The King is naked
George Bush has been gallivanting around the Middle East in a desperate effort to save his legacy. However, his efforts to raise the alarm in the Arab states on the southern coast of the Persian Gulf about the danger of Iran came to naught. He forgot that Iran is the major trading partner in the region. And since the leaders of all the nations in the region are Kings or solitary rulers, his calls for Democracy and rule of the people fell on deaf ears.
Does he read ANY briefings at all?
About a week and a half before his trip, we had a little scare where Iranian speed boats zipped around US ships. Actually, those little boats can be quite dangerous, as was proved in a 2002 war game. My goodness, an entire US fleet, including an aircraft carrier, sunk in 10 minutes.
So American military power is not seen as credible either. The locals in the Persian Gulf are saying that American power will someday go home, but that Iran will still be there. Boy did they dis little Georgie.
Our King is naked, but he doesn’t know it.
Posted: January 16th, 2008 under Bushco, Iran, Oil, The Big World Out There.
Comments: 6
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Comment from Pat
Time: January 16, 2008, 1:21 pm
It’s very possible that the threat to those U.S. ships in the Gulf was a hoax. The Navy Times newspaper has reported that the threatening radio message at the end of the video showing Iranian patrol boats swarming near U.S. warships may have come from a prankster rather than from the Iranian vessels. The newspaper said U.S. sailors have heard the prankster - possibly more than one person transmitting “insults and jabbering vile epithets” on unencrypted frequencies.
Comment from Josh Hammond
Time: January 16, 2008, 1:46 pm
Pat, you took the words right out of my mouth. The timing was too good for it not to be a hoax. A pre-text. Not that Bush needs any.
Comment from Leftcoast
Time: January 16, 2008, 5:53 pm
Hoax? Buschco? You can’t be serious?!!
Comment from “Hey Shotgun”
Time: January 16, 2008, 6:35 pm
It frightens me to think his feeble attempt at a legacy, is peace in the middle east, when everything else he has come in contact with results in ass-backwardsness. He’ll likely start an all out war - “mission accomplished”.
Comment from Max
Time: January 16, 2008, 7:23 pm
The hoax was poorly done. The video and audio did not match. What does not seem to have made the US MSM, but was reported on Japanese TV news, was that US ships had actually fired on Iranian vessels the previous month. I don’t have any details.
Also, as far as I understand, the straits of Hormuz are not International waters, but territorial waters of Iran and Oman. The Iranian Navy would then be totally within their rights to check out who is going by.
In any case the President? (should I really capitalize when referring to Georgie?) is wandering the Middle East like a lost soul, trying to tell people he does not believe the NIE his own Intelligence Services came up with.
In Israel, he found a ready audience, but the rest of the Middle East is telling him the problem is the Palestinian issue, not Iran.
Comment from Max
Time: January 16, 2008, 7:38 pm
It seems that the source of the hoax was a certain Bryan Whitman, top media relations officer for the Pentagon.
This link also gives details about the incident previous to this where shots were fired.
The Naval officers on the scene seem anxious to play down the incident. Well, I cannot blame them. In a Naval war with Iran, we will lose, our in the Persian Gulf are sitting ducks.
Out on the deep blue sea, well we will prevail. But we just do not have the capability to stop all those little vessels roaming the Gulf, and it is narrow and crowded.
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