That may be the scenario, but the outcome will be very bad. The West should have stodd up to Ahmadinejad before this and told him to go home and sober up, so to speak.

It may well be to late to avert the coming brawl.

There are no nuclear missile launch sites in Israel. The nukes are all on subs. If Israel were “wiped off the map,” Tehran, Ramallah, Medina, Makkah and a lot of other Arab cities would go mushroom just like that.

These fools are as credible as a guy in the later stages of intoxication, and should be treated as such. (Perhaps the purpose of religion is to give people who don’t drink an equal opportunity to act stupid and be a pain in the butt?)

There’s another article in Salon regarding the Six-Day War, claiming Nasser really wasn’t intending to invade Israel, just talking hawkish for the home crowd. The Israelis took him seriously, destroyed his air force in half an hour, and his armored divisions quickly after that.

If you get drunk and shoot off your mouth in a bar, someone is likely to shut you up. Some people are claiming Cheney is trying to instigate a war with Iran, much to the chagrin of the State Department. Ahmadinejad is playing right into his hands.