[Dog]

I agree....but do you see anything happening before the election. I don't. I think we consolidate in Iraq....retool our forces then launch Phase III in January of next year.

[P.O.E.]

I don't think this year, either. Spadework may be underway, but we'd have heard more trial-ballooning by now. Plus, in Iran, there's the internal situation which I think is being allowed to unfold further.

[bert]

.....I don't.....

I get Dr Zin's daily Iran ping and feel certain that the plan is to cut the rottren fruit from the vine after it has decayed from within. I conclude that our forces have been surreptiously at work for a very long time in Iran and there could be very amazing results very quickly. The political power structure is failing as we type.