[cuban leaf]

Either there is some bluffing going on or we have intelligence that is real, and we want Iran to know it.

[Paulie]

This could be the false flag everyone’s been waiting for to get the war started.

[Alberta's Child]

I hope most Freepers are long past the point where we'd ever believe anything about "intelligence that is real."

A big red flag for me was Pompeo's trip to Iraq earlier this week. Pompeo is the U.S. Secretary of State, not the Secretary of Defense ... so there's a strong possibility that the trip was primarily a diplomatic one, not military.

My suspicion is that the U.S. relationship with the government of Iraq is hanging by a thread, and that our biggest concern with Iran isn't its threat to ocean commerce, but its infiltration of the Iraqi government.

[sockmonkey]

Waiting for a USS Liberty Redux.