Pissing Contest

Oh Jeeee-bus! Here we go with a war of words and threats! Bush is still harping on Iran. Now Iran is issuing "double dares" right back!

"Iran has begun publicly preparing for a possible U.S. attack, as tensions mount between the Bush administration and this country's hard-line leaders over Tehran's purported nuclear weapons program.

'Iran would respond within 15 minutes to any attack by the United States or any other country,' an Iranian official close to the conservative clerics who run the country's security and military apparatus said on condition of anonymity.

The Tehran government has announced efforts to bolster and mobilize recruits in its citizens' militia and is making plans to engage in the type of 'asymmetrical' warfare that has bogged down U.S. troops in neighboring Iraq, officials and analysts say.

Iran insists it needs nuclear technology to meet its burgeoning domestic energy requirements and bolster its scientific community. But the United States accuses it of using nuclear energy as a fig leaf for a weapons program. "

I'd be hard pressed to believe that either Iran or the United States(or Israel) is going to attack the other (but you never can tell). It would be disastrous for both sides and the entire region if this escalates any further. Bush is still spewing his edicts to Iran. They, in turn, are spewing taunts right back. It is really starting to get silly and seems more like a dick fight than anything else.