Here's the point: if Bush *wants* to attack Iran (and it seems he does), he has the tools to do so. This is like loaning a person your hand so that they can murder someone with it. In the end... your hand commits the murder. When Bush orders an attack on a country, it is American soldiers who do the killing, and it is the American taxpayer who bankrolls it. It is the American voter who elected Bush (supposedly), and it is the lack of effective oversight and the failing of checks and balances that allows these things to happen without proper discussion or consensus. Here's the link.

The study concludes that the US has made military preparations to destroy Iran’s WMD, nuclear energy, regime, armed forces, state apparatus and economic infrastructure within days if not hours of President George W. Bush giving the order. The US is not publicising the scale of these preparations to deter Iran, tending to make confrontation more likely. The US retains the option of avoiding war, but using its forces as part of an overall strategy of shaping Iran’s actions.