Pentagon and CIA officials confirm that Bush is still pushing for war with Iran.

Pentagon and CIA officers say they believe that the White House has begun a carefully calibrated programme of escalation that could lead to a military showdown with Iran.

Now it has emerged that Condoleezza Rice, the secretary of state, who has been pushing for a diplomatic solution, is prepared to settle her differences with Vice-President Dick Cheney and sanction military action.

In a chilling scenario of how war might come, a senior intelligence officer warned that public denunciation of Iranian meddling in Iraq - arming and training militants - would lead to cross border raids on Iranian training camps and bomb factories.

Recent developments over Iraq appear to fit with the pattern of escalation predicted by Pentagon officials.

Gen David Petraeus, Mr Bush's senior Iraq commander, denounced the Iranian "proxy war" in Iraq last week as he built support in Washington for the US military surge in Baghdad.
The US also announced the creation of a new base near the Iraqi border town of Badra, the first of what could be several locations to tackle the smuggling of weapons from Iran.

This is so eerily reminiscent of how we started laying the groundwork for the Iraq invasion that it almost seems like they are using the same exact data and just crossing out "Iraq" and writing in "Iran".

We must constantly shine a light on this policy and refute the strained logic that the administration is using to promote the idea that Iran is really a danger to America or peace in the Middle East.

This is another unnecessary war.

It is being approached without first using real diplomatic measures.

Our military is virtually broken and cannot take the stress of another conflict.

It will more then likely usher in World War Three.

And we need to stop it. Period!