it's the regime change, stupid.

* arkin:

"As I've said before in these pages, I don't believe that the United States is planning to imminently attack Iran, and I specifically don't think so because Iran doesn't have nuclear weapons and it hasn't lashed out militarily against anyone.
But the United States military is really, really getting ready, building war plans and options, studying maps, shifting its thinking."

jeebus. arkin doesn't get it. attacking iran has nothing to do with the nuclear program.

here's Hersh yesterday:

"... the whole issue is really predicated on a belief that we've got to get rid of these ruling clerics and replace it with Bush's idea, that he thinks he's still pushing very hard, which is of a democratic Middle East."

i suspect that democracy has nothing to do with it either. it's the regime change, stupid.