…mere days away from bombing Iran.

All this bedwetting and scaremongering over a report (PDF) from a Brit think-tank that says Amreica “has the capacity for and may be prepared to launch without warning a massive assault on Iranian uranium enrichment facilities, as well as government buildings and infrastructure, using long-range bombers and missiles.”

Raise your hands if you’re shocked or suprised to learn that we have the capacity to launch a massive assault with bombers and missiles. Good…you’ve all seen Dr. Strangelove. As far as “may be prepared to launch” — well, I may be prepared to assume the throne of Norway.

Henley uses the analysis by a reporter of the occasion of the publication of a book by a neo-con to back up the latest Action Alert! The analysis is highly recommended, if you like convoluted theorizing and you’ve read all the latest updates on the grassy knoll and Umbrella Man.

Me, I’m beginning to think these folks have a quarterly reminder set on their Google calendar to start pissing their panties about bombing Iran. And let’s not forget that Seymour Hersch has been pushing this unsourced bullshit since January of 2005. And what’s happened? Merely diplomacy — jaw-jaw, not war-war. What the scaremongers say they want. What, really, most everybody wants. Yet, like clockwork, we get the syncopated outrage at the imminent bombing of Iran by the United States of Neocons. It’s getting kind of tiresome, so I guess I should stop reading it, huh?