Democracy for Vancouver

From Juan Cole today:

Barnett Rubin relays a message from a well-connected friend in Washington on the Cheney Administration’s plans to roll out a military confrontation with Iran in September. He writes at the Global Affairs blog:

My friend had spoken to someone in one of the leading neo-conservative institutions. He summarized what he was told this way:

They [the source's institution] 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.”

No doubt Cheney wants to hit the airwaves before this:

In a confidential report on Thursday, the IAEA said that Iran’s agreement to answer key questions about its nuclear programme was “a significant step forward,” but that it must do more to build confidence it does not seek atomic weapons. Iran has cleared up questions about its experiments with plutonium, a potential atom bomb material, said the report, which will be reviewed by the IAEA’s board of governors at a meeting beginning September 10.

Now can we impeach the sonofabitch?

*I wasn’t sure if I should use an obscenity-laced headline on my first day, so I split the difference.