to indicate that Washington is putting the pieces in place for a coming attack on Iran. Even without the Global Research editorializing, the article draws attention to developments which are certainly cause for concern.

The question is, what do we do about it?

Iran has the most secular, pro-western society in the Middle East.
The mullahs are gradually losing their base. Ahmadinejad is only popular for standing up against the west, and, as the recent public protests and local elections showed (yes, they have protests and elections in Iran!), he is even losing that support as the people want him to stop distracting them with foreign provocations. The Holocaust conference was a joke, and apparently nobody in Iran cared about it much at all. Intelligence services have found no evidence of a military nuclear program in Iran. So what is our policy? Move military forces closer to Iran!

Does Bush really believe that the Iranian people would greet regime change through an American strike, that they wouldn't rally around national pride, mullahs or no mullahs?

Listen to Scott Ritter and Seymour Hersh talk about the coming war with Iran on the 21 December, 2006 program at democracynow.org. Ritter's comments about the total void of any "good news" from Iran in the American media since 1979 is especially insiteful.

I am not so certain there will be war as Scott Ritter is, but Bush is certainly capable of such a move and we already know from experience that congress would do nothing to prevent it.

Merry Christmas.