I see a portrait emerging ... as Pentagon interest is focusing on Iran as the next "target" ...

Reports coming from both the Pentagon and (of all places) Fox News indicate that US officials are considering a military assault on Iran's Islamic regime. This, of course comes after the recent decision by Germany to withhold support for new sanctions against Tehran over its refusal to heed international calls to halt nuclear work. In trying to grasp the Middle Eastern crisis, as every thinking person knows, it is good to keep on eye on oil. The motives for Western actions in the Middle East have always had to do with oil.

"Mission Accomplished" hero, Air Force One Commander ... High Noon cowboy. All that's needed in the portrait are a few B-2 bombers and some nukes ...

Maybe those Presidential polls that show the Democrats winning in 2008 are a bit premature. A senior Bush administration official told Fox that "everyone in town" was discussing the costs and benefits of a military assault on Iran that was likely to unfold within the next eight to ten months, well before the November 2008 presidential elections.

The hanging of Saddam Hussein was only a prelude to Bush's final and lasting legacy--"the final solution," so to speak. Is it possible that the White House sees its place in history in the ultimate destruction of the Persian Empire (a.k.a. Iran and its leaders the Ayatollahs and Mahmoud Ahmadinejad)?