Bush Administration's clandestine operation in Iran can't be a good sign.

The New Yorker has learned that the Bush Administration has launched covert operations within Iran, and Congress authorized $400 million to fund the operation.

It's hardly a secret that the administration's next target for military operations is Iran. The Bush White House is already beating the war drums, and Republican nominee-in-waiting John McCain isn't doing anything to quiet those drums.

They are engaging in similar methods of misleading the American public about the "threat" Iran poses, just as they did in 2002 and 2003 prior to the invasion of Iraq.

Anyone who thinks an invasion of Iran would go better than the Iraq invasion did is clearly delusional.

Seymour Hersh, who wrote the piece in the New Yorker, said that the Bush Administration wants to either attack Iran or force it to stop its weapons program via other means before Bush's term is up in January of 2009.

If the Bush Administration decides to attack Iran, it would leave the next president with three messy wars and an even more depleted military.

It would also re-ignite the passions of the terrorists who would bring us harm.

Bush has said that the Iranians have been stoking sectarian violence in Iraq. He easily can use that as an excuse for invading Iran without waiting for the nuclear issue to work itself out via diplomatic means.

It is up to Democratic leaders in Congress to delay a possible invasion of Iran until after Bush leaves office. The last thing our military needs is another unnecessary war when the military is already taxed as it is with two wars being fought.

Our nation cannot afford another invasion, literally and figuratively. Whatever has to be done to keep American troops out of Iran must be done.