Looks like they're being fooled by the MSM, too.
That's why th MSM are biggest war mongers: by making iberal democracies and especially the United States look weaker than they are they invite further armed conflict.
Any threatening concentration of Iranian forces will be annihilated. The real danger is an attempted Sadrist revolt inside Iraq combined with a renewed Baath offensive in the Sunni triangle supported by Syria.
This article illustrates one of the more serious problems with a media so partisan...and ignorant.
In trying to undermine the Bush administration, they give thugocracies the world over the impression that the President is politically crippled and has no domestic support. Thus, they encourage adventurism and paint a bull's eye on all Americans.
The problem is not unique to the American MSM, either. The BBC, AFP and other international media are busy creating an atmosphere full of misconception that has an opportunity to explode on all of us.
I'm tempted to cite "Lord forgive them, for they know not what they do". But, sometimes, I sense they are literally asking for it!