The 2006 election war

Iraq was Karl Rove's 2002 election war. Well things are looking pretty dark for the Republicans in 2006 so what do you do? If you are Karl Rove you come up with a new war since the old on is becoming a political liability.
US prepares military blitz against Iran's nuclear sites

Strategists at the Pentagon are drawing up plans for devastating bombing raids backed by submarine-launched ballistic missile attacks against Iran's nuclear sites as a "last resort" to block Teheran's efforts to develop an atomic bomb.

Central Command and Strategic Command planners are identifying targets, assessing weapon-loads and working on logistics for an operation, the Sunday Telegraph has learnt.

They are reporting to the office of Donald Rumsfeld, the defence secretary, as America updates plans for action if the diplomatic offensive fails to thwart the Islamic republic's nuclear bomb ambitions. Teheran claims that it is developing only a civilian energy programme.

"This is more than just the standard military contingency assessment," said a senior Pentagon adviser. "This has taken on much greater urgency in recent months."

Will Rove's plan work? John Emerson thinks it will.

The way I read the tea-leaves, the Democrats will be blindsided. Whether they support the attack, oppose it, or split on the issue, they will lose the 2006 Congressional elections. All the liberal hawks, conservitarians, and moderates will fall dutifully into line, and two-party democracy will be a thing of the past in this country.

I'm not so sure. For starters you can only use the same play so many times. More importantly the political "blowback" will be huge. Any attack on Iran will result in a major disruption of the worlds oil flow. See Economic Weapons of Mass Destruction. Second, any overt attack on Iran will result in much of the Iraqi Army/Security Forces turning on US forces in that country and make a really bad situation an order of magnitude worse. Did you hear that Democrats? Speak up now, you will be sorry if you don't.