In today's New York Times, Paul Krugman's "Scary Movie 2," listing the signs that indicate that the Bush administration is preparing to attack Iran. Among them: as it did before the Iraq war, the administration has set up "a special intelligence unit to cook up rationales for war," Krugman writes. And the person heading it is Abram Shulsky, who headed the unit that "helped sell the Iraq war with false claims about links to Al Qaeda."

The scariest part of Krugman's column: his theory about why the administration is accusing Iran of meddling in Iraq. "Because there's no way Congress will approve another war resolution," Krugman writes. "But if you can claim that Iran is doing evil in Iraq, you can assert that you don't need authorization to attack --- that Congress has already empowered the administration to do whatever is necessary to stabilize Iraq. And by the time the lawyers are finished arguing --- well, the war would be in full swing."