Bush doing all he can to push Mahmoud Ahmedinejad into a corner

Bush either doesn't recognize Mahmoud Ahmedinejad as someone with a personality similar to his own or he does and is trying to get a rise out of him. At any rate he's going to corner Ahmedinejad and cause him to strike back. Its inevitable.

I've posted before Iran is not Iraq. Unless Bush decides to turn the country of Iran into glass*, he doesn't have a chance of "winning" there. And I doubt the rest of the world would see such an outcome as "winning".

The United States is expected to announce sanctions against Bank Sepah, a big Iranian commercial bank, under a presidential order aimed at freezing the assets of proliferators of weapons of mass destruction and their supporters, several US officials have said.

A senior US official, speaking on condition of anonymity, told Reuters that action is expected to be announced soon.

The new sanctions - under an executive order from George Bush, the US president, signed in June 2005 - reflects the administration's determination to use US authorities to pressure Iran to abandon its nuclear programme, something Tehran has repeatedly insisted it will not do.

The mind boggles at the damage Bush can do between now and 2009. Even if impeachment should not result in Bush's being put out to pasture, it needs to be launched. Maybe if he has too much on his plate he'll not have time enough to cause more catastrophes.

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* A nuclear blast turns sand into glass (Wikipedia link).

In the crater the desert sand, which is largely made of silica, melted and became glass of a light green color and mildly radioactive; this was named Trinitite.