August 20, 2007 (LPAC)--All U.S. press dutifully report today on the charges against Iran made on Sunday by Maj. Gen. Rick Lynch, the U.S. commander in charge of operations south of Baghdad, who said that 50 members of Iran's Revolutionary Guard Corps were are training Shiite militias in Iraq, on how to use mortars and rocket launchers. Lynch acknowledges that no Iranians have been captured in his area of command, and no illegal weapons have been found, but nonetheless he maintains: "We know they're here."

Meanwhile, Time magazine's website posted an article entitled "Prelude to an attack on Iran," by former CIA official Robert Baer, in which he says that the Administration's plan to list the Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) as a terrorist organization can be one of two things: either more bluster, or a wind-up for a strike on Iran. "Officials I talk to in Washington vote for a hit on the IRGC, maybe within the next six months," Baer writes. "And they think that as long as we have bombers and missiles in the air, we will hit Iran's nuclear facilities." One Administration official told Baer definitively: "IRGC IED's are a casus belli for this administration. There will be an attack on Iran."

But while the Cheneyacs keep beating the war drums, Associated Press reports that Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has accepted the Iraqi government's invitation to visit Baghdad, an invitation extended by Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki after his recent successful visit to Tehran. At the same time, Al-Maliki himself has arrived in Syria for a three-day visit, which will include discussions on trade, security, and refugees.