Iran is causing us so much trouble because Bush lost the war in Iraq

I really believe that Iran is acting up over the nuclear issue because they know that George Bush has made America a lame duck.

In an ironic twist on Bush/Cheney/Rumsfeld's warnings about what will happen if we lose Iraq, the three horsemen of the apocalypse were basically right. If we lose Iraq, we're screwed. America's influence will go down in the world and all sorts of other evil powers in the Middle East and beyond will be emboldened.

Well, they were right. We lost Iraq - rather, they lost Iraq - and now Iran is going to town on the nuclear option because, among other reasons, they know they face a weakened America. An America that can't-do. An America that has very few options left for telling Iran what to do, since we're already involved in two other wars that aren't going so well, we've bankrupted ourselves, and over-stretched our military.

So, yes, we have George Bush, Dick Cheney and Donald Rumsfeld to thank for how screwed up things are with Iran right now. The Bush administration, and their Republican enablers in Congress, created the very world they told us they were supposedly trying to avoid.