Several New Mexico bloggers have already hit on the absurdity of a B-52 flying hafway across the country with nuclear weapons aboard, but Larry Johnson at TPM Cafe starts asking the right questions: So I called a old friend and retired B-52 pilot and asked him. What he told me offers one compelling case of [...]

Lot’s of news regarding Iran this weekend. Most of it is from a new Seymour Hersh article (via Think Progress): In the past few months, as the situation in Iraq has deteriorated, the Bush Administration, in both its public diplomacy and its covert operations, has significantly shifted its Middle East strategy. The “redirection,” as some [...]

Via Matt Yglesias (who wrote about the Richardson candidacy earlier this week) comes this Richardson-penned column: The recent tentative agreement with North Korea over its nuclear program illustrates how diplomacy can work even with the most unsavory of regimes. Unfortunately, it took the Bush administration more than six years to commit to diplomacy. During that [...]

The usually insightful Clay Benntt, at the Christian Science Monitor. Josh Marshall has some incredible insights of his own, regarding Bush Co. attempts to mislead us into another war cook the intelligence again prove Iran is supplying arms to our enemies in Iraq: Now, given the black market traffic in arms in Iraq right now, [...]

This is a little out of the neighborhood, but Ken Silverstein has the first of a three-part series online regarding the possibility of war with Iran. Today features thoughts from independent analysts. A. Richard Norton: Remember that in 1990–91 and then again in 2003 the very fact that the United States assembled a formidable array [...]

Digby on Iran: I feel, once again, as if I’m watching this take place under water. It’s all there, I can see it, but it’s all a bit distorted and everything is moving in slow motion. I’m screaming, but it comes out muffled and imprecise. The Bush administration is provoking a war with Iran, in [...]