I think they might be starting Phase One vs. Iran

This scares hell out of me, so I'm not going overboard on the verbiage.

Glenn Greenwald has a post up today about Cliff May at the National Review lecturing an imam about freedom of speech. He makes a few good points about free speech, but there's something there I think he missed in the article that points towards some kind of attack on Iran.

We've known that they've been piling carrier groups into the Red Sea for a while now to provoke something. And we know about the arrests of the Iranian diplomats. But it's clear and has been for a long time that the Iranians aren't going to start shooting until they're good and ready. The American people aren't going to war over nuclear plants, either.

Think they'll do so over accusations of attacks on US troops? Especially when the Cliff Mays of the RWNM start using this language?

If this is way the Militant Islamist regime throws its weight around now, imagine what the mullahs will do should they defeat the US in Iraq and acquire nuclear weapons.

I don't have to place any emphasis in the quote, do I?

They are now trying to frame the Iraq mess into an overt conflict with Iran. What the hell can we do to stop this?

•  Party Ender

  I don't see the American people buying into another war.  Iran will be the GOP going out with a bang - though they'll do a lot of damage to America in the process.  

  by Jack the R on Thu Dec 28, 2006 at 09:55:39 AM PDT

•  Carriers in the Red Sea?

  I think you mean the Persian Gulf. I don't think a carrier can squeeze through the Suez Canal. Besides, it's on the wrong side of Saudi Arabia.

  by skrymir on Thu Dec 28, 2006 at 10:22:30 AM PDT

  •  I've never heard of DEBKAfile,

    so I'm not sure of the source being referenced, but if you check the author's first link after the fold, that's exactly what's going on.

    by Phil N DeBlanc on Thu Dec 28, 2006 at 11:41:19 AM PDT

  •  As the linked article says

    The Enterprise got through Suez ok, so I assume all the others can too. And it's well within range at that point for airstrikes against Iran.

    by Anderson Republican on Thu Dec 28, 2006 at 11:42:32 AM PDT