Those who remember the tune from last time can hear Dubya's war drums beating for an attack on Iran. As dark charges are made in public, and rumors swirl about covert oprations already underway, large-scale military action is being hinted at, discussed, and dismissed with the same heavily qualified denials as in the run-up to the invasion of Iraq, where Congress was ultimately steamrollered into an ill-conceived gamble with questionable evidence.

But fear not. The Senate has learned its lesson. As Dubya & co. raise the tension against Iran, even as I write, they are consumed with the question of how to back a resolution opposing... further escalation in Iraq.