Uh Oh. Is Bush's Next Move an Attack on Iran?

CQ Politics columnist Craig Crawford is convinced that with George Bush "around the corner" on keeping control of his Iraq policy, he can "move on to his other military target: Iran," which Crawford expects "he will probably do before the year is out." Crawford notes that Democrats in Congress have not moved forward on legislation that would tie Bush's hands on attacking Iran, that recent diplomatic moves by Europeans are playing into Bush's hands, and that Britain recently agreed to move troops to the Iranian border. Iranian lack of cooperation in the matter of missing former FBI agent Robert Levinson provides a convenient provocation.

Is this why the GOP seems relatively sanguine about popular opposition to their stay-the-course policy on Iraq? That is to say, because they all know that there is a fresh new military conflict on the way to shore up support? Americans always rally to the president in times of war, the conventional thinking goes. Would it happen again this time?