Things that make you go, 'Hmmm.'

Or, more fully: Things that make you go, 'Hmm. Maybe it's time to think about building a bomb shelter in the backyard:

BBC NEWS | Middle East | Iran 'attacks Iraq Kurdish area'

Josh Marshall et al. with more: See It Now (Best quote from Josh: To the president the Democrats should be saying, 'Double or Nothing,' is Not a Foreign Policy.)

Not that GWB needs another reason. No doubt tomorrow he'll be out on the lawn leaning on his little music-stand podium telling us that, 'invading Iraq, or any sovereign country, is just plain wrong. Nations shouldn't invade other nations, so we're keeping all our options on the table, including invasion of Iran.'

It would be hilarious if it were a film David Mamet had written in 29 days. Unfortunately this is real life.

Away team, set your sabers to 'rattle.'

Engage.

--Late Update-- Scuttlebutt about the BBC article on various comment boards is that it's actually the turks who've been bombing the Kurds, and that the Iran story was trumped up by Iraq's new 'American puppet' government to give one more reason for US action against Iran. No way to know for sure, but if the administration does start making alot of noise about this today and tomorrow, the conspiracists might be right.