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Showdown: U.S. Sends Warships to Confront Iran
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I am re-posting this week-old essay in light of Tyler and Marla's recent reports about American war ships near Iran and this report from Haaretz saying that the G-8 expects Israel to strike Iran.
Israel National News is reporting :
Egypt allowed at least one Israeli and 11 American warships to pass through the Suez Canal as an Iranian flotilla flotilla approaches Gaza.
What
should we make of the fact that 11 U.S. warships and an Israeli warship
are sailing up the Suez Canal on their way to the Red Sea?
This
is - on the surface - a faceoff over Iran's support for relief ships
trying to sail into Gaza. Specifically, Iran has said it will have
Iranian military ships escort the flotilla providing humanitarian goods
to Gaza to make sure it arrives safely. On the other hand, the U.S. has
backed Israel's blockade of Gaza.
Tensions are obviously high
between the U.S. and Israel, on the one hand, and Iran on the other.
The U.S. and Israel have talked for years of bombing Iran's nuclear
sites.
As the Telegraph wrote last July:
Israeli warships have deployed to the Red Sea for what has been described as a rehearsal for a possible attack on Iran.
Israeli and Egyptian officials said two ships had sailed through the Suez Canal into the Red Sea.
Media reports in Israel said the two Saar-class missile ships had been sent as a "message" to the Tehran government....
An armada of U.S. warships in the Red Sea is similarly meant to convey a credible threat to attack Iran.
Indeed, because the Red Sea connects with the Arabian Sea (and see this), a large navy presence in the Red Sea will escalate tensions dramatically.
This
could quickly lead to a real confrontation. This is especially true
because warships from hostile nations could be in very close quarters,
and one mistake (such as accidentally bumping into a foreign ship)
could unintentionally lead to war.
But we can't look at this faceoff in a vacuum.
Intelligence Failures
Remember that there have been numerous intelligence failures in the past which have led to war.
For
example, the U.S. Navy's own historians now say that the sinking of the
USS Maine -- the justification for America's entry into the
Spanish-American War -- was probably caused by an internal explosion of coal, rather than an attack by the Spanish.
It is also now well-accepted that the Gulf of Tonkin Incident which led to the Vietnam war was a fiction (confirmed here).
And two lies were used to justify the 1991 Gulf War: the statement that Iraqis murdered Kuwaiti babies and the statement that a quarter of a million Iraqi troops were massed on the border with Saudi Arabia (see also this article)(technically, the statement about Kuwaiti babies did not come from the U.S. government, but from a public relations firm hired by the government).
Who Dunnit?
While
- as documented above - inaccurate reports have helped rally support
for war, other methods for drumming up support have been used as well.
As I wrote in February:
Forget the claims and allegations that false flag terror
- governments attacking people and then blaming others in order to
create animosity towards those blamed - has been used throughout
history.
This essay will solely discuss government admissions to the use of false flag terror.
For example:
- The CIA admits
that it hired Iranians in the 1950's to pose as Communists and stage
bombings in Iran in order to turn the country against its
democratically-elected president
- Israel admits
that an Israeli terrorist cell operating in Egypt planted bombs in
several buildings, including U.S. diplomatic facilities, then left
behind "evidence" implicating the Arabs as the culprits (one of the
bombs detonated prematurely, allowing the Egyptians to identify the
bombers, and several of the Israelis later confessed) (and see this and this)
- The well-respected former Indonesian president admits that the government probably had a role in the Bali bombings
- The former Italian Prime Minister, an Italian judge, and the former head of Italian counterintelligence admit that NATO,
with the help of the Pentagon and CIA, carried out terror bombings in
Italy and blamed the communists, in order to rally people’s support for
their governments in Europe in their fight against communism. As one participant in this formerly-secret program stated: "You
had to attack civilians, people, women, children, innocent people,
unknown people far removed from any political game. The reason was
quite simple. They were supposed to force these people, the Italian
public, to turn to the state to ask for greater security" (and see this)(Italy joined NATO in 1949, years before the bombings occurred)
- As admitted by
the U.S. government, recently declassified documents show that in the
1960's, the American Joint Chiefs of Staff signed off on a plan to blow up AMERICAN airplanes (using an elaborate plan involving the switching of airplanes), and also to commit terrorist acts on American soil, and then to blame it on the Cubans in order to justify an invasion of Cuba. See the following ABC news report; the official documents; and watch this interview with the former Washington Investigative Producer for ABC's World News Tonight with Peter Jennings [while
the Joint Chiefs of Staff pushed for Operation Northwoods to be carried
out, cooler heads prevailed; President Kennedy or his Secretary of
Defense Robert McNamara apparently vetoed the plan]There are many other instances of false flag attacks used throughout history proven by the historical evidence. See this, this and this. The above are only some examples of governments admitting to using false flag terror.
Iran
Many high-level people have warned of the use of a false flag attack to justify war with Iran. For example:
- Jimmy Carter's former National Security Adviser and Obama's initial foreign policy adviser- Zbigniew Brzezinski - told the Senate that a terrorist act might be carried out in the U.S. and falsely blamed on Iran to justify war against that nation
- Congressman Ron Paul told
Congress: "I am concerned, however, that a contrived Gulf of Tonkin-
type incident may occur to gain popular support for an attack on Iran"
- And a member of the British Parliament (George Galloway) stated:
"there is a very real danger" that the American government will stage a
false flag terror attack in order to justify war against Iran
Thus,
if any elements within the U.S. or Israeli government wish to find an
excuse to attack Iran, they could either manufacture false intelligence
or carry out a false flag attack.
A war with Iran would benefit no one other than the giant defense contractors would plunge the world into a very deep depression (notwithstanding George W. Bush's sentiment to the contrary). Indeed, if China and Russia side with Iran, the U.S. might end up losing against Iran.
May cool heads prevail.
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I'm looking for a King David Hotel type of event before this confrontation with Iran is over. Of course the US's global standing will suffer and Israel will simply embrace a new protector.
thank you george for clarity and sanity in the turgid world of lies.
"For example, the U.S. Navy's own historians now say that the sinking of the USS Maine -- the justification for America's entry into the Spanish-American War -- was probably caused by an internal explosion of coal, rather than an attack by the Spanish."
no, it wasn't coal....it was a mine placed by a coalition of american industrialists and cuban revolutionaries....it was no accident....it was pure blackops - the mine being supplied by a danish/peruvian mine inventor....roosevelt lusted so badly for that war that he resigned his position in the navy to lead americans in the phony war....
the murderous blood thirsty obama goons are hell-bent on having their war - life is about to get very ugly for americans and iranians....
The ships are there for the obvious reason, to support our war in Afghanistan.
Then why all the flimsy, tired, anti-Iranian rhetoric in the MSM? Surely, after unnecessarily invading the countries immediately to the east and west of Iran, not to mention generally occupying 90% of the ME, it isn't a stretch to envision a false flag and subsequent invasion. It's the recipe. War is a racket.
You gotta read Wild Fire by Nelson DeMille.
The U.S is surrounded by many educated and high thinking societies who only have the world's best interests in mind. And we should just take their advice and go along with this and that and the other, until they are satisfied.
As a U.S. Citizen, I recognize our economic crisis, our monetary crisis (unfolding), and our uncompetitive workforce compared to just about everyone (education, skills). If I recognize this, so do top gov't and military officials. They're not as bubbled up as you probably think. The United States has one leg to stand on, and it is BFG, or BIG FUCKING GUN to the layperson.
When a stronger and quicker animal is being outsmarted or feels threatened, the natural reaction will be to attack those it perceives as threats to its survival. The United States has no alternative but military force to distract and level what it perceives as a playing field it no longer recognizes. By torching the field, the other players will be hampered and weakened.
I expect major military activities to increase drastically, while our one major advantage in the world (seven carrier battle groups last I checked ten years ago) still remains an advantage. Might makes right, whether you like it or not. We will use our military trump card again and again, relying on the disconnected, apathetic, and useless masses not to do much except yell and protest and complain but ultimately not act, due to inferior military strength and fear of mutually assured nuclear destruction.
Or we can just fade away into the back seat of the world car pool of power and control, despite our nature and historical behavior.
Follow The Money
Alon Pinkas is former Israeli consul general to the US. Speaking to a seminar of foreign and Israeli journalists at the IDC Herzliya last week, he argued that a turning point has been reached in bilateral relations. "In reality, US interests in the Middle East are with the Arab world. That is where the oil is, and Israel is just one small country surrounded by 290 million Arabs," he said.
http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/LF29Ak02.html
Excessive Tom Clancey reading + tin foil hat + a series of half-assed alarmist blog postings interpeting overt routine naval task force movements as evidence of an imminent military strike on Iran = a revalent, cutting edge financial blog being bogged down with pointless arguments over everyones preferred fantasy of ww3.
Oh well, if ya cant beat em, heres my version pulled straight from MY ass.
The Iranian relief vessel is piloted by suicide bombers who will detonate the whole damn ship when Isreali commandoes attempt to board it. Ok I admit it, that was kinda lame, but just as valid as any conjecture here.
"Ok I admit it, that was kinda lame"
That was the only thing you said that made sense.
I'm glad this is being discussed.. Our Zionist/Neocon masters should know there is more than a handful of well read people that are prepared to beat down their nonsensical rhetoric about how evil brown people are.
Yep. I like this part:
LOL. Let me try: "Iran will blow up the moon. That's as valid as anything else posted here."
Idiot Obama had an opportunity last summer when the students and younger generation were openly revolting. He did nothing. Commander Zero all but ensured someone would have to attack the psychos in Iran and unleash hell on earth. The mexican border is wide open, what are the chances a few nukes got smuggled in just waiting for us to strike Iran.
This will not end pretty.
People learned from Gulf War I never to trust the USA: The people living in the marshes rebelled against saddam because Bush I told them that "regime change" was in hand; and then promply left Saddam there to murder them!
The Iranians are not stupid; they know that the US always lies to brown people and only cares about the rights of it's oligarchs. If the US had intervened, every protester would have run away, because they would know that, somehow, they would be set up to die at the hands of the mullahs.
How did you channel that date Nathan?
All these events happen on special dates. Also 11th July is a new moon day . So reaction time at the bombed location will be slower than normal.
The US armada has made it's way there.
11th July 830pm S African local time is the finals of the World Cup FIFA.
That would mean after 10 pm Teheran time . The event is supposed to garner 200 million viewers around the world. The necessary distraction is already there. Remember Georgia invasion took place when both Bush & Putin were at the Chinese Olympics.
The summer is nearly over. Oil will be hit but time is available for setting right supplies before the onset of winter. Putting off a strike now will end up putting it off for many more months too. It is extremely possible that the economic collpase and the attack will take place simultaneously. Patriotism will be the call to forget the pains the governments have given you, as also to exercise more control over all of us.
total solar eclipse: 15:34 on the Eastern US Coast.
Me thinks it may happen on 11th July 2010
Ugh, the chaos is killing me. It's not okay to only have a debt crisis all across the board with the conclusion that future generations are being robbed, while the current one is being raped. Now TPTB are taking the warfare option as well, so that the milliatry-industrial complex is happy and continues to donate to the Washingtocrats, while at the same time the sheeple have a new intellectual topic for discussion (right next to Dancing With The Stars and American Idol).
Can we all just agree that this is the endgame, call it a day, and start anew?
The US is THE terrorist rogue state of the world; Israel is its Mini-Me - it's all there is to know :p
Backwards
The "false flag" as you call it is nothing new. There's always a straw that breaks the camels back. But you can't deny that the camel has been burdened with many straws over the years.
LOMFL!!!!
I live in the Middle East. You can't take a shit without the US being involved. We are practically a US colony.
If anyone is painting a picture of camels, burden and straws around here it's the US.
Did you think the same about Saddam and Iraq before your country betrayed your loyalty?
We need a draft, no exemptions, with the children of current and past presidents and of current and past congressmen and senate first in line.
Thank you for expressing that so accurately and succinctly.
Perhaps Careless Whisperer will volunteer in the event a draft isn't instated.
When the U.S. Army released its own video game a few years ago, I remember wondering what they were thinking.
Now I know.
Damn war-mongers.
Why should the Israelis run the risks of bombing?
Why not just wait until the next election and distribute sacks of cash and plant false rumours to discredit the democratically elected leadership and then impose a new leader, say a relative of the Shah and have him build a secret police force that will torture these nuclear fools and pull them limb from limb on the rack.
To hell with the Iranian people. This Shah would be the USA and IDF's man in Tehran. Supply him with all the hardware he needs to pull the fingernails of half the population and drill out the knees of the the other half. Such a strategy will not make us loved but it will surely ease mid east tensions and solve everybodies problems.
Glad I got junked.
My proposal was ironic. Britain and the US did in fact destabilize Iran, did depose a democratically elected government, did assist in the imposition of a regime of terror as bad as that of Saddham Hussein, did look the other way as the SVAK terrorized the citzenry and then when they got upset with the Iranian people for having the temerity to pursue thier version of life, liberty and happiness they supplied chemical weapons (or precursors) to Saddham and otherwise assisted him in the prosecution of a war that lasted 10 years and claimed over a million combatants.
America treats other human beings like dog shit and then gets uppity when those same turds seek to obtain the means to defend themselves against such treatment.
Add up the foreign entanglements of the Iranians since Alexander the Great. The number? 0. And we are looking at several centuries. Add up the foreign entanglements of the USA in the past 200 years. You loose count pretty fast.
While I disagree with your "hell to the Iranian people" attitude, I do often wonder why assassinations aren't more in vogue.
I mean, we're sending 1000's of troops over there with an absurd price-tag -- and their mission (if not their goal) involves killing people -- why not just cut to the chase, save tens, if not hundreds, of thousands of innocent lives and take out their leadership?
Assassination is much more preferable from both a moral and a financial standpoint. Innocents need not die. Leadership (of any country -- including ours) has always been a fair target in war. What we need is some good old fashioned black-ops.
(The reason we don't do this of course, is because our leadership pretends to be brave when it comes to sending armies -- but to assassinate foreign leadership is to invite response-in-kind. And our leadership is chickenshit when it comes to their own lives.)
+1E100
they prefer war since is created money to some few.
good thought... assassinations would be an extremely effective intervention if the point were to neutralize the political threats waved in our faces as justification for war...howevere..
the true goal is profit... the global financiers would not profit from such a strategic and cheap approach to the problem... it is far more profitable if the world is required to spend quadrillions of dollars in a long, drawn out and messy conflict... dollars that we must borrow from the US federal reserve bank... and pay back with interest to its owners..
(1) Complete removal of populations in Iraq and Afghanistan.
(2) Sustain the human sacrifice of all combatant forces involved.
(3) Sustain and continue deprivation of privileges in United States.
(4) Cover for complete and utter lawlessness of present and past administrations and their owners.
Adds up to: Massive Uptick in Total Human Suffering. A Luciferian Goal is Met.
Cha-Ching!
+100
Assassins and saboteurs would have kept Saddam in line for just a few million dollars per year.
Obama probably wants to mirandize battlefield combatants... talk about making a war drag on.
There would be little profit for the special interests.
Truly. They have to use the old bombs before they get new ones. And they like testing kewl stuff on civilians anyway. These murderers don't think like your average citizen, walking down the street, worried about mortgage payments and the upcoming culling of the herd at work.
The Tweetin Greenies already tried that last year.
Fail.
Who has killed more, Loonytuneajahd or the USA?
Might makes right and ever will.
Quick, give EVERYBODY a nobel peace prize. and Chocolate!
I forgot, war is peace.
Just like night has been turning into day since known history, us humans have come to places in our de-velopment when it comes time to self-destruct.
Remember all the anti-war protests? Where did they bring us except into a more divided common populace. The go-go gang vs. the go-slow gang.
But it works brilliantly every time for for the opinion makers.
Divided? Yup! Excellent.
In my view, as the world outside continues to spin into self-induced, tech driven oblivion, we have the best opportunity now to turn inwards.
Maya and her semantic opposite Yama (the lord of death) are in a close-embrace dance right now.
I, for 1, prefer to dance to the beat of my inner drummer.
ORI
http://aadivaahan.wordpress.com
- Why can't we just annex New Zealand??? - it's there for the taking.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RenRILqwhJs
What is the point? There are no mullahs there.
no oil? no interest... er, I mean, er "nukes, wmds, bad people" etc..
it's laughable how the MSM play your average Joes. still smarting from the last round of lies and propaganda turning out to be just that, but always ready to believe the next..
duh. truly.
do u want that psycho to have nukes? are u out of ur mind? he's made it perfectly clear that he will totally destroy israel. then who's the next victim over ther? do u think he's bluffin? israel and the rest of em can't take that chance. by now they know their targets. i would expect a surgical strike. they got no choice. ur naive if u think otherwise.
"do u want that psycho to have nukes"
Mindless Whisper, the psyco with nukes is Israel. They have even stated as much. I read in an article from an Israeli paper that Israel has nukes pointed at European capitols and would use them. I've also read the WANT to be percieved as a "mad dog". They kill women and children indiscriminately. It is the Israeli Jew that places no value on any life accept their own.
Please get your head out of your ass and at least TRY to overcome your life-long conditioning by Jewish ran media and entertainment. The world is depending on it..
More than ever, we need this Israeli CANCER to go away from the pages of history..
Future generations will look at this American generation as fat lazy fools who had no desire for truth. No desire to be informed, but simply to be told. It is a sad state of affairs we are in... If there is a God.. and the Jews are his chosen.. I will not be spending my after life with him..
Iran talks the talk, but Israel has been walking the walk for decades. Open your eyes, Magoo.
Who says's he's a psycho? The Mainstream Media (MSM)? The same MSM who told us all about Saddam's WMDs to justify a war of aggression on Iraq? The same ones that told us that Osama Bin Laden was responsible for 9-11 to justify a war of aggression on Afghanistan, when all the evidence points to Israel being responsible?
Iran hasn't attacked or invaded anyone for over 300 years. Try to say the same about Israel or the USA. Personally I know which of the three countries I would prefer to have nukes. As well as that, every country is entitled to nuclear weapons as defence if they so desire. If I was Iran and I had maniacal Israel trying to drum up war against me and mis-quoting me e.g. that "he's made it perfectly clear that he will totally destroy israel", I would want nukes as well.
If you want to really find the mindset of Israel listen to an ex-Jewish, ex-Israeli who served in the IDF and came to extremely disturbing conclusions, amongst others that the nukes they have aren't for their immediate neighbours but are for the rest of the world:
http://theuglytruth.podbean.com/
Dr. Alan Sabrosky (who is Jewish BTW), former director of studies at the US Army War College says that the military brass now know that Israel and traitors within the US committed the 911 attack:
http://theuglytruth.podbean.com/2010/03/14/the-ugly-truth-podcast-march-...
Not to mention the sinking of the USS Liberty and the King David Hotel bombing.
Can you see a pattern here?
If you care so much about a psycho with nukes, why do you allow fascist, genocidal fanatics like Avgidor Lieberman have them at his disposal with nary a peep?
And hell, only one country has ever used them - why does that provide a moral high ground?
Iran has made it clear to the entire world that if they are attacked by the forces of (White) imperialism, they will defend themselves. Your assertion is an outright fabrication. If you want to look at who actually did make comments like those you describe, look to the White, apartheid colony for which you're now backstopping.
I find it's much more relevant to concentrate on what is than over what might be if your own fanatical delusions and fears are realized someday in the future.
Well you obviously dont know too much about history, can you name 1 nation Iran has invaded in the last 100 years? I doubt it, because they havn't invaded anyone. Also even IF they had a nuke, what would they do with it? Drop it on Isreal? That would be suicide, I very much doubt Iran is that stupid.
Also Iran has never stated it wanted to 'destory' Isreal, only that it didnt recognise it as a state. And I agree with this statement on the basis that a state needs to have borders, Isreal doesnt techinicaly have borders i.e. it technicaly isn't a state
Capitan Obvious? Obviously, you haven't been listening ... Ahmadinejad has made it very clear that it is Iran's aim to eliminate the Zionists once and for all.
His quote is more accurately translated as Israel will cease to exist as an entity.
The Zionists' aim is to have the entire Biblical Israel as theirs, and they're well on their way to doing so. They have publicly stated many times by many of their leaders they will use terror and murder and all means neccessary to achieve these aims.
So why wouldn't Ahmadinejad (and the rest of the Middle East) want them gone?
Carless Whisper,
Respectfully, how is our record at preemptive war or have you forgotten about DMD's and oops we have to take away your rights to save and protect you.
They want you to live in fear so you will swallow every lie they float.
Remember, "Those who will sacrifice Liberty for security shall have neither."
<Remember, "Those who will sacrifice Liberty for security shall have neither.">
100+...
yet we continue down this same path...
"If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issuance of their currency, first by inflation and then by deflation, the banks and corporations that will grow up around them will deprive the people of all their property until their children will wake up homeless on the continent their fathers conquered." - thomas jefferson
the true beneficiearies of the expansion of war are the financiers for the entire cherade... the private share holders of the US federal reserve bank (ben's true bosses) are watering at the mouth for the oppertunity to collect more interest on the "currency" they create out of thin air and lend to our "leaders" so that they may continue to rain death and destruction upon our neighbors... opps... i mean enemies...very profitable!
oops WMD's