In authorizing the attack on Iran's consulate in Irbil, President Bush was okaying an act of war — an attack on the sovereign territory of Iran. What did he expect to happen? What's war for the goose is war for the gander.

Now with all the preparations the administration has under way for war with Iran — a second carrier battle group ordered to the region, a Naval carrier commander placed in charge of the "Iraq War," and air force general put in charge of the "Afghan War," and forces inside Iraq already selecting hundreds of targets — it is likely that the attack on the Irbil consulate was a deliberate provocation, intended to push Iran into a retaliatory action that would allow Bush to unleash the bombers. But even if the president has such a hidden agenda, the American people need to know what's going on here.

If the U.S. goes to war against Iran — a mad scheme if there ever was one at a time when the Army and Marines are stretched to the limit and are already losing in Iraq — Iran will fight back in ways that will be hard to defend against. The U.S. embassy in Greece is a clue about what will happen. If we attack Iran, no target in the U.S. will be safe. No American or American facility in the world will be safe.

This is not what the American people want.

These are the actions of a madman.

It's time for Congress to stop dithering. Impeach this loon an put him in an asylum. And bring the troops home where they belong.

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