Perhaps my cynicism is making me a conspiracy theorist, but isn't it awfully convenient that, just a month after the Bush Administration was embarrassed by the revelation that Iran doesn't have a nuclear weapons program, Iran has seemingly handed President Bush a shiny new reason to threaten war against the Muslim nation?

I wonder, if Iranian naval ships were sitting just outside American waters in the Gulf of Mexico, would our Navy simply ignore them, or would there be a tense confrontation as our military sought to protect our waters from foreign invasion.