Thought: Iran, which has clear links to Al Qaeda and Hezbollah (obviously) could be planning a joint operation with bin Ladin. The following scenarios, a) Assassination of the President (or some kind of catastrophic decapitation of the executive branch), or b) a massive terrorist attack on the economic and civil infrastructure of our country would provide Iran with the opportunity of invading Iraq and installing the Shiites in Baghdad.
This sounds outlandish only if we believe that Iran does NOT have nuclear capability or is on the verge of it. If we believe that Iran's posturing is indicative of their confidence in becoming a nuclear power, then the notion of testing medium range missiles, added to their sympathy and support towards al Qaeda and Hezbollah, make for an extremely volatile situation.
My conclusion is that we are going to see an Israeli air strike on Iran's nuclear facilities very soon. If there is another terrorist attack/assassination in the United States, I would expect an Israeli assault shortly thereafter. Iran is writing its own death warrant by pursuing nuclear capabilities. But they have to be hedging there position somehow. My guess is that they are going to employ a "pre-emptive" policy in coordination with Al Qaeda/Hezbollah and whip something up as the elections approach. Their only hope of salvaging their nuclear ambitions in the face of Israel is to plunge the region into chaos and force a pan-Islamic war on Israel...
My conclusion is that we are going to see an Israeli air strike on Iran's nuclear facilities very soon
See TM has you! Quayle said this as if he had an inside know