Dear Gentlepersons:
Please consider this article:
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POLITICS-US:
Official Version of Naval Incident Starts to Unravel
Analysis by Gareth Porter
WASHINGTON, Jan 10 (IPS) - Despite the official and media portrayal of the incident in the Strait of Hormuz early Monday morning as a serious threat to U.S. ships from Iranian speedboats that nearly resulted in a "battle at sea", new information over the past three days suggests that the incident did not involve such a threat ...
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Given our Iraq experience, it is possible this "incident" is a trial balloon from an Administration interested in a final curtain war with Iran. A USA-Iran War is a bad idea. Therefore, it is best if Congress prevents a second Bush II R+¬gime war of choice.
For reflection: "Naturally the common people don't want war; ... it is the leaders of the country who determine policy, and ... drag the people along, ... tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism ..." ~ H. Goering
With every good wish,
John
There's no doubt that Iran's Revolutionary Guards too often play things perilously close to the edge in these volatile oil-shipping lanes: last March, for example, they seized 15 British naval personnel in the Gulf, and mistreated them during two weeks of interrogations. But let's get all the facts before leaping to conclusions--either, that the Iranians were threatening a USS Cole-type suicide attack on a U.S. naval vessel, or conversely, that the Pentagon hyped the incident as part of some sneaky plan to justify an military strike on Iran.