Agreed. Iran will attack, it's just a matter of time. People who are friendly with one another do not go out of their way to make another person feel uncomfortable and threatened. Iran is going out of it's way to make us feel uncomfortable and threatened....this is not friendly. We need to act before they do. I have no desire to hear news reports about how Dallas has just been hit by a truck-mounted nuke that came across the Mexican border, with Venezuela the port of entry and Iran the originating country.
Yikes! Me neither since I live about 30 minutes from Dallas and I was born and raised there. Anyway...Here's a quote from a NY Sun editorial:
"President Ahmadinejad's letter [html, pdf] to President Bush, widely interpreted as a peaceful overture, is in fact a declaration of war. The key sentence in the letter is the closing salutation. In an eight-page text of the letter being circulated by the Council on Foreign Relations, it is left untranslated and rendered as "Vasalam Ala Man Ataba'al hoda." What this means is "Peace only unto those who follow the true path."
It is a phrase with historical significance in Islam, for, according to Islamic tradition, in year six of the Hejira -- the late 620s -- the prophet Mohammad sent letters to the Byzantine emperor and the Sassanid emperor telling them to convert to the true faith of Islam or be conquered. The letters included the same phrase that President Ahmadinejad used to conclude his letter to Mr. Bush.
Don't you think that Bush has been told what the implications in the letter are?