Now he's planning all-out war with Iran:
U.S. contingency planning for military action against Iran's nuclear program goes beyond limited strikes and would effectively unleash a war against the country, a former U.S. intelligence analyst said on Friday.
"I've seen some of the planning ... You're not talking about a surgical strike," said Wayne White, who was a top Middle East analyst for the State Department's bureau of intelligence and research until March 2005.
"You're talking about a war against Iran" that likely would destabilize the Middle East for years, White told the Middle East Policy Council, a Washington think tank.
"We're not talking about just surgical strikes against an array of targets inside Iran. We're talking about clearing a path to the targets" by taking out much of the Iranian Air Force, Kilo submarines, anti-ship missiles that could target commerce or U.S. warships in the Gulf, and maybe even Iran's ballistic missile capability, White said.
"I'm much more worried about the consequences of a U.S. or Israeli attack against Iran's nuclear infrastructure," which would prompt vigorous Iranian retaliation, he said, than civil war in Iraq, which could be confined to that country.
President George W. Bush has stressed he is seeking a diplomatic solution to the dispute over Iran's nuclear program.
How can he say he's seeking a diplomatic solution when he won't go to the negotiation table; when he refuses to talk to anyone he deems his "enemy"?
It's time for the Democrats to stop noodling around the edges of a president who believes himself accountable to no one; who believes he, "the decider" is the law, is the state, is the military.
It's time to introduce the articles of impeachment in the House. And if Republicans in the Senate can just put their country ahead of their careers for five minutes, they'll join with patriotic Democrats, convict this guy and send him back to Crawford.
The world can't wait.
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