You know, I'm really not sure why this comes as any kind of surprise to me. Don't worry about all of those talks in Moscow folks, because as we speak the United States is getting ready for the next war that will make sure Bush can hold off elections "for our safety". First up, we find the United States rejecting any uranium enrichment by Iran, and saying the UN Security Council should take action unless Tehran makes an "about face" concerning its activities. The same United States who called the same United Nations inefficient when dealing with Iraq is now trying to get them to do something about Iran. And concerning the level of enrichment that appears to be going on? [State Department spokesman Tom Casey] told reporters: "You can't be just a little pregnant. You can't have the regime pursuing enrichment on any scale, because pursuing enrichment on any scale allows them to master the technology, complete the fuel cycle -- and then that technology can easily be applied to a clandestine program for making nuclear weapons." Okay, let's review the situation in Iran. They have 10-20 centrifuges for uranium enrichment. This is enough to make nuclear power. It would take a few thousand of these things many years to make weapons-grade uranium. But somehow they're going to daisy-chain these machines together to make weapons right under our noses. Oh sure, many of the machines aren't working right at this point, but the potential is there! No one's denying that Iran + nukes = trouble. That would be fairly foolish. What I'm saying is that we need to give Iran at least some leeway to see if their intentions are genuine. It takes years for thousands of centrifuges to make the uranium for a warhead, do the math on twenty of them. Now imagine that not all of them are working reliably. These guys are not going to be able to suddenly drop a nuke on our heads next week. If the number of centrifuges keeps going up or they refuse to let inspectors see what they're doing, then I see the need for recourse. What about Scotty McC? White House spokesman Scott McClellan complained that Iran continued to make provocative statements and take provocative actions, and said Tehran "can't be trusted" because it hid its programs for nearly two decades. Actions speak louder than words, and Iran is making actions and speaking words. But we can't trust them because of shady history? Wouldn't this very logic tell us that the UAE shouldn't be anywhere NEAR our ports? Oh, right, that would require the White House to show a shred of consistency. My bad. But don't worry, if they can't rally the necessary support just for that, an incredibly convenient story has appeared claiming that Iran is giving Iraqi insurgents weapons. "I think the evidence is strong that the Iranian government is making these IEDs, and the Iranian government is sending them across the border and they are killing U.S. troops once they get there," says Richard Clarke, former White House counterterrorism chief and an ABC News consultant. Of course! It's Iran. That's where all of the danger in Iraq is coming from. It's not Saudi Arabia, it's not Jordan, it's not even within Iraq itself. It's Iran. Not only that, but the weapons themselves are made with detonators that cannot be jammed and the explosions result in projectiles that our armor cannot stop! I guess that just leaves us with the option of air strikes, which is pretty handy because we're almost out of ground troops. I guess all we have to wait for now is Bush to use the powers Congress "gave him" to give himself an extension of his presidency so we don't change horses midstream. And then we'll hear about it on the news after it's all over and done with because everyone who even attempted to leak the information got put in jail. This truly is a Brave New World, this post-9/11 America.