The justification for the war on Iraq, if you subscribe to the rational set forth by the Bush administration, had mainly to do with Weapons Of Mass Destruction. This is what Big W and his finger puppets echoed again and again in the lead up to the war.

I give you Iran:

Iran President Confirms Nuclear Technology

Where are the war drums? Where are the fat headed, saber rattling, chicken hawks? Why has the ill-considered 'doctrine of preemption' not been set into motion? Where are the thoughtless blanket condemnations from the conservative punditry?

Nowhere to be seen.

I think this says a lot about the war in Iraq. Everything we have ever heard about it was smoke. Illusion. Well constructed spin designed to give the power mongers at the top of the administration the war they wanted. They, who had no use for diplomacy when the military was strong and unencumbered, had the luxury of the offense at that time. They could play the Iraq card for the money and the great poll numbers, because back then we weren't embroiled in two wars. They, and this is well covered ground by now, but they assumed the war would be easy and profitable, and would make the US stronger. They could intimidate the other nasty countries into good behavior at that time. Now, however, after a protracted war with no foreseeable end, waning public support, and an ever weakening president, we are in no such position. Iran can give us the diplomatic middle finger, secure in the knowledge that with things the way they are in America they will be much more likely to get away with whatever they want.

Now, and this should be fun to watch, Bush has to be Clinton. He will have to put aside his well worn swagger, buck up, and will have to rely on the UN, the same UN he pissed on three years ago, to help solve this problem for him. I just hope that Bush hasn't caused more trouble than the international community can clean up, because NOBODY wants Iran to have the Bomb.