[mburbank]

In todays news, Outgoing Patsy Colin Powell says the Iranians are hell bent on making nuclear weapons, shaking up serious attempts on the part of the EU to make some progress on the matter, something we've been unable to do.

An Iranian exile group says they have proof Iran is making WMD and could tell us where, it's a slam dunk case.

The terrifying things is this is way more likely to be true than it was in the case of Iraq, but our credability is, shall we say, somewhat weaker than it once was on this front.

Iran can look at the map and realize strategically a US use of force against them would be beyond foolhardy, but then they already know our president is not only beyond foolhardy, he's so insulated no one will show him a map and point out we're currently in no position to invade Iraq unless our current plan is simply to turn the mid east into one very large anarchy zone.

He'd be an idiot, right? But he's already stated he won't allow Iran to get nukes, AND that they are determined to get them. And it's not as if we could tolerate Iran having nukes, since they DO in fact have a history of actively supplying major terror networks. Kind of makes you wish we'd saved our credibility and army for Iran instead of waging a pointless vendetta in Iraq, but it's too late for that.

Brinksmanship, baby. Any guesses as to how this will all play out? I was kind of hoping for a day or two their we might let the EU at least try to sort things out since we don't have the money, people, credability or skill to do it. Not that I think the EU could do much better just that they have snowballs cahnce in hell which is statistically better than our chances right now.