"Joint Chiefs head hints at Iran 'action'"
"by Ann Scott Tyson, Washington Post | April 26, 2008
WASHINGTON - The nation's top military officer said yesterday that the Pentagon is planning for "potential military courses of action" against Iran, criticizing what he called the Tehran government's "increasingly lethal and malign influence" in Iraq.
And when they PREPARE for them, they usually DO THEM!!!
Admiral Michael Mullen, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said a conflict with Iran would be "extremely stressing" but not impossible for US forces, pointing specifically to reserve capabilities in the Navy and Air Force.
Are you smelling the same shitstink of a DRAFT that I am, readers?
"It would be a mistake to think that we are out of combat capability," he said at a Pentagon news conference.
DRAFT!!!!
Still, Mullen made clear that he prefers a diplomatic solution to the tensions with Iran and does not foresee any imminent military action. "I have no expectations that we're going to get into a conflict with Iran in the immediate future," he said.
Well, it is not up to you, sir, it is up to Dogshit Dick and the asshole Anti-Christ George W. Bush!!!!
Therefore, we ARE going to conflict with Iran in the immediate future!
You DON'T RUN a MARATHON to QUIT on the LAST MILE!!!!
Mullen's statements and others by Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates recently signal a new rhetorical onslaught by the Bush administration against Iran, amid what officials say is increased Iranian provision of weapons, training, and financing to Iraqi groups that are attacking and killing Americans.
And we KNOW WHAT THAT IS!
Remember the run-up to IRAQ, ladies and gentlemen?
All THOSE LIES?
In a speech Monday at West Point, Gates said Iran "is hell-bent on acquiring nuclear weapons." He said a war with Iran would be "disastrous on a number of levels. But the military option must be kept on the table given the destabilizing policies of the regime and the risks inherent in a future Iranian nuclear threat."
Here we go again!
Army General David H. Petraeus, the top US commander in Iraq, who was nominated this week to head all US forces in the Middle East, is preparing a briefing soon to lay out detailed evidence of what is believed to be increased Iranian involvement in Iraq, Mullen said.
The briefing will detail, for example, the discovery in Iraq of weapons that were very recently manufactured in Iran, he said.
"The Iranian government pledged to halt such activities some months ago," Mullen said. "It's plainly obvious they have not. Indeed, they seem to have gone the other way."
He said recent unrest in the southern Iraqi city of Basra had highlighted a "level of involvement" by Iran that had not been understood by the US military previously.
"It became very, very visible in ways that we hadn't seen before," he said.
Whatever, liars!
In a confrontation early Thursday, a cargo ship contracted by the US military fired "several bursts" of warning shots at two fast boats that approached in international waters off the Iranian coast, defense officials said yesterday.
The unidentified small boats approached the Westward Venture, a ship carrying US military hardware, as it headed north through the central Persian Gulf, said a spokeswoman for the Navy's Fifth Fleet, which is based in Bahrain.
The US ship initiated bridge-to-bridge communications, and, after receiving no response, it fired a flare.
The speed boats continued to approach, so the ship fired warning shots with a .50-caliber machine gun and M16 rifle. The boats then left the area, she said."Yeah, WHOSE BOATS WERE THOSE?
