That would make a great movie title. It looks like the game is on.
The nuclear-powered aircraft carrier Eisenhower and its accompanying strike force of cruiser, destroyer and attack submarine slipped their moorings and headed off for the Persian Gulf region on Oct. 2, . . .
Dave Lindorff: Iran Attack Looks More Likely as Eisenhower Carrier Group Sails for Iran Theater
I predict the following: there will be an attack, most likely staged (Tonkin-like), on an American vessel in the Persian Gulf, leading to a U.S. attack on Iranian “nuclear weapons installations”. The new October surpirse?
The GOP will turn this into a “see, we are tough on terrorists. Democrats are spineless” debate.
And the Democrats specifically their candidates, who are in actuality, spineless, will start squawking “but I voted yes for the Iraq war before I didn’t vote no for the Iran war. . . I mean, I did vote for….Ahminaminajabad is an evil-doer! I’ve said that all along.”
People will forget about the disasters happening in Afghanistan and Iraq. We will have a new enemy. Grab your popcorn and enjoy the show.
I haven’t even begun to touch the subject of the latest GOP propaganda campaign where they have been pigeon holding the Dems as a party that wants to “Cut n Run” – which they imply means get out of Iraq without “finishing the job”. I don’t think one GOP representative can inform the general public what the “job” is that we still need to do, since it’s been almost a year now since Bush claimed the “Mission Accomplished”.