War signals with Iran

[serryjw]

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As reports circulate of a sharp debate within the White House over possible US military action against Iran and its nuclear enrichment facilities, The Nation has learned that the Bush Administration and the Pentagon have issued orders for a major "strike group" of ships, including the nuclear aircraft carrier Eisenhower as well as a cruiser, destroyer, frigate, submarine escort and supply ship, to head for the Persian Gulf, just off Iran's western coast. This information follows a report in the current issue of Time magazine, both online and in print, that a group of ships capable of mining harbors has received orders to be ready to sail for the Persian Gulf by October 1.

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According to Lieut. Mike Kafka, a spokesman at the headquarters of the Second Fleet, based in Norfolk, Virginia, the Eisenhower Strike Group, bristling with Tomahawk cruise missiles, has received recent orders to depart the United States in a little over a week. Other official sources in the public affairs office of the Navy Department at the Pentagon confirm that this powerful armada is scheduled to arrive off the coast of Iran on or around October 21.
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http://www.thenation.com/doc/20061009/lindorff

[HysteryDiagnosis]

1. My my my.... imagine if Iran sent an armada into the gulf

coast area... perhaps up Chesapeake Bay, or into San Francisco Bay.... imagine how Faux Snooze would drool... er foam at the mouth.

[Jcrowley]

2. Iran Preparing for US Air Attacks

The March to War: Iran Preparing for US Air Attacks
by Mahdi Darius Nazemroaya

Iran is bracing itself for an expected American-led air campaign. The latter is in the advanced stages of military planning.  
  
If there were to be war between the United States and Iran, the aerial campaign would unleash fierce combat. It would be fully interactive on multiple fronts. It would be a difficult battle involving active movement in the air from both sides.  
  
If war were to occur, the estimates of casualties envisaged by American and British war planners would be high. The expected wave of aerial attacks would resemble the tactics of the Israeli air-war against Lebanon and would follow the same template, but on a larger scale of execution.  
  
The U.S. government and the Pentagon had an active role in graphing, both militarily and politically, the template of confrontation in Lebanon. The Israeli siege against Lebanon is in many regards a dress rehearsal for a planned attack on Iran.1   

http://globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=viewArticle&code=N20060921&articleId=3299