Remember this: "roll out the war drums in the week after Labor day?"

[lumberjack_jeff]

http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/georgepacker/2007/08/if-there-were-a.html

They have “instructions” (yes, that was the word used) from the Office of the Vice-President to roll out a campaign for war with Iran in the week after Labor Day; it will be coordinated with the American Enterprise Institute, the Wall Street Journal, the Weekly Standard, Commentary, Fox, and the usual suspects. It will be heavy sustained assault on the airwaves, designed to knock public sentiment into a position from which a war can be maintained. Evidently they don’t think they’ll ever get majority support for this—they want something like 35-40 percent support, which in their book is “plenty.”

Now there's this from Bill Kristol. http://www.weeklystandard.com/Content/Public/Articles/000/000/014/061vrvwi.asp

It's great that the military is having success in capturing "affiliates" of the Iranian Revolutionary Guards in

Iraq. But it's also clear from this statement that the training of the terrorists is being done in Iran: "..the transportation of multiple Iraqis to Iran for terrorist training at IRGC-QF training camps." A senior administration official last week discounted to me the importance of going after such targets in Iran--while not denying they exist and that we know where they are. The explanation wasn't convincing at the time. In light of this fresh evidence, and in light of the fact that the Iranians have been shelling targets in Kurdistan, in northern Iraq, that they claim are supporting violence in Iran, one has to ask: "Why are terror training camps in Iran, camps that are directly training terrorists to attack U.S. troops, off limits?" After all, if Khameini (to whom the IRGC reports) has already established the principle of cross-border attacks against accelerators of violence, who are we to disagree with the wisdom of the Supreme Leader?

[TwilightGardener]

1. William the Bloody is kicking into high gear.