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DogPoundPup Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-09-08 04:33 PM
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The Russian Conflict In Georgia Could Make War With Iran More Probable
Even though the Mainstream News Media has remained quiet on the issue, the United States sending two more aircraft carrier groups to the Middle-East is alarming at this stage of the failed negotiations between the Europeans, the United States, and Israel. Cheney has been outed for plotting to fabricate a reason for starting a war with Iran - par for the course for a Vice-President that openly shows his disgust for the American people; now, with two more carrier groups, another nuclear submarine, two (2) more U.S. destroyers, a supply ship, and who knows what else has entered the Persian Gulf unannounced:


‘2 US aircraft carriers headed for Gulf’

By ADAM GONN, THE MEDIA LINE NEWS AGENCY 8-7-08

Two additional United States naval aircraft carriers are heading to the Gulf and the Red Sea, according to the Kuwaiti newspaper Kuwait Times.

While the Kuwaiti daily did not name the ships it believed were heading for the Middle East, The Media Line’s defense analyst said they could be the USS Theodore Roosevelt and the USS Ronald Reagan.

Meanwhile, the Arabic news agency Moheet reported at the end of July that an unnamed American destroyer, accompanied by two Israeli naval vessels traveled through the Suez Canal from the Mediterranean. A week earlier, a US nuclear submarine accompanied by a destroyer and a supply ship moved into the Mediterranean, according to Moheet. More

Make no mistake, we have sent extra naval assets to the Middle-East before, and no attack occurred. That was before we found out that Dick Cheney was contemplating duplicating speed boats of the type the Iranians use, bring them into the Persian Gulf covertly, and then man them with heavily armed Navy Seals that would engage in a false-flag firefight with one or more of our ships in the Gulf to precipitate our entry into an Iran war. LINK This is common knowledge and is posted on numerous sites throughout the Internet. It’s extremely hard to avoid war when Darth Cheney is plotting behind the scenes to hatch a plan to force the U.S. into war with Iran, and the eventual outcome of his side-stepping the constitution and the rule of law are apt to cost countless innocent American and Iranian lives.

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Muttocracy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-09-08 04:35 PM
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1. kick. nt
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billyoc Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-09-08 04:46 PM
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2. Since the Iranians decided to privatize their energy sector, The U.S. will DEFEND Iran
to the last soldier. American business interests are at stake in Iran now, and any threat to them will be incinerated with glee.

Sorry to disappoint, but the war's off.
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Prophet 451 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-09-08 06:00 PM
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4. Don't count on it
Remember, it's not about business interests generally but about Haliburton and KBR's interests specifically and about the PNAC plan to "remake" the MidEast.

Personally, I have a sneaking suspician that Cheney, seeing that a Dem victory in November is near inevitible, wants to start as much chaos as possible. The Repubs and media will then blame all that on Obama and they'll be able to ooze back into power in 2012 on a promise to get the country out of Iran.
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billyoc Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-09-08 06:37 PM
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6. Bingo! Halliburton is the company that's been doing business with Iran the whole time.
Edited on Sat Aug-09-08 06:38 PM by billyoc
They're already there, with all of the contacts and infrastructure that they need to exploit Iranian natural resources. Bush once said that "money trumps peace". Well, it trumps war, too.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/7119752/
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Prophet 451 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-09-08 07:03 PM
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7. Point
That is mildly reassuring.
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billyoc Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-09-08 07:40 PM
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8. I just think that the short-term energy profits will outweigh any long-term reconstruction contract
profits, and that just might make the difference. :hi:
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screembloodymurder Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-09-08 05:29 PM
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3. Bush is being played like a fiddle.
They'd like nothing better than to see us in Iran.
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