Wars And Rumours Of Wars

From Greg @ The Compass

With the exception of Ron Paul, it appears every Republican in the field is quite willing to start a war with Iran. 

With unemployment still high and the economy still weak, doubtful that foreign policy will figure much in the election, but it's worth considering how the discussion on Iran would play out between the GOP nominee (assuming it's not Paul) and 44. GOP Nominee X will declare his or her intention to bomb Iran if it came to it, and 44 will say that he's definitely open to the possibility. 

Whatever misgivings the U.S. public had about the Iraq war are fading (alongside, not coincidentally, American attention to what is actually happening inside Iraq) so it is obviously politically safer to muse openly about starting another war.