Report Claims Large US Military Build-Up Prepping to Partially Blockade Iran

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Report Claims Large US Military Build-Up Prepping to Partially Blockade Iran
Submitted by Chip on Wed, 2008-08-13 21:38.


Three major US naval strike forces due this week in Persian Gulf
DEBKAfile Special Report | August 12, 2008


DEBKAfile’s military sources note that the arrival of the three new American flotillas will raise to five the number of US strike forces in Middle East waters – an unprecedented build-up since the crisis erupted over Iran’s nuclear program.

This vast naval and air strength consists of more than 40 carriers, warships and submarines, some of the last nuclear-armed, opposite the Islamic Republic, a concentration last seen just before the US-led invasion of Iraq in 2003.

Our military sources postulate five objects of this show of American muscle:

1. The US, aided also by France, Britain and Canada, is finalizing preparations for a partial naval blockade to deny Iran imports of benzene and other refined oil products. This action would indicate that the Bush administration had thrown in the towel on stiff United Nations sanctions and decided to take matters in its own hands.

2. Iran, which imports 40 percent of its refined fuel products from Gulf neighbors, will retaliate for the embargo by shutting the Strait of Hormuz oil route chokepoint, in which case the US naval and air force stand ready to reopen the Strait and fight back any Iranian attempt to break through the blockade.

3. Washington is deploying forces as back-up for a possible Israeli military attack on Iran’s nuclear installations.

4. A potential rush of events in which a US-led blockade, Israeli attack and Iranian reprisals pile up in a very short time and precipitate a major military crisis.

5. While a massive deployment of this nature calls for long planning, its occurrence at this time cannot be divorced from the flare-up of the Caucasian war between Russia and Georgia. While Russia has strengthened its stake in Caspian oil resources by its overwhelming military intervention against Georgia, the Americans are investing might in defending the primary Persian Gulf oil sources of the West and the Far East.

DEBKAfile’s military sources name the three US strike forces en route to the Gulf as the USS Theodore Roosevelt , the USS Ronald Reagan and the USS Iwo Jima . Already in place are the USS Abraham Lincoln in the Arabian Sea opposite Iranian shores and the USS Peleliu which is cruising in the Red Sea and Gulf of Aden.

I know they think they are setting the stage for Bomb-Bomb McCain to flaunt his
over-inflated military credentials... but they have totally mishandled every aspect
of what could laughingly be called a strategy. They look like fools. They look like bullies.
It's the same old crap we've endured for the last eight years.

It's time to shut them down. For good.

Otherwise, I agree.

but they are nuclear armed mean-spirited idiots.

All I got to say is that Bomb-Bomb ought never be within a mile of a launch button.
Good god. Can you imagine?

:scared::nuke::scared:

If the US and others participating in this go forwardwith this, China and Russia will get involved and it will get real nasty. The administration has n idea what they are doing.

Weeks before the Presidential Election Bush orders an attack taking out Iranian radar installations and Revolutionary Guards in support of Israel which attempts to take out nuclear research and production installations in Iran.

Iran responds with rocket attacks on US/foreign ships in the Straits of Hormuz and closes it to oil traffic. Attacks on Americans inside and outside the country follow.

Does Bush up the terror alert level to Red and refuse to step down as President in light of a 'national emergency'?

:scared:

I really hope. :scared:

never...

They are a psyops operation best case

Since the US puppet Georgian military got their asses handed to them and US intelligence was caught completely off guard by the Russian action they feel that only a strong showing in Iranian affairs will show those Ruskies we mean business.