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.

Comments

[Careless Whisper]

this isn't our mission. it's israel's, as well as its neighbors. and yes u guys are right that we got no cred because of all the lies and bullshit but that doesn't mean that this isn't the real deal.

[Tree of Liberty]

I understand your concern but this is a risky game of ultra high stakes that our amatuer fake president is taking on (or possibly his handlers who knows).

With that being said, they pose no real threat to CONUS, but definitely to our forces in the area as we take a hot poker and slap the hornet's nest of Iran.

This is provocation and it will end badly as they may call our bluff and we are in a weak military position as we are stretched beyond our capability as the worst possible time.  Russia and China have treaties with Iran........not good.

Christ is the best example of what to do now...."Blessed is the Peacemakers, for they shall be called the sons of God."- Matthew 5:9

[Careless Whisper]

For by wise guidance thou shalt make thy war; And in the multitude of counsellors there is safety. proverbs 24:6

a time to love, and a time to hate; a time for war, and a time for peace. ecclesiastes 3:8

dewd, please don't quote the bible. it's not really relevant. there's a dictator over there. he's a psycho. he said he will destroy his neighbor -- for starters.  that neighbor has the right to deny him the opportunity to acquire nukes. this isn't complicated. they want to take out his nuke capability, that's it. the people of iran are chill, but they got a psycho runnin the joint. and i don't think our troops should be guarding the opium crops in afgan and i don't think we need to be in iraq anymore. this situation is totally different.

[Panafrican Funk...]

"dewd, please don't quote the bible."

I'd suggest refraining from this as well, your scriptural refutation was nonsensical.

[LeBalance]

which set of psychos do you not wish to have nuclear bombs?

The Royals in Tel Aviv?  The Royals in D.C.?  The Royals in Moscow?  The Royals in Tehran?

Please clarify your position.

[Hdawg]

"this situation is totally different." Did you feel/say the same about Saddam and Iraq before you realised your government controlled media peddled enough fear into mind that you ran blindly into the loving embrace of the state to save you against those 'psychotic Iraqi's'.

Will you say the same about Pakistan??

Will you say the same about a constitutional militia??

Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me.

[Mr Lennon Hendrix]

Thanks GW.  The more news on this the better.  We all need the info.  And we all need to do our part and discuss this with others not in the know.

[Tree of Liberty]

GW I share your desires as well.

"May cool heads prevail."

But I am afraid that the Luciferians of the world in power have green lighted

this next chapter in the very dangerous game of extend and pretend that will

cost us dearly with our Blood and Treasure this time.  There will be blood, as the

Iranians will fight to the death with much better trained and technologically advanced forces.

Prayer is all we have now.

God Bless

[doublethink]

Mr. Market Is Cool Headed

Oil futures down and about to break support at $78. These posts are becoming altogether too alarmist; chill out, folks. It's nice to be informative but rather idiotic to be crying wolf at every news flash.

[caconhma]

Do not expect much from Zionists brainless puppet Obama.

If the Obama economic team was a disaster to the USA, his foreign team is a total catastrophe. 

It appears that American imperialism and its zionist WallStreet masters are becoming absolutely desperate.

Yes, God bless America but, I am afraid, this time it will not help.