Weigh in-- Is Bush going to strike Iran?

[mburbank]

It looks to me like he is. Our troops have been given the ready to deploy order, for I think Oct. 1'st. Now that doesn't mean they will, but it's the first step. Maybe it's a negotiating tool.

But I think W. thinks this is something he has to do, and only he can do.

What do you all think, on two points? Would he, and should he?

I think he would. I think he shouldn't, for a host of reasons. I don't see a way anything good could come out of it. I think the costs are beyond outrageous, and since we don't even know where all there nuke programs are, how deeply they are burried, and how many times we'd have to bomb a hardened underground site to totally take it out, the excercise at best sets the program back a few years. I also think America has pretty much expended every ounce of good will it can count on from the it's traditional allies. As far as non traditional allies goes, Muschariff sating that we threatened to bomb him back to the stone age if he didn't become an allie... not helping.