Afghanistan, Iraq, and now Iran. We will apparently bomb out every country with connections to Al Queda, however tenuous. Cons know they can't agitate for war against Iran now. But like the neocon Marchavik (sp?) said recently, neocons will begin laying the intellectual foundations for a possible strike later. Bridging Iran to Al Queda is just step 1 in the process.
http://article.nationalreview.com/?q=N2ViMTQ1NTllMjAxZDVmNjg3ZjIyMWRlMWU5OWE3N2M="In their relentless anti-American jihad, Iran, Syria, Hezbollah and al Qaeda are one. "
"In hindsight, disclosure of an Iran/Hezbollah/Qaeda partnership should have come as no surprise. In the aforementioned spring 1998 indictment, the Justice Department alleged that bin Laden had “stated privately … that Al Qaeda should put aside its differences with Shiite Muslim terrorist organizations, including the Government of Iran and its affiliated terrorist group Hezballah"
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related: In the current issue of Foreign Policy, Joshua Muravchik, a prominent neoconservative, argued that the Administration had little choice. "Make no mistake: President Bush will need to bomb Iran's nuclear facilities before leaving office," he wrote. The President would be bitterly criticized for a preëmptive attack on Iran, Muravchik said, and so neoconservatives "need to pave the way intellectually now and be prepared to defend the action when it comes."