Dave Lindorff: What is This "Iranian Provocation" BS?

[marmar]

What is This "Iranian Provocation" BS?
Tue, 01/08/2008 - 15:35 — dlindorff


Not one news story about this week's latest chapter in the administration's ongoing effort to gin up a crazy war with Iran--the so-called "provocation" caused by Iranian naval speedboats approaching within 200 meters of a US destroyer--mentioned that the US, which sits some 7500 miles away from Iran, has sent a whole fully-armed armada into the Persian Gulf just off Iran's coast.

Or that the Vice President actually flew out to an aircraft carrier that was part of that US armada, and threatened, from the flight deck, to have the US massively attack Iran.

Just who is provoking whom where?

Imagine, for a moment, that Iran had sent its navy to patrol in the Gulf of Mexico, in international waters just off of the coasts of Florida, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana and Texas, and that its leader flew out to one of those ships and threatened to take out America's oil infrastructure.

How do you think the US government would react? How do you think the American people would react?

Do you think the US would send naval vessels out to provokingly sail close to Iranian ships? Do you think the US might do more than that and maybe sink those ships? (Especially if at that very moment Iranian special forces were operating inside the US, creating havoc and supporting subversive elements, as US special forces are already doing in Iran.)

Well duh! Of course they would. .....(more)

The complete piece is at: http://www.thiscantbehappening.net/?q=node/93

[AlertLurker]

1. Again, I believe that we are completely missing the point:

They weren't Iranian boats, they were Iranian Revolutionary Guard boats.

Thanks to Kyl-Lieberman, the Iranian Revolutionary Guard have been classified as a terrorist organization.

Connect the dots: Doesn't King George already have the authority to pursue terrorists wherever/whenever/however he wants without any consultation whatsoever?

Colour me worried.