Run Up To Tehran

Possibly - we're certainly getting more vocal about Iran's involvement in Iraq.

And Ace has the story on the now public March bust of an Hezbollah Operative who is pointing fingers at Tehran. Multiple links at Ace's.

Comments

[IslamoLlama]

Haven't we been getting more vocal about Iran for the last year and a half? Are we finally turning a corner on Iranian involvement? Should we expect to be bombing Iran in six more months? Do we super really for sure have a lead on those Iranian WMDs? I can practically mark my calender by administration talking points.

I mean, Groundhogs Day? Again?

[Fred Beloit]

This poor souls is in DD (deep denial). Its OK, everything will be alright if you just ignore, you know, them. They won't hurt you at all, unless you try to defend yourself.

[Fred Beloit]

When they come and get you, just read the video script and they might not saw off your head.

[IslamoLlama]

"They won't hurt you at all, unless you try to defend yourself."

Hey, don't tell it to me, tell it to the wartime President who's been all talk and no bombs-away for what seems like ages now. Why hasn't Bush pulled the trigger yet? Perhaps the Democrats scare him more than a nukular Tehran.

[templar knight]

Fred, you could hardly expect an idiot who has Islamo in his nick to criticize his allies, or worse, those he thinks are his allies. He reminds me of the guy in Spain who invited the Muslims to help him avenge his daughter's honor. They conquered the whole of Spain, much of France, killed and enslaved millions, and didn't leave for 800 years, and then only when forced to.

[Purple Avenger]

"Why hasn't Bush pulled the trigger yet?"

Because the mullahs have been busily constructing an internal dynamic that might topple them without much help on our part?

Free is always the right price.

[Phoenix]

Right, PA. We have a few CIA operatives helping out, as well. They're in disguise as mullahs.

Actually, they're probably indisguise as students, and it's likely to work. And don't think the Kidon isn't in there working up a storm.

[rwilymz]

"tell it to the wartime President who's been all talk and no bombs-away for what seems like ages now."

A coupla things:
1] the guy who's CinCed two outright land wars is being called "all talk"?
2] there's a difference between Iraq and Iran [and NKorea, for that matter, as well]: Iraq was very clearly in violation of a cease fire and therefore subject to armed enforcement; Iran is not. That would be a legitimate "pre-emption"

"Why hasn't Bush pulled the trigger yet?"

See above. See also later reponses. Iran was, for a century, a western-style society, and they've had their luxuries and materialisms shelved by self-righteous anal-retentives. Some estimates consider less than a quarter of Iran's population to be even luke-warm to their "islamic revolution".

In many ways, the fall of the Soviet empire was as much due to rock-n-roll and western blue jeans as it was the fiscal strains of keeping up with Star Wars. One worked on the government, the other on the people. Well, Revlon and Miami Ink are likely conspirators in taking down the Grand Ayatollahs and their political mouthpieces.

"Perhaps the Democrats scare him more than a nukular Tehran"

Right. World politics revolves around US partisanship.