Deja Vu

For anyone that has noticed the increased rhetoric from the Administration about Iran:

Tony Snow cleared it all up for us yesterday in his press briefing:

Tony Snow: We've declared it over and over — we're not going to war with them. Let me make that clear. So anybody who is trying to use this as "the administration trying to lay the predicate for a war with Iran" — no, we're committed to diplomacy with Iran. But we are also committed to protecting our forces.

Now, see? All cleared up. No reason to doubt Mr. Snow. It's not like our leadership would lie right to our faces about such an important issue. And it's not like there is a precedent for this kind of behavior. It reminds me of 2002 when good ole Rummy let us know the truth about Iraq:

WASHINGTON — The United States has no plans to invade Iraq or any other country, Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld said Friday, but he refused to discuss the Bush administration's thinking about how to deal with Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein.

Think about this for a while:

"It may be hard to follow George W. Bush's path to [...] because he is walking down two roads at once. The only way diplomacy can succeed is if Bush is fully prepared for it to fail."

"So word spreads that his generals are planning to mount a military exercise in the Persian Gulf ....... even as his diplomats are hard at work on a United Nations resolution..."

(and before you click the link, try to guess what country the passage is referring to)