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The Bushies would love for Israel to attack Iran, so that they wouldn't be seen
to have initiated the fight that Dick Cheney so desperately wants to start before
he leaves for Dubai. Maybe he wants his house on Kish to be free from repossession
risk, who knows?

But Israel isn't going to attack Iran just to satisfy some macho whim on the part
of Cheneybush. They live there, and they know full well the consequences of such
an action. Israel only attacks if they perceive an immediate threat, which Iran is
not. If they have solid reasons to believe that Iran is about to nuke Tel Aviv, they
will not wait to consult us about what they are going to do about it. They'll tell us
ten seconds before their bomb hits if we're lucky. If not, then they'll make noises
about how dangerous Iran is, how nuts Ahmadi Nejad is, etc etc. They'll then let us
decide if we want to fuck up our foreign relations further and hope we do the job
for them.

Knowing how guys like Karl Rove think, it wouldn't surprise me in the slightest to
hear that this whole hysteria is part of a propaganda plan to keep "national security"
in the headlines to help out an otherwise floundering McCain campaign. How's THAT for
a conspiracy theory?