No one has accused the current Regime of originality. If a trick works once use it again. When Lyndon Johnson wanted to take America to war against North Vietnam he used a trumped up confrontation between US Navy warships and North Vietnamese patrol boats in the Gulf of Tonkin to stampede Congress into giving him authority to wage war. The Charlatan almost got his version of Tonkin handed to him in January when Iranian patrol boats brazenly approached Navy vessels in the Persian Gulf. According to Centcom staff officers, the American naval commander was going to fire on the Iranians when then Centcom commander, Admiral William Fallon intervened and told him not to do so. Fallon's diffusion of the tense encounter infuriated the Charlatan. The admiral retired abruptly in March. The Regime's all-purpose hero, Gen. David Petraeus, was recently designated to replace Admiral Fallon whose disdain for the Iraq invasion was too well known in Washington.
The near miss of three wars going at once has not stopped the petro-imperialists in the bunker from launching a covert war effort against Iran. According to journalist Alexander Cockburn, the Regime received bipartisan approval from congressional intelligence committees for a first installment of $300 million to launch the effort against Iran and it's interests in the Middle East. According to sources quoted by Cockburn, the scope of the presidential finding authorizing the espionage is "unprecedented", and covers all types of covert action including assassination of targeted officials. Once again American will be financially supporting some unsavory and radical partners such as the Mujahedin-e Khalq (MEK), an Iranian opposition group that has made the State Department's list of terrorist organizations (1997), Iranian Kurdish nationalists, and the Sunni militia Jundallah that operates across the border in Afghanistan. What unintended consequences--"blowback" in the parlance of the espionage trade--will occur from our nation's support of these lawless tribal and sectarian rebels remains to be experienced. To judge by the blowback from our support of the Baathist party in Iraq and the mujaheddin in Afghanistan, consequences once they arrive will not be good.
More: Scott Ritter, former UN weapons inspector, said in an interview that an aerial attack on the Iran's Revolutionary Guard command and control structure is a "virtual guarantee" in the near term. The claim was routinely denied by the Pentagon. Ritter also maintains that the Syrian facility recently attacked by the Israeli Air Force was probably a very small research reactor that could not have produced weapons grade uranium or plutonium. After the attack US intelligence found no radiation signatures that indicated the presence of these materials.