I hope this is not true, but I feel the decison has been made.

It seems that the article discusses "contingency" planning, which doesn't mean much. The U.S. has "contingency" plans on file for massive wars against probably every country on Earth. So does every other important defense ministry in the world, I'm guessing.

But only the Bush administration has had the will and intent to actually pull the trigger against the nations of the so called "Axis of Evil". In 2001 I would have said the same, because its true, nobody would want to get caught with their pants down, but today....