Preparing For a Strike on Iran?

It's been a busy week for Bush in Washington. He hosted a visit from Israel's Prime Minister Olmert and will hold a joint press conference later today (~5pm ET) with Britain's Prime Minister (and sock-puppet) Tony Blair.

What's really going on?

Olmert spoke to congress not only about the Israel/Palestinian situation, but quite forcefully against Iran and Bush asserted that the US would protect Israel from an Iranian attack. Will Bush just fabricate an attack as he had planned prior to the Iraq war?

Blair and Bush are expected to talk about Iraq but, unless they have something new to add to the converstaion in the form of an announcement about troop withdrawals, one is left to wonder what Blair's visit is really all about.

Is this just the run up to a US attack on Iran? Is Bush meeting with these leaders to prepare for one? With the growing spread of anti-Iranian propaganda and conflicting reports of Iran's nuclear capabilities, no one seems to actually know the truth of the situation on the ground. In all of this confusion, will the US once again bypass the UN Security Council and unilaterally decide on preemptive strikes no matter what the intel presents?

And what is Canada's part in all of this?

The U.S. state department said Undersecretary of State Nicholas Burns met with his Canadian counterpart as part of the London meetings, but a foreign affairs spokesperson in Ottawa would not name the Canadian representative.

Is there any logical reason for not naming our country's representative in these talks? What is our government trying to hide?

Many people believe that Bush would not make the same mistake twice - invading a country without adequate resources or preparation.

I'm not one of them.