Exactly! See the post below yours, that was being written while you were writing yours as I was getting coffee etc.
Personally, I do not see how we can possibly avoid direct military action in the case of Iran.
I am not convinced it can be avoided either. Perhaps that is what CONgress is trying to avoid with all their yammering, just days away from the national election in Iraq.
I feel President Bush would like to allow the Iranian people to have the honor of setting themselves free. I watch in awe at what the Iranian people have accomplished thus far.
They made a statement a while back, IIRC, that they did not need the USA or anyone else to do the work for them, they were capable of that. They wished only for support of their efforts.
Sorry, I am not impressed. The nuke drive marches on, the president is a complete whackjob, he has absolute power and is purging the slightest opposition, and they continue to actively support serious terrorism against both us and the Brits in Iraq. Meanwhile, the EU is limp and they have concluded we are bluffing. Russia is providing them SAMs meant to shoot down smart munitions aimed at their nuke sites, continues to flak for them diplomatically, and continues to support their naked drive for nukes. Just what have the Iranian people supposedly achieved that helps in the slightest with any of it? What pressure does their government feel? Not a thing. The Iranians have a better chance of changing our government - and installing defeatist Dems - than we have of overthrowing theirs.