Both the USS Stennis and the USS Reagan appear to be headed off the coast of Iran to join the USS Eisenhower.
Officially the USS Reagan is headed for the western Pacific to replace the USS Kitty Hawk going in for replenishments in Japan.
However, there are both media reports and rumors that it is headed for off the coast of Iran.
Three carrier battlegroups can only mean an aircraft and missile attack on Iran.
The latest news from Hawaii is that the powerful battlefleet is headed for the Persian Gulf.
The USS Stennis has just arrived to join the USS Eisenhower. The USS Reagan is a short time away.
The official explanation is that the USS Reagan had a short notice or surge deployment to the Western Pacific.
A surge deployment would be unusual for a normal rotation to replace a carrier going in for replenishment. The official Navy explanation was that the Reagan was a replacement for the Stennis that was sent to join the Eisenhower. That now appears unlikely.
Starting in early January rumors have spread that the Reagan would be deployed to the Middle East to join in the air attack on Iran. Scott Ritter on January 24 also stated that the USS Reagan was probably headed for Iran and Congress only had a very short time to act.
When the USS Reagan left California, Reuters had a photograph that carried the correct caption - "headed to the Persian Gulf."
They have added two more powerful destroyers to the battlefleet from Hawaii. These are advanced Arleigh Burke destroyers with our best fleet air defenses and Tomahawk cruise missiles. The news media reported out of Hawaii that they were headed to the Persian Gulf.
The news that North Korea has just agreed to a nuclear arms agreement casts further doubt on the deployment of the Reagan carrier group near there.
If Bush gets three large carriers off the coast of Iran he will launch an aircraft and missile attack. This has been the nightmare scenario for the past year.
Call or write your congressman now to co-sponsor one of the three House resolutions calling on Bush to not attack without congressional approval. Here is a Congressional contact list.
The attack on Iran now appears to be only weeks away.