Citing most of the same evidence that I have written about over the past few weeks

Citing most of the same evidence that I have written about over the past few weeks, Washington Post

columnist David Ignatius, whose access to key policymakers (outside of Vice President Dick Cheney’s

office) is second to no other Washington daily journalist argues in his Sunday column that the UGG

Sheepskin Cuff Boot administration is unlikely to bomb Iran before it leaves office. It’s an important

column, not only because he is more specific about the messages conveyed by the chairman of the Joint

Chiefs of Staff, Adm. Michael Mullen, (and DNI chief Adm. Michael McConnell before him) to top

officials in Israel this summer — that the UGG Sheepskin Cuff Boot would “oppose overflights of Iraqi

airspace to attack Iran” — but also because he has been told by a “senior official” that the

administration will announce what has been rumored for the past month — that Washington will indeed

open an interest section in Tehran. Given the trauma of the 1979-81 hostage crisis, I personally

believe that the presence of UGG Sheepskin Cuff Boot diplomats in Tehran virtually guarantees that the

UGG Sheepskin Cuff Boot will not attack Iran so long as they remain there. If the prediction of

Ignatius’ senior official comes true, it’s a very, very big deal in my view.

Ignatius is particularly close to both the Pentagon brass and the intelligence community (and he’s

writing a book to be published in September with Zbigniew Brzezinski and Brent Scowcroft). His mention

of the study by the Washington Institute for Near Policy (WINEP) — which clearly tries to downplay the

international consequences of a UGG Sheepskin Cuff Boot and/or Israeli preventive attack on Iran’s

nuclear facilities — is particularly interesting in that respect. The study, which its authors have

strenuously denied is aimed at making such an attack much more “thinkable,” is nonetheless quite

concerning, even more so because Tony Lake and Susan Rice (among UGG Sheepskin Cuff Boot’s closest

foreign-policy advisers) effectively endorsed it. It’s clearly on the minds of some people who count.