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US defense officials, say that as the Westward Venture; a cargo ship chartered by our Defense Department cutting through open waters was approached by a pair of unidentified smaller ships Thursday.
When the boats did not respond to radio signals or a warning flare, the cargo ship's security officers fired "a few bursts" of machine gun and rifle warning shots, according to spokeswoman for the U.S. Navy's Bahrain-based Fifth Fleet, Commander Lydia Robertson,
In a telephone conversation, she claimed that, "The small boats left the area a short time later. They were able to avoid a serious incident by following the procedures that we use." I have my doubts. My first question is, in what language were the mercenary cargo ships employees engaging the ships? Were the ships ever identified? No! How do we know they were not also American ships, or Turkish ships, or Iraqi fishermen, or Blackwater Ships, or if there actually were any ships? My guess, the Cheney Bushites want to create an incident, even if it is of their own making. Have they decided to pretend to have been attacked to start a war? Odd that they fired and the other ships did not, isn't it? It should be mandatory that all commercial traffic and mercenary traffic by air, land or sea have every moment of their travels video recorded. There is little doubt in my mind that the Bushites will attack or fake an Iran attack before the election, to kick off a World War, so they can declare Martial Law and cancel the election. With the pussy-footed, ballet dancing, by the nose-ring, leader of the congress at the helm, the Bushites can do just about anything they damn well want to with impunity. God, I hate cowards! The MSM Bought, hook line and sinker the that that meager news pushed oil prices up over three dollars to $119.50 a barrel for gasoline that costs the Oil firms $00.88 cents-$1.49 cents a barrel and $00.02 cents a gallon, a clear 210% profit By the way even at $120 per barrel, since the USA processes 44.2 gallons to a barrel, still leaves the (BS) price per barrel at $2.71 a gallon. Once again we have the BS that "traders worried escalating tensions in the region could eventually disrupt crude shipments," all of these "traders worried about this or that" is hogwash, I played the market daily for three years, those minor annoyances have no bearing oil the cost of any thing except in the minds of amateurs. Moreover, how does something that affects an incident today affect the price of the billions of barrels of oil already delivered? U.S. defense officials, speaking anonymously, at first were saying that they believed that the tiny ships fired upon were Iranian. That was more, I believe the Cheney ordered crew version, and the Fifth Fleet rapidly repudiated that phony charge. They were, if there even were any ships, probably heavily unarmed, fishermen. Once again a Lieutenant, Stephanie Murdoch, said, "We cannot speculate on who they are. We just don't know. We have no proof of who they were." So, there! Meanwhile over in Tehran, an Iranian navy spokesperson, said there was no such confrontation with any US ship in the Gulf. However, and here is the interesting part, the spokesperson, quoted by a journalist for Iran's Arabic Al-Alam TV channel, said if any shooting did occur, it well may have been an Iranian ship that was targeted... While the MSM and the Bushites are busy pretending that Iran is stupid enough to threaten the US between Tehran and Washington are strained about Iran's fictional nuclear program (More WMD's, the great figment, wet-dream of the fascist oil companies) and who are convinced that the continuing violence in Iraq is of Bushite manufacture and the Bushites are busy trying to blame Iran for actions that mercenaries and others are fomenting, to keep taxpayer-paid troops there thereby subsidizing Socialized Oil Companies with the largest corporate welfare program in world history, an anti-FDR redistribution of the wealth, a reverse Robin Hood.
Which is proof of what I said originally, Prescott Bush failed to have FDR assassinated by the WW I vets, 500,000 strong camping in the parks near the capital, seeking their pensions left a memo or some inherited trait that mandated undoing what FDR did (Which FDR to make America strong). We foot the bill and the Bushite Fascist oil firms keep the profits, as they kill and maim to the tune of 4,000,000 casualties while American boys and girls are dying for the oil companies. I say nationalize the oil companies, they are already socialized. Which a $3 trillion bodyguard, the US military, and the No-Bid contractor thieves. Counting the $5.9 Trillion Surplus Clinton left, they have SOCIALIZED THE OIL INDUSTRY and the Military Medical Industrial Complex to the tune of (and then bribe the dumb bastards with a few hundred each, so they could go buy more ring tones, at their favorite place of high education... the MALL), thus redistributing our wealth the already richest men in the world. $8.9 trillion American Taxpayer Dollars, Don't you want your money back?
It is easily known that the hostile rhetoric and bogus close encounters in the Gulf are another war-in-the-making and idiots continue to believe the Bushites that Iran is the villain here. Meanwhile, in the background, just to show what a lie it all is, the United States and Iran have been engaged in secret discussions over the last the last five years concerning Iran's nuclear strategy/program and the wider relationship between the two enemies. One of the participants, former senior US diplomat Thomas Pickering, explained that former American diplomats and experts had been meeting with Iranian academics and policy advisers in various places, except in the USA or Iran. U.S. claims that Iranian strategists are in on threats against its ships. Let us see here just who fired upon whom, and why? In January, for example, the United States said five small Iranian speedboats aggressively approached three U.S. Navy ships in the Strait of Hormuz, a critical crude oil shipping route. During the confrontation, a radio message was received warning the U.S. ships they could explode within minutes. However, Iran said its boats were simply trying to identify the U.S. vessels and maritime experts said the threatening message might have come not from the Iranian boats but from a radio heckler known as "the Filipino monkey." Is he a Bushite provoketeer, paid to start a war? In March, another U.S. military-chartered ship preparing to cross the Suez Canal fired warning shots at a small boat, killing an Egyptian on board. Admiral Michael Mullen, chairman of the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff, America's top military officer, charged Iran with escalating help for Iraqi militias and warned that the United States had military options to force Tehran to stop. "When I say I don't want to take any military options off the table, that certainly more than implies that we have military options." "That kind of planning activity has been going on for a long time. I think it will go on for some time into the future," he told reporters.
While U.S. officials repeatedly deny plans to strike Iran, they have not closed the door completely on military action.
"Another war in the Middle East is the last thing we need and, in fact, I believe it would be disastrous on a number of levels," Defense Secretary Robert Gates said this week. "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 -- either directly or through proliferation." Uhuh, sure, right, I see, now we get it! However, what about the five-year-old Secret Talks with Iran? Why aren't they made public? Why isn't a joint commission of people like Jimmy Carter, Bill Clinton, The Delhi Lama and Bill Moyers sent over to make a peace? Because Bush wants no peace, he wants the Two cents a gallon ($00.02 cents a gallon) oil that his pals are selling for $4.20 gallon oil, at a 210% profit on us? At least Iran sells its oil to its own people for fifteen cents a gallon ($00.15 a gallon). (Venezuela sells it non-sweet oil to its people at $00.14 a gallon. Iraq was selling it gas at the pumps at $00.05 a gallon to its people. Looks to me as if all the Bushite enemies are people who sell gas cheap to their own citizens. The Bushites, all of them should be debtors prison at least until, God comes and makes alive again all the dead from this Iraq, Afghanistan, war zone. How dastardly is wasting our fine, young troops to create Socialized Oil and arms industries, at the cost of the Blood of our troops? I say do what FDR did in both World Wars; he recaptured all but 5%-10% profits from all contractors! Make war unprofitable for any and everyone!
