Thanks for the article. I thought that was weird when I read it the other day. Makes sense - if - that's what they have up their sleeves. Our resolve is something else I wonder about...
The US navy will need to keep the oil flowing during the upcoming Iran-Saudi war.
But it will be a losing battle to keep oil below $200 a barrel.
Future fortunes are awaiting those who buy oil shares at these fire sale prices.
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D'oh! As obvious as the nose on your face if you only bother to look down. Of course!
This one's for you, baby! Happy New Year!
I thought it was part of "W"s scheme to weaken the Pacific Command as a favor to communist china.
There was just an article posted yesterday that stated Britain's Parliament had agreed to mothball half their fleet.....
admiral...let's see. He's in charge of carrier groups and a couple of MEU's.... yep. Iran...
Makes sense to me. Time to dismantle Iran's military in its entirety. Reduce it to rubble. Long overdue. They invaded the United States in 1979 under Jimmah Carter and we did nothing in response. And that's ultimately what caused 9/11 because of our perceived weakness.
This guy isn't just an admiral, he was head of the Pacific Command. This was my first reaction, too, on hearing the news. It doesn't make much sense to put an admiral into Iraq unless you anticipate some sort of multi-service effort coming down the pike. Then it makes perfect sense, because he would be the logical person to coordinate carrier groups, air force bombers from Diego Garcia, possible amphibious forces, etc., etc.
There's no intention to do what's needed: an invasion, occupation and denazification of Iran. The intent is to spend a few more $100 billion dollars to post more guards around the oil routes in order to try to protect the oil for our importers. There are also obviously efforts underway to make nice with the mullahs in exchange for their taking their lapdog (Ahmanutjob) out of office and replace him with more of a smoothie terrorist.
Why get in a fight and pay more for import freight fuel and domestic labor today, when we can let the Islamist regimes build-up their military/nuclear forces more for an attack against us tomorrow? It's better to spend more $100s of millions of tax dollars to subsidize putting the War off until tomorrow and letting our shrinking population of kids take care of it (or be conquered).
A more mundane answer- the command of CENTCOM is rotated among services. We had an Army General, then a Marine (or was it the other way..?
Now it is the Navy's turn at Command.
Simply check the history of command, by service, at CENTCOM.
Move along folks- nothing more to see here.
Something related to our discussion yesterday.
Two if by sea....ping
What type of dummy puts the lead commander in charge of a most important resources a operation that will utilize rather than someone who doesn't have the expertise to run the operation
What a dummy !!!
The media needs a chair at the joint chief table to make sure our military operations are being run correctly
The US Navy has one/two/? carrier groups in the Persian Gulf, and Iran is fully aware of the power of those carrier groups.
Either we take Iran down hard, or I'm afraid many more innocent Westerners will die. Us or Them, self-defense.
Latest from Drudge re probable/possible attack by Israel on Iran:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1763497/posts
Paper (Sunday Times): Israel Plans Nuclear Strike on Iran
drudge ^
Posted on 01/06/2007 2:28:54 PM PST by maquiladora
Israel has drawn up secret plans to destroy Iran's uranium enrichment facilities with tactical nuclear weapons, the SUNDAY TIMES of London is planning to report, British media sources tell DRUDGE... MORE...
PAPER: ISRAEL PLANS NUCLEAR STRIKE ON IRAN