THE DREAM THAT MIGHT COME TRUE:

Leading Senator Assails President Over Iran Stance (MARK MAZZETTI, 1/20/07, NY Times)

The new chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee on Friday sharply criticized the Bush administration's increasingly combative stance toward Iran, saying that White House efforts to portray it as a growing threat are uncomfortably reminiscent of rhetoric about Iraq before the American invasion of 2003.

He's the President. They're a foe. It's his job to manufacture a pretext for war. Memo to Iranian Navy: avoid the Gulf of Tonkin....

Posted by Orrin Judd at January 20, 2007 9:05 AM