CBS News seems pretty breathless about this development, titling the story "Hostile" Iran Sparks U.S. Attack Plan. Note two things about the title:

1. The word "Hostile" is in quotes, meaning that CBS doesn't think that Iran is hostile. Think of it like this: CBS "reporters" help make the upper half of the IQ Bell Curver possible.
2. The phrase Sparks U.S. Attack Plan implies that we have never before have had plans to attack Iran that that the Evil Genius Moron Bush wants to start another war. What CBS doesn't tell you is that the US already has plans to attack Iran as well as virtually every country and region in the world. I recently read that the US had plans in place to attack Great Britain until something like the late 1960s. I can't find it right now but it is on the internet.

The story later uses the phrase new options for attacking Iran, meaning that we probably already have 10-15 options already in place, ranging from limited border strikes to a support of Israel attacking Iran to total nuclear annihilation. The new options reported by CBS probably lean towards limited strikes against terrorist strongholds in Iran to keep them from supplying weapons to terrorists in Iraq.

My guess is that Israel will knock out Iran's entire military and its nuclear facilities before the end of the Bush administration and that the US will provide undercover support, just as we probably did with last September's attack on Syria's nuclear installation. Israel knows that if the Democrats win, the US will not provide them with any aid. Furthermore, the US may join the rest of the UN in condemning and possibly punishing Israel if Clinton is president and will most certainly do so if Obama is president. For that very same reason, Iran is waiting to provoke open regional hostilities until (presumably) a Democrat is elected president. Obama has openly anti-Israel advisors on his campaign staff who have blamed Jews and Christians for the course of events in Iraq:

"Let's say that one of your abiding concerns is the security of Israel as opposed to a purely American self-interest. Then it would make sense to build a dozen or so bases in Iraq," the general said.

"Let's say you are a born-again Christian and you think that Armageddon and the rapture are about to happen any minute, and what you want to do is retrace steps you think are laid out in Revelations, then it makes sense," he said.

Obviously, General McPeak has never read the book of "Revelations" (note the quotes, gentle reader).

Here's a snippet of the story from CBS:

(CBS) A second American aircraft carrier steamed into the Persian Gulf on Tuesday as the Pentagon ordered military commanders to develop new options for attacking Iran. CBS News national security correspondent David Martin reports that the planning is being driven by what one officer called the "increasingly hostile role" Iran is playing in Iraq - smuggling weapons into Iraq for use against American troops.

"What the Iranians are doing is killing American servicemen and -women inside Iraq," said Secretary of Defense Robert Gates.

U.S. officials are also concerned by Iranian harassment of U.S. ships in the Persian Gulf as well as Iran's still growing nuclear program. New pictures of Iran's uranium enrichment plant show the country's defense minister in the background, as if deliberately mocking a recent finding by U.S. intelligence that Iran had ceased work on a nuclear weapon.