iraq exit strategy alleged

It's not quite true to say that there's no exit strategy for Iraq. It seems there is an exit strategy - it's an entry strategy to Iran. According to Reuters and Seymour Hersh in The New Yorker, a Pentagon panel has been created to plan a bombing attack on Iran that could be implemented within 24 hours of getting the go-ahead from George Bush.

It seems the panel initially focused on destroying Iran's nuclear facilities and on regime change (some people never learn). But the panel has more recently been directed to identify targets in Iran that may be involved in supplying or aiding militants in Iraq (do these shifting objectives remind you of anything?)

U.S. military and special-operations teams have allegedly already crossed the border from Iraq into Iran in pursuit of Iranian operatives.

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But here's the good news. The Sunday Times says that up to five U.S. generals and admirals are willing to resign rather than approve what they consider would be a reckless attack.

Even Pat Buchanan, the right-wing Christian fundamentalist who regularly stands for U.S. president said last month:

"Bush has no authority – in the Constitution, in the law or in morality – to launch a preemptive war on another nation that has not attacked us."

What kind of a world is it when the generals and extreme right fundamentalists are the voices of reason?

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Incidentally, Buchanan has always been an outspoken critic of the Iraq War, and warned in 2002 that if America launched a war in Iraq, it was their own empire that would end up destroyed.

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