They had tried, but folks were saying they'd heard it all before. So, it's gonna take a bit more drum-pounding before enough people start tapping their toes.

The citation suggested that the attack would take place after the carriers had deployed again. So that hasn't changed.

What is clear is that as they refit and resupply those carriers they will have had more time to demonize Iran, had more time to frighten folks, and will be running out of time in their administration. And have a lot of force available for the duration of their administration, leaving the successors with a shambles. Which will happen anyway, the only question being how much of one.

By the way, it's conceivable that Bush & Cheney will create such a wide-spread chaos and war that they would suspend the Constitution with the aid of the Roberts-Scalia-Thomas Supreme Court and stay in power with the assistance of Blackwater and other mercenaries. Would make a believable plot in a novel. Stranger things have happened.

For instance, one of the strangest, is the mightiest military power in the world with an offence budget larger than the next 7 nations combined has losing two wars against two third-world countries. If that were in a novel no one would believe it.

Arf