Salon has an artcle called "The Neocon's Big Iran Lie.

 The same ignorant war-mongering, self-satisfied pricks, speaking from a position of assumed safety as always, are using the same tactics, consisting largely of the same lies, for the same purpose, justifying, and thereby selling, the start of another bombing campaign. Many are buying into it.

The U.S. should carry out limited strikes on Iran’s key nuclear facilities, Kroenig argued, and could “reduce the political fallout of military action by building global support for it in advance.” “By building such a consensus in the lead-up to an attack and taking the outlined steps to mitigate it once it began,” Kroenig wrote, “the United States could avoid an international crisis and limit the scope of the conflict.”

Emphasis added. There are plenty who carry on the task of building support for military action and all is fair for those who seem to love more war. Truth was long ago a victim of collateral damage.

http://www.salon.com/2012/02/10/the_neocons_big_iran_lie/

As with the calls for war against Iraq, what all of these pieces share is a shockingly blithe attitude toward the likely costs of such a war, and a failure to seriously grapple with the consequences. (Though, it must be said, Niall Ferguson’s stands out for the clubby, back-slapping brio with which he advocates the “creative destruction” of Iran. Omelettes, eggs, right?)