[lit-ideas] Re: October Surprise?
- From: JimKandJulieB@xxxxxxx
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- Date: Thu, 5 Oct 2006 05:47:22 EDT
Thank you! (Although in light of your previous post "cheers" seems a bit
....well........optimistic <g>).
Julie Krueger
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Julie,
The Nation is a seriously left of center but quite respectable
magazine. The story is from the on-line edition. Here is the URL.
http://www.thenation.com/doc/20061009/lindorff
Cheers,
John
On 10/5/06, JimKandJulieB@xxxxxxx <JimKandJulieB@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>
> Thank you. That clarifies things a lot. And.....oh my God. Why isn't
this
> on CNN or BBC or something? Where did you find it? Is "the Nation" a
paper
> magazine or an on-line site? Are they dependable and not tabloidish? If
> the US strikes Iran all Hell will break loose.
>
> Julie Krueger
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> Date:10/5/2006 3:41:32 A.M. Central Standard Time
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> Hi, Julie.
>
> Here is a description from a story in the Norfolk Virginian-Pilot.
>
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>
> NORFOLK - After a six-year hiatus from patrolling the seas, Tuesday
> marked a return to routine for the aircraft carrier Eisenhower.
>
> For the families who waved goodbye to the 6,500 sailors of the
> Eisenhower strike group, it meant the opposite: routines upended,
> holiday traditions altered, relationships tested.
>
> Accompanied by guided-missile destroyers Mason and Ramage and
> guided-missile cruiser Anzio, the Eisenhower began what is expected to
> be a seven-month tour in support of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
> The group will relieve the carrier Enterprise and three other
> Norfolk-based ships due back next month.
> ----------------------------
>
> This is the official story. The lead to the story in The Nation reads
> as follows.
>
> ----------------------------
>
> As reports circulate of a sharp debate within the White House over
> possible US military action against Iran and its nuclear enrichment
> facilities, The Nation has learned that the Bush Administration and
> the Pentagon have moved up the deployment of a major "strike group" of
> ships, including the nuclear aircraft carrier Eisenhower as well as a
> cruiser, destroyer, frigate, submarine escort and supply ship, to head
> for the Persian Gulf, just off Iran's western coast. This information
> follows a report in the current issue of Time magazine, both online
> and in print, that a group of ships capable of mining harbors has
> received orders to be ready to sail for the Persian Gulf by October 1.
>
> As Time writes in its cover story, "What Would War Look Like?,"
> evidence of the forward deployment of minesweepers and word that the
> chief of naval operations had asked for a reworking of old plans for
> mining Iranian harbors "suggest that a much discussed--but until now
> largely theoretical--prospect has become real: that the U.S. may be
> preparing for war with Iran."
>
> According to Lieut. Mike Kafka, a spokesman at the headquarters of the
> Second Fleet, based in Norfolk, Virginia, the Eisenhower Strike Group,
> bristling with Tomahawk cruise missiles, has received orders to depart
> the United States in a little over a week. Other official sources in
> the public affairs office of the Navy Department at the Pentagon
> confirm that this powerful armada is scheduled to arrive off the coast
> of Iran on or around October 21.
>
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>
> John
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