Item number one is the presence soon in the Gulf region of four carrier groups, three American and one British. That's a lot of firepower - a lot of firepower - all those thousands of cruise missiles said by Olmert to be needed (see below).
Item number two is the about to happen departure of Tony Blair as Prime Minister of Britain. This to me is the biggest clue. It suggests he knows what is coming, and wants to be out of office when it does, since he was already tarred with complicity in the 2003 invasion of Iraq. If he's on the outside, then he can be critical, thus maintaining the status of elder statesman he seems to be cultivating (lots of money there, just ask former President Clinton).
Item three is obvious, in that George Bush gets to go out with a bang, and really be a war president. Unfortunately, because Iran is not the same place as Iraq - not at all, this is going to have even worse unintended consequences than attacking Iraq did.. Not to say I want any of this to happen, its just I don't trust any of these people running things to be or act with any kind of fundamental humanity or sanity.
Let's seriously pray this shameful tragedy is not visited upon the world.
