It is likely, at least according to Seymour Hersh from the New-Yorker magazine.

In his article, to be published the 7th of July, Hersh explains how the Bush Administration is in the process of stepping up its operations against Iran.

The covert operations have being going on for sometime, but last year the US  Congress agreed to a request from the Bush Administration to fund covert operations in Iran for an amount of 400 million dollars.

At least according to Jason Leopold ; editor of the investigative on line news magazine  The Public Record .

In his detail piece, Jason looks at the track record of Halliburton in the Middle-East currently and when the company was headed by Dick Cheney.

In his new book, Scott McClellan says about the VP that he is so skillful at covering his tracks that he almost " never leaves finger prints ". Well, not this time around.

We know where Sen. McCain stand on the war in Iraq; He is claiming that " the surge is working " and doesn't want any time frame for the US pull out until the " enemy is defeated ", and Iraq can function as a " stable democracy ". He wants to stay until the " job is done " ( whatever that means?) and he mentioned, in a speech, a few month ago  that  the " US could be in Iraq for  another 100 years ".

John McCain talked about foreign policy in Los Angeles today. The good news is, McCain is no Bush. The bad news is, McCain is McCain. Forgive my visceral reaction, then, but it can't be helped: Ugh.

OK, I'm a hypocrite.

I've spent the last few days feeling some disdain for all the Wall Street traders wallowing in schadenfreude over Spitzer's downfall. Unseemly, I thought.

Then I read this:

Tehran's police chief, Reza Zarei, has been arrested after he was found nude in a local brothel with six naked prostitutes, the Farda news website reported Wednesday.