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Well, I've been known to predict an attack on Iran before and I was wrong, so it may well be that now I feel like it won't happen, I'll be wrong again.

Still, there was an optimum political moment for attacking Iran and that has passed. It may be that Cheney and Bush, not running for re-election will throw aside all popularity concerns, but I have the feeling that if they were that ruthless and efficiently focused on their goals, Iran would already have been attacked by now...

by Metatone (metatone [a|t] gmail (dot) com) on Mon Jul 23rd, 2007 at 11:28:53 AM EST
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Well, I thought the attack would have been last year's October Surprise, too.

Can the last politician to go out the revolving door please turn the lights off?
by Migeru (migeru at eurotrib dot com) on Mon Jul 23rd, 2007 at 11:33:31 AM EST
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one is that they are still pushing for it - that's undoubtedly happening, and the other one is whether it will happen - the jury is still out, obviously. Thankfully, there are obstacle, not the least that the US Army would be unlikely to go along (the Air Force is an open question though), and that the Chinese have probably warned of dire consequences.

In the long run, we're all dead. John Maynard Keynes
by Jerome a Paris (etg@eurotrib.com) on Mon Jul 23rd, 2007 at 11:38:15 AM EST
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