WORLD WAR NO: Apocalypse Impending?
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| 'The Middle East Theatre of War' (GlobalResearch.ca) |
When a former Middle East bureau chief of
The New York Times is writing that “War with Iran — a war that would unleash
an apocalyptic scenario in the Middle East — is probable by the end of the Bush administration,” we should awaken to the possibility. When he continues, “It could begin in as little as three weeks,” concerned citizens everywhere should resolve to work together to prevent it.
Writing on
Alternet on Tuesday, Chris Hedges warned of an American naval armada barreling towards the Strait of Hormuz: the 50 kilometer-wide, 21 kilometer-narrow waterway adjoining the Persian Gulf to the Gulf of Oman and the Arabian Sea…
“The aircraft carrier
Eisenhower, accompanied by the guided-missile cruiser
USS Anzio, guided-missile destroyer
USS Ramage, guided-missile destroyer
USS Mason and the fast-attack submarine
USS Newport News, is, as I write, making its way to the Straits of Hormuz off Iran. The ships will be in place to strike Iran by the end of the month
. It may be a bluff. It may be a feint. It may be a simple show of American power. But I doubt it.“
Three weeks ago, a
Time magazine cover-story broke the news of a “‘Prepare to Deploy’ order sent through [U.S.] naval communications channels to a submarine, an Aegis-class cruiser, two minesweepers and two mine hunters” alongside “a second request, from the Chief of Naval Operations (
CNO)” asking “for fresh eyes on long-standing U.S. plans to blockade two Iranian oil ports on the Persian Gulf.” A
follow-up post in
The Nation reported the public affairs office of the Navy Department at the Pentagon confirming that “the Eisenhower Strike Group, bristling with Tomahawk cruise missiles… is scheduled to arrive off the coast of Iran on or around
October 21“
— next Saturday — just over two weeks before mid-term elections in the US.
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