Iran is three times the size of Iraq, with a much larger population that is more coherently loyal to the central government, has NOT been under sanctions for a decade, is far stronger militarily than the depleted Saddam regime was.
The US is sandbagged down in Iraq just trying not to lose people at this point. It has become increasingly unpopular at home. Bush has only his core loyalists behind him now... about a third of the electorate, at most.
An invasion of Iran seems highly unlikely.
An arial attack? Maybe. By Israel? Getting warmer....
I don't want to insult the Israelis who are stuck between the Islamofacists and their own Zionist hardliners, but Israel, to the US right wing, is a military outpost, a proxy state. And the US right wingers are hoping that Israel does their dirty work for them and starts sh-t. It would serve their purposes and let them off the hook at the same time.
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