Under the disturbing headline 'Why Bush Will Nuke Iran', Paul Craig Roberts writes in antiwar.com that the administration will do so because it is the only way the neocons believe they can rescue their goal of U.S. (and Israeli) hegemony in the Middle East.
I'd like to think it's all hyperbole, but it's all too possible with the lunatics in charge. “It is astounding that such dangerous fanatics have control of the U.S. government," Roberts says, "and have no organized opposition in American politics.”
Roberts is always worth reading:
http://www.antiwar.com/roberts/?articleid=9749
Meanwhile, at smirkingchimp.com, Mike Whitney has a trenchant take on our idiot in chief:
"What makes Bush original is that he is the first purely synthetic president we’ve ever had. There’s not a trace of the real man left. He is a mixture of mythic cowboy legend and the Old Testament “fire-n-brimstone” preacher-man, a John Brown-Ronald Reagan hybrid. The draft-dodging, hard-guzzling, cheerleader has been transformed into a sanctimonious, war-mongering American Samurai resolving the planet’s problems with just two “common sense” solutions; war and tax cuts."
And then there is a lovely image at rense.com -- a group portrait of Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld surrounded by the words: "Just Say No to Thugs."