Hawks Looking at Iran?

Seen at CNN:

The Bush administration has launched a "significant escalation" of covert operations in Iran, sending U.S. commandos to spy on the country’s nuclear facilities and undermine the Islamic republic’s government, journalist Seymour Hersh said Sunday.[…]

President Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney have rejected findings from U.S. intelligence agencies that Iran has halted a clandestine effort to build a nuclear bomb and "do not want to leave Iran in place with a nuclear program," Hersh said.

"They believe that their mission is to make sure that before they get out of office next year, either Iran is attacked or it stops its weapons program," Hersh said.

Surely I can’t be the only person speculating about joint American-Israeli operations against Iran being started up on Wednesday, 5 November, too late for it to impact the November elections, but before the Bush administration is removed from power.

If the Dems were truly dovish, they would start wrestling through a prohibition on the expenditure of any funds in preemptive, offensive action against Iran between 1 November and 20 January as part of each and every appropriations bill passed between now and the change in administrations.

If a legitimate need to go to war with Iran emerged, such a prohibition could be rescinded.  And, by setting those particular time limits, the administration would be obliged to weigh the political ramifications of any aggression (as opposed to the potential for a Lame Duck War).

I normally would not be comfortable suggesting that such restrictions be attempted against the Commander In Chief.  However…where are the WMD’s the invasion of Iraq was supposed to protect us from?