Are we at war with Iran?

That's probably a rhetorical question.

I started watching Dubya's Wednesday night speech, but I had to turn off the television when he started blaming all our problems on Iran and Syria, because the whole thing was making me too angry.

Now, in today's edition of the British newspaper The Independent, I found an article titled Bush's tough tactics are a 'declaration of war' on Iran!

The article starts out as follows:

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American forces stormed Iranian government offices in northern Iraq, hours after President George Bush issued a warning to Tehran that was described as a "declaration of war".

The soldiers detained six people, including diplomats, according to the Iranians, and seized documents and computers in the pre-dawn raid which was condemned by Iran. A leading UK-based Iran specialist, Ali Ansari, said the incident was an "extreme provocation". Dr Ansari said that Mr Bush's speech on future Iraq strategy amounted to "a declaration of war" on Iran.

"The risk is a wider war. Because of the underlying tensions, we are transferring from a 'cold war' into a 'hot war'," he said.

In his speech, the President accused Iran and Syria of providing material support for attacks on US troops, and vowed to stop the "flow of support" from across the border. "We will seek out and destroy the networks providing advanced weaponry and training to our enemies in Iraq," he said.

Dr Ansari argued that the Bush administration had decided to confront Iran at a time when public opinion has been focused on the conflicts in Iraq, Afghanistan and Somalia. "There's been a shift of emphasis without anyone noticing," he said.

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[Read the complete article.]

No wonder terrorists around the world want to attack American interests, like this morning's rocket attack on the U.S. embassy in Athens.

Hopefully the new Congress will do something quickly to put an end to Bush's imperialistic aggression. We cannot let this continue for another two years.