NEW YORK - The George W Bush administration plans to launch an air strike against Iran within the next two months, an informed source tells Asia Times Online, echoing other reports that have surfaced in the media in the United States recently.

This story was originally reported in the Israeli press two weeks ago, right after Bush's visit.

Congress seems to understand the seriousness of this possibility.

So, in a few short months, we'll find out if this is tinfoil hat stuff, or reality ... and either way, we'll go back to watching "American Idol" reruns and putting our houses up for sale.

UPDATE: Here's some information about negotiations with Iran to help stabilize Iraq.

Via Mal Contends -

Rational Americans look on with concern like passengers on the Titanic as a hare-brained, messianic president enmeshed in a neocon ideological bubble sends signals of a coming strike against Iran.

A ex-military source working in a Midwest industry in a position to observe qualitative changes in military traffic on American rails and highways notes an increase in military-related traffic like that that has preceded military excursions into Iraq twice.

The source believes a strike against Iran is coming.

But as many have noted, such a strike is lunacy.

As Joseph L. Galloway writes in McClatchy (Inexorable March Toward War With Iran?):

... The more thoughtful military and civilian advisers can rattle off a dozen reasons why an American attack on Iran at this juncture would be foolish in the extreme and risk setting the Middle East afire.

Just some of those reasons would include:

Via MAL Contends — Update: Hillary Clinton Supports Resolution Prohibiting Funding for Military Action Against Iran