US Prepping Military Options Against Iran
Mike Sheehan
Published: Friday April 25, 2008
Adm. Michael Mullen, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said that the Pentagon is planning “potential” military actions against Iran, reports The Washington Post.
Mullen criticized Iran’s “‘increasingly lethal and malign influence’ in Iraq,” writes Ann Scott Tyson for the Post.
Addressing concerns about the US military’s capability of dealing with yet another conflict at a time when forces are purportedly stretched thin, Mullen said war with Iran “would be ‘extremely stressing’ but not impossible for U.S. forces, pointing specifically to reserve capabilities in the Navy and Air Force,” Tyson notes.
“It would be a mistake to think that we are out of combat capability,” she quotes the U.S.’s top military leader at a Pentagon news conference.
Mullen’s assertion comes a day after American forces reportedly fired warning shots at Iranian speedboats in the Persian Gulf, a confrontation that Iran denies took place.
A prior incident involving U.S. forces in the Strait of Hormuz and Iranian speedboats in January of this year–which Republican White House candidates used (with the notable exception of Ron Paul) as a saber-rattling opportunity during a nationally-televised debate–was later discredited as a virtual fabrication.
Filed under: Foreign Policy and World Affairs, General, War on Terror | Tagged: Iran, Iraq, middle east, Terror, war
With all the of the preparations The US, Iran, Israel, Syria, Lebanon and yes even RUSSIA have been making the last few weeks, id say it is pretty apparant we are close to a huge scaled modern day war (probably nuclear) and people still will not open up their eyes to what is REALLY going on.
People tend to close their eyes when they are frightened.