Get Ready For Iran

Make no mistake about it, this Administration is in the process of making a case to invade Iran.

(AFP)"We may face no greater challenge from a single country than from Iran," the White House said in a 49-page blueprint called "The National Security Strategy of the United States of America."

The report drew up a balance sheet of what it called US President George W. Bush's foreign policy successes and remaining "challenges" like bloody violence in Iraq and tense standoffs over nuclear programs in Iran and North Korea.

It also warned Russia that its ties with the West depend on democratic reforms, and urged China to embrace greater political freedom -- while saying that Washington will "hedge" for the possibility this does not happen.

As if Afghanistan and Iraq weren't enough. Now we have started the written and verbal threats with Iran, and their officials are trying to bait us with comments when, Ali Asghar Soltanieh, the chief Iranian delegate to the IAEA said, "Let the ball roll."