The rumours that never seemed to cement themselves into fully sighted news appear to finally be cementing themselves. Sure, the indications were there when Fox News ramped up the propaganda on Iran a few weeks ago. But none of the indications that the Scott Ritters of the world have been echoing seemed to be coming true. Perhaps it was just a matter of time-line being off; perhaps that was combined with any number of things happening off-stage and out of view. The result has generally been, for me, pushing aside the rumoured going ons of any military adventure into Iran.

Air Force Col. Sam Gardiner (Ret.) said, “We are conducting military operations inside Iran right now. The evidence is overwhelming.”

Today Bush popped before the United Nations and rattled the chains. And thus we appear to be off in some forbidding direction.

The Electoral cynicism, in some quarters, comes in with USA Today’s publication of polling data which shows Bush’s approval rating rising. It is up to a oh-so-fantastic 44 percent — a percentage that only looks good because of the depths that Bush had fallen. The cynical take, and one that is prevalent amongst vast swarms of the electorate, is that this is the poll for a Banana Republic. We are being groomed for a non-disasterous Fall Midterm election for the Republican Party. The election results have already being written out. We shrug. The only means of protest we have at this moment in history is to throw eggs at our leaders, and then to throw more eggs, and then walk around and forget the day.

That is the electoral lethargacy. Is it warrented? I Report. You Decide.

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