The drumbeat towards confronting Iran grows louder:

“WASHINGTON, D.C. ‚Äî A plan by the Bush administration to release detailed and possibly damning specific evidence linking the Iranian government to efforts to destabilize Iraq have been put on hold, U.S. officials told FOX News.

Officials had said a “dossier” against Iran compiled by the U.S. likely would be made public at a press conference this week in Baghdad, and that the evidence would contain specifics including shipping documents, serial numbers, maps and other evidence which officials say would irrefutably link Iran to weapons shipments to Iraq.

Now, U.S. military officials say the decision to go public with the findings has been put on hold for several reasons, including concerns over the reaction from Iran’s President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad ‚Äî as well as inevitable follow-up questions that would be raised over what the U.S. should do about it.

U.S. reaction to continued Iranian meddling in Iraq also was the subject Tuesday of a Senate Foreign Relations Committee confirmation hearing for John Negroponte, in line to become the nation’s No. 2 diplomat.

During pointed questioning, Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., told Negroponte, “What I think many of us are concerned about is that we stumble into active hostilities with Iran without having aggressively pursued diplomatic approaches, without the American people understanding exactly what’s taking place.”

Word to Obama, this isn’t a time for understanding, it’s a time for reaction! You just told us everything we need to know about how you would perform as Commander and Chief IF you became President. No thanks.

The evidence (which I have had privy to a portion) IS damning. I cannot go into it specifically here, but the evidence is substantial. Some of the information has already “leaked” to the media that Iranian agents had a hand in training insurgents who killed five of our soldiers in a attack on January 20th at Karbala.

It’s only the beginning of what will be coming out.

Of course none of this means squat to “Presidential God-Forbids” like Biden, Hagel, Obama and the rest of the cut and run crowd as they would rather talk with the killers of our troops than fight them.

But at least you should know why now 20-25,000 extra troops in the region is helpful and needed.

UPDATE: Just for the record, Iranian involvement was on the radar back in March of 2006.