So let's bomb a different country. Hey, it worked out so well before.

[kpete]

And anyway, if that's the real rationale, get ready for the Pakistan invasion:

A 178-page summary of the U.S. intelligence community’s “black budget” shows that the United States has ramped up its surveillance of Pakistan’s nuclear arms, cites previously undisclosed concerns about biological and chemical sites there, and details efforts to assess the loyalties of counter­terrorism sources recruited by the CIA.

Pakistan appears at the top of charts listing critical U.S. intelligence gaps. It is named as a target of newly formed analytic cells. And fears about the security of its nuclear program are so pervasive that a budget section on containing the spread of illicit weapons divides the world into two categories: Pakistan and everybody else.


MORE:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/top-secret-us-intelligence-files-show-new-levels-of-distrust-of-pakistan/2013/09/02/e19d03c2-11bf-11e3-b630-36617ca6640f_story.html

http://digbysblog.blogspot.com/2013/09/the-worst-argument-for-syrian.html



while we continue to count countries to terrorize:



http://www.salon.com/2007/10/12/wesley_clark/


edit to add (i have been in a mood lately) my mho:

[Link Speed]

1. "If 'they' mess up Iraq"?

Well, Rummy, we seem to have done a damn fine job of that all by ourselves.