Predictions for 2007

[mburbank]

8.) US and Israeli special forces will make small forays into Iran, attempting to provoke an incident. The Iranis will take the bait. Israel will bomb Iran everywhere they think they might have anything to do with their Nuclear program. We might wait until Iraq retaliates, or we might act preemptively against retaliation, but in any case we bomb the crap out of Iran and for good measure we throw in Syria whom we accuse of collaborating with Iran. Hugely widening the Middle East war and expanding the zone of chaos, all questions of withdrawl from Iraq become moot and we are drawn far more deeply into a state of perpetual war, guaranteeing vastly increased Presidential powers and reinvigoarating the sate of fear W found so condussive to governing.