Yawn - U.S. Preps for War With Iran

Telegraph headline: "Bush setting America up for war with Iran"

Senior American intelligence and defence officials believe that President George W Bush and his inner circle are taking steps to place America on the path to war with Iran... Pentagon planners have developed a list of up to 2,000 bombing targets in Iran...

The headline reads like a bad editorial. ("Set up" may mean something different in Britain. Here it means a unilateral, unfair trick, leading to disaster.) The copy reads like an announcement that when it rains things tend to get wet. The existence of highly specific target lists for U.S. bombing of Iran was common, public knowledge 18 months ago (and easily surmised well before that). Preparations are prudent when one is already being attacked both verbally and physically. In the current climate, a lack of them would be much more shocking headline fodder.