Over the cliff with George and Dick? Tom Engelhardt provides some disturbing analysis of the storm being brewed up by our neo-con artists in regards to ‘regime change’ in Iran.

After all, to anyone not delusional - which leaves out you-know-who and his vice president - a massive air assault on Iran, surely involving bunker-busting missiles with staggering explosive power, would seem to be an act of madness. The decision to attack Iran would be the equivalent of setting off an advanced IED directly under the main highway of what’s left of global order.

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The possibility of an attack on Iran has been a long time on the horizon. You’d have to start back at that moment before the invasion of Iraq in 2003, when, as Newsweek reminded us, one quip of the bolder neocons was: “Everyone wants to go to Baghdad. Real men want to go to Tehran.” You’d have to go back to January 2005, when reporter Seymour Hersh, in a New Yorker piece, “The Coming Wars,” wrote, “In my interviews, I was repeatedly told that the next strategic target was Iran,” and added that, in close cooperation with the Israelis, “the Administration has been conducting secret reconnaissance missions inside Iran at least since last summer.”

You’d have to go back to March 2005, when ex-CIA analyst Ray McGovern pointed out at Tomdispatch.com that “Bush administration policy toward the Middle East is being run by men… who were routinely referred to in high circles in Washington during the 1980s as ‘the crazies’” and who, he warned, might well head for Iran next.

You’d have to go back to August 2005 when, in the American Conservative magazine , former CIA official Philip Giraldi warned: “In Washington it is hardly a secret that the same people in and around the administration who brought you Iraq are preparing to do the same for Iran” — possibly involving an “unprovoked nuclear attack” on that country. A contingency plan was, he claimed, being drawn up in the Pentagon, “acting under instructions from Vice President Dick Cheney’s office.”

The litany goes on and on. Read more Here