War in October? Bush positions strike group in Gulf prior to midterm elections

Geov Parrish

...And, so, I've been holding out the vain hope that the Bush administration is incapable of launching a new war against Iran. How can we nuke Mahmoud Ahmadinejad when most Americans can neither spell not pronounce his name? The Prince of Darkness has many names, but most roll easily off the tongue. Increasingly, however, it appears Bush is going to launch a new war anyway, an illegal war, not authorized by Congress, against a threat that does not exist, overseen by a man born immune to American pop culture ridicule. Last week, two ominous developments suggested a military strike, and the inevitable region-wide conflagration that will follow, may well happen before the November 7 elections...

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