In the secrecy obsessed Bush administration, nothing gets revealed unless it helps bush or can't be stopped. This could have been stopped, ergo, it helps Busch, at least it was intended to. Once again the boy wonder has orchestrated a flop.
Known Facts
- Un-named Pentagon and Naval officials made a decision to combine this audio with this video.
- At the time they combined the video, said officials were still trying to determine if the transmission came from the speedboats or elsewhere.
- The Fars news agency had said that the confrontation had been fabricated to present Iran as a threat to its neighbors before Mr. Bush’s trip so he could justify United States forces in the gulf.
- No explanations have been offered as to why the decision was made to combine audio of questionable provenance so as to create the impression of a dangerous situation.
- No mention is made by Naval or Pentagon officials of the fact that the US war ships were trolling very close to Iranian territory and were, in fact, in waters claimed by the Iranians as territorial.
- The press has breathlessly repeated assertions from un-named officials that the Naval commanders were on the verge of firing upon the speed boats. Not so. In its story covering the Vice Admiral Cosgriff briefing, Reuters cited "other Pentagon officials, speaking on condition of anonymity" as saying that "a U.S. captain was in the process of ordering sailors to open fire when the Iranian boats moved away" -- a story that Cosgriff had specifically denied.
If i were inclined to paranoia and, or partial to conspiracy theories, I would be openly wondering whether this whole Iranian "provocation" was a bungled psy-ops operation conducted to mis-inform and subliminally manage the masses with fear.
Now it appears that no Naval Commander was on the verge of firing upon those teeny tiny ships with their great big guns, but, SOMONE made the decision to release this video with a deliberate intent to deceive. No way this was unexpected.
In my wildest fantasies, this convoy of destroyers is patrolling a contested area of water just off the coast of Iran. Local commanders and our political leaders know that Iran claims territorial rights via treaties with Iraq that America, in her infinite wisdom, refuses to recognize. They are trolling for a confrontation. Once the boats begin circling, and asking for Identification, operation Voice Over for Justice goes into effect and you get some provacative statements.
In the secrecy obsessed Bush administration, nothing gets revealed unless it helps bush or can't be stopped. This could have been stopped, ergo, it helps Busch, at least it was intended to. Once again the boy wonder has orchestrated a flop.
The fact that the Iranian Opposition Party is blaming Ahamdinejad for grandstanding, I conjecture, is merely damage control at the behest of the Americans to minimize blowblack.