I do think that there is an increasing chance of a trigger event driving a fast escalation of higher and higher consequence military options. This trigger could be a mistaken signal, a ship collision, an event engineered by the Israelis...-Steve Clemons, writing for TPMCafe, on the strong possibility that Dick Cheney might be behind the plan to create "an incident" with Iran before the end of the current presidential term.
Vice President Cheney felt it important to "tie the President's hands" when it came to Iran and to generate an event that would undermine the diplomatic track - the worry now is that the crowd in power is really talking about tying the next President's hands...tying perhaps Barack Obama's hands.
This really could be cooking -- and I think it's important for White House watchers to realize that the folks we thought had knocked back the neocons are themselves losing leverage again.
Obama and his team need to speak to this, to demystify it, and to make sure that America does not find itself tripping into an accidental war that really was no accident.
The U.S. Congress really should live up to their oath of office and follow the lead of Rep. Dennis Kucinich. Impeach these horrible people and charge them with international war crimes before it's too late!
