Steve Watson
Infowars.net
Monday, January 15, 2007
The Defense Secretary Robert Gates today announced that the massive
increase in military power in the Persian Gulf is directly aimed
at Iran. Gates' comments follow a weekend of intense and heavy
loaded rhetoric on the part of many neocon figureheads, signaling
that the faintest spark could ignite a huge escalation of conflict
in the middle east.
Speaking in Brussels after meeting Nato officials, Mr Gates said:
"We are simply reaffirming that statement of the importance
of the Gulf region to the United States and our determination
to be an ongoing strong presence in that area for a long time
into the future."
Gates said that Patriot anti-missile missiles, aircraft carriers,
and cruise-missile-firing ships have been deployed in order to
show Iran that the US means business and will not be distracted
by the turmoil in Iraq. The build up has now been going on for
weeks and shows no sign of being purely a warning.
The Patriot missiles are intended to shoot down Iranian missiles.
The naval forces are there to pre-empt Iranian interference with
oil shipments, which would be immediate retaliations to any strike.
A former commander of the Russian Black Sea Fleet, Admiral
Eduard Baltin, has today revealed that he believes
a missile attack on the Iranians is imminent, while Republican
Congressman and 2008 Presidential candidate
Ron Paul fears a staged Gulf of Tonkin style incident
may be used to provoke air strikes on Iran.
Indeed, the Fars news agency reported yesterday that there have
already been rumours
of nonexistent clashes between Iranian and American
battleships in the Persian Gulf waters. A senior Iranian official
viewed the rumor as "a part of the enemies' psychological
war on Iran".
Last week US-led forces in northern Iraq arrested five Iranians
who the US military says were connected to an Iranian Revolutionary
Guard faction that funds
and arms insurgents in Iraq - a claim Iran has also
rejected.
This sudden assertion is comical.Why would Iranian Shi’ites
want to arm Iraqi Sunnis, who want to kill Iraqi Shi’ites
allied with Iran? A few appearances on the US propaganda outlets
by the neocons are supposed to convince us that this is now the
case however.
Dick
Cheney appeared on Fox news and, between denouncing
critics of the Iraq war, accused Iran of "fishing in troubled
waters inside Iraq". Meanwhile the national security adviser,
arch neocon Stephen
Hadley, said the US was "going to need to deal
with what Iran is doing inside Iraq", at the same time not
ruling out a skirmish inside Iran.
In reality what the neocons have dubbed as 'evidence' of Iranian
meddling, including the presence of Iranian officials, in Iraq,
is not troubling to Iraq's Shia political parties, many of whose
senior figures fled Saddam and lived for over twenty years in
exile in Iran. Such figures see a powerful Shia neighbour in Iran,
a friend and a religious and political exemplar in the midst of
crisis.
And while the Iraqi government is actually talking
to Iran, comfortably resolving security issues and
praising Iranian cooperation, the neocons in the White House are
running around foaming at the mouth, refusing
to engage in talks and deploying war ships.
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As the London
Guardian has reported, Donald Rumsfeld and the AEI
have developed a strategy for regime change in Iran that does
not involve a ground invasion. Weapons of mass destruction will
provide the rationale for military action, though it won't be
limited to attacks on a few weapons factories. It will include
limiting Iranian retaliatory capability, using bombers to destroy
up to 10,000 targets in the first day of any war, and special
forces flying in to destroy anything that's left.
The neocons would then be able to install another puppet regime
and further control the region, plundering it's wealth and resources,
while provoking the Muslim and Arab world to fight amongst themselves
and hopefully, in the words of Henry Kissinger, kill each other
off.
In other developments, Democratic presidential candidate Dennis
Kucinich stated:
"if Bush attacks Iran, all bets[regarding impeachment] are
off." Later he added, "We need to safeguard our Constitution."
If the President takes steps towards another war, Kucinich warned,
Congress could make "an active effort" toward impeachment.
"The President is clearly trying to provoke Iran,"
he said, adding that the Bush administration is "treading
on the thinnest ice it has ever been on."
Former Assistant Secretary of the Treasury, Paul
Craig Roberts has asserted that the only way to stop
the impending attack on Iran is to press for immediate impeachment:
"Americans don’t have much time to realize this and
to act before it is too late. Bush’s “surge”
speech last Wednesday night makes it completely clear that his
real purpose is to start wars with Iran and Syria before failure
in Iraq brings an end to the neoconservative/Israeli plan to establish
hegemony over the Middle East."
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