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Fire Walk With Me

(38,893 posts)
Sat Jan 14, 2012, 05:30 AM Jan 2012

US Military, Government, blatantly lie about Iran escalation/troop movements

Compare and contrast:

http://news.yahoo.com/u-military-moves-carriers-denies-iran-023925806.html

ReutersBy Phil Stewart | Reuters – Wed, Jan 11, 2012

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. military said on Wednesday that a new aircraft carrier strike group had arrived in the Arabian Sea and that another was on its way to the region, but denied any link to recent tensions with Iran and portrayed the movements as routine.

and

http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fg-us-persian-gulf-20120113,0,5991473.story

By David S. Cloud, Los Angeles Times

January 12, 2012, 6:07 p.m.

Marine Corps Gen. James N. Mattis, who heads U.S. Central Command, won White House approval late last year for the deployments of additional troops and warships to the Persian Gulf to deal with Iran and other potential threats.

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US Military, Government, blatantly lie about Iran escalation/troop movements (Original Post) Fire Walk With Me Jan 2012 OP
How many new wars do we have now? lib2DaBone Jan 2012 #1
 

lib2DaBone

(8,124 posts)
1. How many new wars do we have now?
Sat Jan 14, 2012, 06:26 AM
Jan 2012

Yemen, Somalia, Lybia, Syria, Pakistan, Afghan surge, ....

and of course, what a "glorius" day it will be when we invade Iran....

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