LADIES AND GENTLEMEN, PLEASE PLACE YOUR BETS

Mikevotes has started the first "date the Iran bombing" pool.

Here's my bet:

I don't think Bush will attack Iran until after the congressional elections, so I'll take December 2.

But here's another date we can speculate on -- when Bush will authorize a major escalation in the Iraq war, an all-out assault on the insurgents in an attempt to put some "wins" up on the Iraq scoreboard. And THAT I'll take odds will take happen before the '06 elections, sometime around August 2.

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