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Wednesday, August 13. 2008

Weds. morning links

Is this for real? Massive armada heads for Iran

Lieberman: Obama doesn't put country first. Right or wrong, that is a devastating charge.

Why trees cannot grow any higher

Huge drop in US oil demand. Related: The myths about offshore drilling

Some things about hot peppers you might not know

More on the MSM's double standard

Megafauna: looks like we killed them (h/t Jungle Trader)

Is the invasion of Georgia an East-West tipping point? Human Events. Related: There's always a "but" monkey

Postdiction of the day: Obama claims he's been warning about Georgia for months. Related: This doesn't sound like Christianity to me. Related: Obama campaign gets more from "big oil" than McCain, but lies about it. Truth is, the Dems get more $ from Wall St., Hollywood, Martha's Vineyard, Big Oil, Big Media, Big Tort Legal, Big Education, and Big Unions than the Repubs ever will.

Posted by The News Junkie in Hot News & Misc. Short Subjects at 06:02 | Comments (9) | Trackbacks (0)

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Maybe we are letting the Euro weenies deal with their backyard because it's party time in Iran. From what I've read from Ralph Peters and others, an air campaign against Iran would have to be sustained for some time and would probably require "eyes on the ground" to verify their equipment is destroyed. Hence the Marines and SEALS along for the ride.
#1 NJSoldier on 2008-08-13 09:19 (Reply)
Does this whole thing have a "guns of August" feel to it? The last part of that naval article mentions Iran's and Syria biological warfare possibilities. Rather scary.
#2 grant1863 on 2008-08-13 10:03 (Reply)
http://www.metimes.com/International/2008/08/11/special_report_kuwait_readying_for_war_in_gulf/7724/

Kuwait on red alert
#3 buddy larsen on 2008-08-13 10:07 (Reply)
Thanx. Wonder what it's all about.
#3.1 Bird Dog on 2008-08-13 10:12 (Reply)
Whattaya mean "We", Whiteman? I was outta town that day and I got witnesses.

How many 1000lb ground sloths can a handful of aborigines kill (or eat)? How 'bout climate change AND little, brown, exotic, and noble aborigines conspired to obliterate the poor megafaunas.
#4 Knucklehead on 2008-08-13 10:36 (Reply)
On the article about the "Massive US Naval Armada", I believe he is correct about large naval forces moving to the mid-east. However much of the article is opinion and involves statements like,

"This is a most serious game of military brinkmanship with major nuclear armed powers that have profound objections to the neo-con grand strategy and to western control of all of the Middle East's oil supply.".

Talk of neo-cons, a neo-con "grand strategy" and western control of the mid-east oil is a staple of the far left. He also has the US (neo-cons) responsible for the war in Georgia.
#5 geoffb on 2008-08-13 11:10 (Reply)
Yes, kinda strange.
#5.1 BD on 2008-08-13 18:15 (Reply)
By the time I got to the part about a massive Iranian bio-engineered virus attack (not to mention the obligatory allegation that neo-cons in league with Israelis ginned up the Georgia crisis in order to divert attention from the Iranian blockade), I concluded that this "Global Research" website was a looney-tunes outlet, or a joke.
#6 texan99 on 2008-08-13 12:57 (Reply)
That's Global Research CANADA to you, all you blatant neocon yankee imperialist running dogs.
The Kuwait buttpucker seems to be genuine, and who can blame them? They've got to still have a tender poopchute from getting Saddamized.
Iranian blockade, not so much. There's a regular rotation of naval forces, and there ARE still aircraft carriers sitting around in harbor on both east and west coasts. If we ever decide to corncob Iran, there probably won't be a lot of warships sitting idle. (Unless those pesky neocons just want you to think there are warships sitting idle, capitalist paper tigers. That would lull the moolah-moolah mullahs into a false sense of security so they could go on hanging teen queens and stoning rape victims to death like any sensible medieval society.)
#7 Carl H. on 2008-08-13 16:19 (Reply)

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