Talking Madness Down

Over at The Gadflyer, Joshua Holland summerizes the anti-war talking points on Bush's ginned-up confrontation with Iran ("October Surprise 2006"):

# The administration may be ready to bomb Iran, but they won't sit down and talk to them.

# Iran hasn't violated any international law or treaty and the IAEA, while expressing concern over "unresolved issues" has accounted for all of Iran's uranium.

# Attacking Iran will be the death of Iran's reform movement and will cement the Mullahs' power, and the power of Iran's vocally anti-American and anti-Israeli president for a long time.

# If Iran were to acquire nukes, there'd be the same Mutually Assured Destruction that kept the U.S. and USSR from blowing up the planet in the Middle East. Desirable? No. But something we could live with.

And here's an important one that should work nicely this summer:

# Attacking Iran will cause gas prices to skyrocket.

That last point ought to be the kicker.