Deja Vu

Granted this is from the Smirking Chimp, a left-wing rag, but really, would anything surprise us anymore?

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http://www.smirkingchimp.com/thread/4177

Crime of the Century: Are Bush & Cheney Planning Early Attack on Iran?
by Dave Lindorff | Dec 24 2006 - 8:50am |

Back on October 9, I wrote in The Nation that it looked like the Bush-Cheney gang,
worried about the November election, was gearing up for an unprovoked attack on Iran's
nuclear facilities, with a carrier strike group led by the USS Eisenhower being ordered
to depart a month early from Norfolk, VA to join the already-on-station USS Enterprise.
That article was based on reports from angry sailors based on the Eisenhower who had
leaked word of their mission.

There was, thankfully, no attack on Iran before Election Day, but it is starting to look
like I may have been right about the plan after all, but wrong about the timing.

As the threat of a catastrophic US election-eve attack on Iran started to look increasingly
likely, reports began to trickle out of the Pentagon that the generals and admirals were
protesting. They knew that the US military is stretched to the limit in Iraq and
Afghanistan, and that a war with Iran would be a disaster of historic proportions...
That joint effort appeared to have blocked Bush and Cheney’s war plan, but the reprieve may
have only been temporary.

It now appears that the idea of attacking Iran is again moving forward.
The Eisenhower strike force, armed with some 800 Tomahawk cruise missiles as well as a
fleet of strike aircraft, and already on station in the Arabian Sea for over a month
and a half, has moved into the Persian Gulf. A second carrier group, led by the USS Stennis,
is steaming toward the Gulf, too...

The idea of hitting Iran may make sense from the Bush-Cheney bunker, where the only
consideration is not what's good for the country, but what's good for Bush and Cheney.
After all, if you’re losing your war in Iraq, and if you have hit bottom politically at
home (Bush's public support ratings are now down in the 20s, where Nixon's were just
before his resignation, and Cheney's numbers have been in the teens for months), and if
the public is clamoring for an end to it all--and maybe for your heads, too--expanding the
conflict and putting the nation on a full war footing can look like an attractive even if
desperate gambit.

 

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Sufferin' Prius Envy @ Dec 28 2006, 10:27 PM) [snapback]367973[/snapback]</div>

another right-wing commie pinko hit man on PC. FYI if you were at all familiar with most of my posts and not selectively going for the jugular you would know not only that I peruse daily the five most right-wing pubs I know about but you would know which ones since I have stated so publicly here. So...in order to get as 'educated' as possible you now know I read 5 right wing rags daily. do you? and to be fair, do you read at least 5 left-wing rags daily??? before you lie and say yes, consider that I won't automatically believe you and I am going to test your honesty and ask you which ones and what they said x # of days ago. go ahead and lie now, dude. not all of us are hit men, and do at least try to understand both sides of the aisle. Peace out, sweetie.