Iran - Bush wakes up to it!

In case you missed it in the news, we have proof that U.S. President Bush is slow on the uptake. In this article by the Washington Post, from the 12 April 2008, we read that the Bush Administration has decided that Iran, not Al Queda, is the top threat to U.S. attempts to stabilize Iraqi democracy.

When we attacked Iraq, just before we entered Afghanistan, I told my friends that we would have to fight Iran too. After all, we helped install Sadaam into power in Iraq, we drove him back out of Kuwait (Desert Shield and Desert Storm, under the first Bush) and we were finally going in to remove him from his totalitarian power trip. The whole mess was the result of the U.S. trying to covertly build a buffer between Iran and the rest of the anti-Israeli Arab nations. Certainly, we would replace Sadaam with a far more democratic system that would be deeply influenced by Washington and provide an even stronger buffer against Iran. So Iran now has theological reasons as well as ethnic and political reasons to oppose the U.S. presence in Iraq. From what angle could the Bush Administration NOT see this one coming?