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Despite warnings by former US military officials that military action against Iran would have "disastrous consequences," the good Christian soldiers in Washington seem "hell-bent" on marching off to war there:

The heaviest concentration of U.S. naval strike forces since the 2003 war against Iraq is concentrating off Iran...

[The US and Britain] are overflying Iran and probing its nuclear and military installations. The CIA and Britain's MI6 are stirring unrest among Iran's Kurds and Azerbaijanis, and arming Iranian Marxist and royalist exiles...

Half of the 21,000 additional U.S. troops headed to Iraq are being positioned to cover the Iranian border...

New contingents of U.S. Air Force personnel and warplanes are arriving at key forward air bases in Bulgaria and Romania that link the U.S. to the Mideast and Central Asia...

Turkey is being pressed to allow U.S. and Israeli strike aircraft to use its air space to attack northern Iran...

The U.S. Treasury has mounted a highly effective campaign to strangle Iran financially, seriously hurting its foreign banking connections, retarding industrial growth and energy production, and impeding foreign investment...

And all this while the US admits it has no evidence that Iran is helping the insurgents in Iraq:

Administration officials have long complained that Iran was supplying Shiite Muslim militants with lethal explosives and other materiel used to kill U.S. military personnel. But despite several pledges to make the evidence public, the administration has twice postponed the release — most recently, a briefing by military officials scheduled for last Tuesday in Baghdad.

"The truth is, quite frankly, we thought the briefing overstated, and we sent it back to get it narrowed and focused on the facts," national security advisor Stephen J. Hadley said Friday.

Translation: the facts aren't quite cooked yet.

We've seen this movie before.