"You will have a messy world."

That's my favorite quote from Seymour Hersh's The Iran Plans, which explores the latest excellent regime change adventure Bush and Cheney daydream about now that they're bored with Iraq. And this time the full-tilt bug fuck duo is thinking about going nuclear.

Michel Samaha, a veteran Lebanese Christian politician and former cabinet minister in Beirut, told me that the Iranian retaliation might be focussed on exposed oil and gas fields in Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Kuwait, and the United Arab Emirates. “They would be at risk,” he said, “and this could begin the real jihad of Iran versus the West. You will have a messy world.”

To say the least.

I think it's safe to assume that there'd be IEDs on US interstates, the requisite subway bombings, quite a few airbuses disintegrating over the oceans, and customer shoot-outs at US gas stations. Plus no live spectators at the next few SuperBowls either, for security purposes.

Let's see if we can guess which color the terror alert code will be.