When confronted with serial liars like the Bush administration
you have to examine every one of their acts to see if there is
an ulterior motive that is a more likely explanation of their
behaviors than the reason they have stated publicly.
Bush’s call for another 30,000 troops for a “surge” to pacify
Baghdad warrants such an examination.
Dennis Rahkonen’s post yesterday on Smirking Chimp spells out
one such scenario for the extra troops; the annihilation of
the militant Shiite cleric Moqtada al Sdar’s Mahdi militia.
www.smirkingchimp.com/thread/4059
Another possibility is that the Neocons in the Bush
administration are going to go forward with their plans to
bomb Iran’s infrastructure to eliminate Iran as the dominate
power in the Middle East and the extra troops will be required
to quell the Shiite response in Baghdad to the American
bombing of Iran.
Several clues point toward this scenario, Saturday Iraq’s
Prime Minister Nuri Al-Maliki called for former Baathist high
ranking military officers to rejoin the military. If the
United States does attack Iran shifting the puppet government
in Iraq to a Sunni dominated regime would probably be
required. Returning the Sunni to power in Iraq would also be
viewed favorably by the longtime friends of the Bush family,
the Saudi Royals.
www.arabnews.com/?page=7§ion=0&article=90125&d=17&m=12&y=2006
On Sunday’s “Meet the Press” guest Newt Gingrich went out of
this way to state that America was at war with Iran. In
response to Tim Russert’s first question Gingrich replied
“...and so I think the administration shouldn’t just focus
narrowly on Iraq, they should look, first of all, at the
larger war, which does include Iran, it does include North
Korea, it does include al-Qaeda.” Iran has been on the Neocon
“to do list” ever since the run-up to the invasion of Iraq
when a regular Neocon refrain was that “Anybody can go to
Baghdad, real men go the Tehran.”
Here’s the first three paragraph to an article on MSNBC today
about a major American navel build-up in the Persian Gulf;
[blockquote]WASHINGTON - The U.S. Central Command is
aggressively planning a naval buildup in the Persian Gulf,
including the addition of a second aircraft carrier, in
response to a series of aggressive actions by Iran, U.S.
military officials told NBC News on Tuesday.
The officials pointed to Iran's interference in Iraq —
including its support for Shiite militants and shipments of
improvised explosive devices into the country — recent
military naval exercises in the Gulf, and its pursuit of
nuclear weapons.
The attempt at "gunboat diplomacy" is in its final
planning stages. Although it has not been approved yet, it
appears likely the increase in U.S. warships into the Gulf
could come as early as January, the officials
said.[/blockquote]
www.msnbc.msn.com/id/16281057article
While I’m sure the Bush administration would prefer gunboat
diplomacy to real diplomacy with Iran, their bluff and bluster
policy with Iran so far has been spectacularly unsuccessful.
That this proposed naval buildup off the shores of Iran
coincides with a proposed troop buildup in Baghdad seems more
than coincidental.
The long term outcome of America’s invasion of Iraq has been
to greatly strengthen Iran’s standing as the dominate regional
power in the Middle East. As the political pressure in the
United States mounts to withdraw the troops from the mess that
now exists in Iraq The Bush administration is faced with the
fact that if America’s troops are removed from Iraq absolutely
nothing would stand in the way of Iran to assume control on
most of the Middle East, and there is no way in hell the
Neocons are going to allow that to happen.
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