Twenty Seven Months

You all recall the Hon. Mohammend ElBaradei, Director of the much respected International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) and co-recipient, with the IAEA, of the 2004 Nobel Peace Prize. Oh, how we loved him as he stood against the madness and vilification of the Bush Administration in the run-up to Iraq.

Well, now Mr. ElBaradei and the IAEA say that Iran will be nuclear weapons capable in twenty seven months, according to The Independent.

It will be March of 2008, the fifth anniversary of the wildly successful invasion of Iraq. George W. Bush, absent a successful impeachment trial over wiretapping (or something) will still be President. The State Department will be continuing its long-standing campaign to brand Iran as a state sponsor of terrorism, getting little help from anyone other than Tony Blair.

Iran will, presumably, still be in the grip of the hardest of Islamic hardliners who is unable to contain his hatred for Israel, even while very sensitive talks about Iran's nuclear program are pending.

Will George Bush, who, you will recall, is widely reported to believe his Adminstration's rhetoric, allow "the world's worst weapons" to be acquired by a state that hates us, hates Israel and "sponsors terror" ? He already went to war on these issues based on evidence so thin as to be illusory. This time ElBaradei is on his side.

Keep in mind that we (that's the United States for our foreign readers) have already announced our willingness to use a preemptive nuclear strike to protect ourselves from terror attack.

So, what'll it be ? A repeat of Israel's 1981 Osirak attack on Saddam's nuclear reactor (already being promoted by Israeli hawks) ? A duplicate, but executed by U.S. forces ? An oxymoronic surgical nuclear strike ?

Don'f forget we will also still be struggling to protect the fledgling Iraqi democracy against Iranian overreaching.

March 2008. Get your tickets now.

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