Lock & Load!! (Here we go again...)

[Edit From 6/29/2007: Well, given that two months have passed and we haven't attacked Iran yet, I'd say that either the article I based this on was wrong or our government saw the intelligence leak and decided to pretend like they never had this plan in the first place. I'm kind of embarrassed about this post, actually. It makes me look like some conspiracy weirdo when I'm totally not, though my readers (all one and a half of you) don't know this because they haven't met me. I've decided to leave this post in place if for no other reason than to remind me of where I've been. Thanks for understanding that I'm no conspiracy weirdo. ;-) Have a pleasant weekend.]

Today a friend sent me a rather disturbing email as a follow-up to a conversation the two of us had back in January with regards to the potential for a war with Iran.

To give you some background, a friend of his is a former WMD (Weapons of Mass Destruction) adviser to President George W. Bush's cabinet and was privy to the top secret information proving the existence of WMD's in Iraq prior to the invasion (He insists that the weapons were there... maybe not in a complete weapons form, but they most definitely were in production within mobile truck-based labs... anyhow I digress). I say this because the dude is a genius and really knows what he's talking about. Anyhow, that friend now lives down in the Louisiana bayou noticed a few months back that our military had begun to refill their tactical fuel reserves. These reserves give our military machine the capability to operate free from domestic fuel supply constraints for 6 months.

Given the global political climate at the time, and his deeper knowledge of the US.-Iran tensions, he was pretty confident that we'd be at war with Iran in 3 months. Well, that three months has come and frighteningly it appears that he was right. Our government has plans to launch a surprise attack on Iran this coming Friday with the end goal of crippling their military and setting their nuclear weapons research back by several years. Russian Intelligence got wind of the planned attack and has released some details to the public. Apparently this whole issue is really big news in Europe but has largely been ignored by media on our side of the water.

The problem with this is that an attack of this nature, without congressional approval, is illegal and unconstitutional. Iraq war comparisons and analogies aside, this is one war that we cannot afford to have happen. Very few countries (if any) have won a two-front war--and we're about to open a third. If this does in fact go down, I for one, for the first time, will find myself among the war protesters downtown. We must not go to war with Iran without congressional approval--at least until we're done in Iraq and Afghanistan. ;-) Stand up and resist this war. (Wow, I sound like a hippie... boy... we'll have to fix that)