Unnamed Pentagon Officials: Straits of Hormuz Incident: ALMOST CERTAINLY-A FAKE

[kpete]

Straits of Hormuz Incident: almost certainly a fake
by dday
Thu Jan 10, 2008 at 10:20:16 AM PST

After a few days of scrutiny, the Straits of Hormuz "incident" with Iranian gunships is completely falling apart. Not for the President - he's still using it as a scaremongering tool - but for anyone who's seriously looking at this thing.

It's important to note that non-events like this happen in the Gulf with regularity. In military parlance it's described as "free training. And certainly, from the video released by the Pentagon, it doesn't look like a whole lot more than that. I guess they felt like they had to spruce it up more. So they added this additional audio track that sounds like a random bad guy from Iron Eagle or something, threatening the American ships:

Audio and video, Links and more at:
http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2008/1/10/131910/754/859/434427

The audio really makes you laugh out loud. Apparently there are plenty of people at the Pentagon who feel the same way:

The list of those who are less than fully confident in the Pentagon’s video/audio mashup of aggressive maneuvers by Iranian boats near American warships in the Strait of Hormuz now includes the Pentagon itself.

Unnamed Pentagon officials said on Wednesday that the threatening voice heard in the audio clip, which was released on Monday night with a disclaimer that it was recorded separately from the video images and merged with them later, is not directly traceable to the Iranian military.
http://thelede.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/01/10/degrees-of-confidence-on-us-iran-naval-incident/

[aquart]

1. Georgie, about this crying "Wolf!" thing....

[AndyA]

2. Why I'm shocked! SHOCKED I TELL YOU!!

I just can't believe that Bush would try to make something bigger out of this than there is.

Surely he wouldn't pull a stunt like this for political gain!!!

:sarcasm:

[babylonsister]

3. And this is what the dim one is using to up the terra against Iran

in this country? We can't afford to take much more of this horseshit.

[zorahopkins]

4. Get Bush Out Of Office!

It is time to impeach Bush and Cheney -- right now!!

What will it take for our elected leaders to do what needs to be done?

If this doesn't do it, WHAT WILL??

[superkia]

15. There are few elected leaders that are against the elites agenda.

You can look at the whole Iraq war and see where they stand on who they represent. Or look at what is happening to the constitution, its all a big game that the corrupt elite are winning as we lose miserably. Just do the best you can and accept that life as we all thought we knew, is over. Soon we will be a part of the north American union and our rights will be gone, well the ones that they want to take from us, they will keep us thinking that we are ok so they can use us a slaves to continue running the country for them. Man it must be nice to have no feelings or conscience and to be a part of that elite group. Too bad I wasn't born into a corrupt elite family.

[tridim]

5. This is good news, but the original story is the one that will stick with the public.

And this story will be buried where most people wont see it. It's Neocon 101.

[slackmaster]

6. "Unnamed officials" have zero credibility

This story is bogus.

[HeraldSquare212]

7. I thought that voice sounded a little bit like Dick Cheney nt

[kestrel91316]

8. Gosh, I'm really shocked to hear this.

NOT.

[seemslikeadream]

9. Oh really?

[Blarch]

10. K&R

This should be a big story.

[Poiuyt]

11. Wasn't the original video released by the Pentagon?

And now they're saying that it's fake?

[bleever]

12. "I am coming to you...You will explode after two minutes."

Not even moose and squirrel can save you now.

[countryjake]

13. This tape will self-destruct in 30 seconds...

what a chuckle it is...except, most likely, some poor gob on that fleet will end up being "held responsible" for the deceit, not whatever war-mongering official actually came up with the hoax.

The prez was using this incident this morning during his press briefing in Ramallah, if I'm not mistaken.

[NRaleighLiberal]

14. "president Bush*: MOST certainly a fake!!!! nt