Sleepwalking towards war - with IRAN

[earth_as_one]

I came across this, thought I would add it to this string:

Zaman (Turkish News Source)

As Iraq suffers, all eyes are turning to Iran Markets are getting antsy again about the possibility of a US strike against Iran. Oil, which had been cruising steadily towards the sub-dollars 50 a barrel range, has climbed again, in part on fears that a new war in the Middle East is brewing. The jitters have not affected currencies, equities or interest rates yet, but you can be sure they will follow if the present level of tension rises.
Even as investors consider their positions ahead of a deepening crisis, there is a general air of incredulity that the US might be thinking along military lines. Given the debacle in Iraq, isn't it unimaginable that America would open a second front in a hostile region? It is important to remember that whatever is being contemplated for Iran in the recesses of the Pentagon is not even close to a rerun of the Iraq war - which, of course, has gone so swimmingly. No one in his right mind is thinking about an invasion; targeted strikes against nuclear facilities are a different matter, however.
There have been clear indications of late that the White House plans to bring the issue to a head in the next year or so. The deployment of....

http://www.todayszaman.com/tz-web/detaylar.do?load=detay&link=102110

worth considering....

 

[darkbeaver]

Thanks for the link and the good little read, the author and many others give bush credit for the decisions I don't think that's resonable to assume given the dummys obvious shortfalls, he gets his orders from wall street. He is not the decider.:wave: