Reports emerged this weekend from Scotland’s Sunday Herald that the US government has contracted with a Florida company to ship a massive amount of weaponry, including hundreds of bunker buster bombs, to Diego Garcia.
Diego Garcia, a small island in the Indian Ocean, was depopulated by Britain in the 1960’s and 1970’s, and transferred to the United States as a military base. The island’s proximity to Iran suggests it may be used as a staging ground for US air strikes against the nation.
The proximity is not lost on Iran’s state media, which is reporting that the bunker-busters are a clear move to threaten Iran’s nuclear facilities. The US has repeatedly threatened to attack Iran over its civilian nuclear program.
The Sunday Herald report also cites numerous experts as saying that the lack of publicity for the move, just one of several examples of the Obama Administration adding major amounts of weaponry to the area around Iran, suggests they believe a confrontation is more likely. The Pentagon has thus far refused to comment.
I'm probably gonna say what everybody has figured out by now, but with the recent insult regarding the Israeli settlements, the US will make a little deal and bomb Iran, in return for a settlement "freeze". That's how it will play out in the current Administration's mind. The reality will be we'll bomb Iran and Israel will continue stealing land wholesale from Palestinians. And everything will get worse. It's proverbial train-wreck and all someone like me can do is bear witness to it.
The first bomb drop on Iran will unleash a blowback that's been well described by Raimondo, AWdotCom and many others.
That blow back includes the immediate sinking of ONE big ship in the Straits of Hormuz, stalling international oil shipments and raising the price of oil to well above 300-500 dollars per barrel.
The next worst thing will be that Iran and the Middle East will let loose a jihad on Iran for Shia interests that will make Saddam look tolerant.
US Embassies around the world will be sitting ducks for sleeper cells.
US interests in general will be attacked world wide be they military, industrial/oil/resource based, or even missionary based.
And some sort of US based sleeper cells will wreak havoc on the US mainland.
Oh, I'm sorry, China and Russia will take great umbrage at this assault on THEIR investments in Iran, and that will put us at risk of DEFCON3 or more, if not the loosing of a few nukes.
For ONE attack on Iran, for political will and re-election desire, the USA will find itself the scourage of the world, the enemy of the world, and will be attacked on all fronts world wide and here at home, for a stupid as dumbshit attack as was ever ordered since Custer sent the 7th to Crazy Horse's Trap.
I don't think for ONE minute out Pentagon is willing to risk all out nuke war, for a bombing mission that might just BE the trigger, to all out nuke war . . .
Course, I been wrong before . . . but if I'm wrong on this one, I get to die knowing I'm smarter than the leaders and rulers of our nation and this planet.
And ya know, I'm just not that fucking smart.
Cross yer fingers people, it's getting wierd again, like Minot AFB was wierd.
China and Russia have already decided to throw Iran under the bus. Iran is a sitting duck and an irresistible one to US and Israeli military eyes.
But, once the war starts, things may not unfold quite as the military planners and their corporate bosses imagine. So who knows where this will all end up.
The important thing is that we stop refusing to believe that the war is going to happen. Yes, it is. The moves being made by the US and Israel are coming faster and faster and are unmistakeable in intent.
Please,please,please,No more war or killing.No more.First Iraq then Afghanistan and now this.It is Israel's war and let them deal with it.not us.Israel does not care about anyone but themselves,why should we care about them.how long or how many times do we have to cover their ass and fight their fight.both of those guys are losers and let them fuck each other up.not our fight.
Diego Garcia was discovered by Portuguese explorers in the early 1500s. It is the largest of fifty-two islands which form the Chagos Archipelago, located in the heart of the Indian Ocean. The island's name is believed to have come from either the ship's captain or the navigator on that early voyage of discovery.
In the 1960's, America's naval policy in the Indian Ocean had many ingredients. The foremost was to deter Russia from interrupting the flow of oil from the Persian Gulf countries to America and Europe. Politically, this entailed American support of Iran to counter Russian influence in Iraq. It entailed maintaining a naval presence in the Persian Gulf, and wherever possible, in the countries on the rim of the Indian Ocean, not only to secure the sea lines of communication which criss-crossed the Indian Ocean but also to inject military force from seaward when required. By 1968, the American Navy had effected the necessary adjustments in its global naval deployments.
Privatizing the military: does it strike anyone else as odd that some private company has been hired to move hundreds of heavy bunker-buster bombs? Shouldn't moving strategic ordnance be a job the military handles itself? Moving bombs around the world now qualifies as a "profit center"?
Did anyone ever hear the thing about the Chaplain's daughter being the most popular person on the island about twenty something years ago…..
fcuk antiwar
Don´t forget that the original population was forced to leave their beloved island because the bloody Americans wanted their home, all of it, as a base. Let´s hope the US goes bankrupt, and it will if Obama attacks Iran-so they can´t afford to terrorize the world any more.
Ah shit early on I meant that Iran and the Middle East will let loose a jihad on USA . . . my bad.
And jihad on IRAQ, for cryin out loud that's what I meant . . . . argghhhhh.
Iran will be totally justified in ANY action to retaliate to an American/Isreali attack on their Country.
This is just plain stupid.
Israel has succeeded in making the US the laughing stock of the century.No normal state would lend any respect to its politicians as lonf as they are sold and bought by the jewish lobby.Now, should the US pursue with its threats against Iran,Israel would be the first casualty to receive the wrath of the Arabs and Muslims.This war,if materialized, may witness the end of this nightmare that agonized the world for the last sixty years.
The only thing that will stop the U.S. and Israel is a crushing military defeat and economic collapse. In the short term this will cause great hardship, but in the end it will be the best thing that can happen to The United States. It will have the effect of breaking this un- holy alliance with Israel, and force the United States to surrender empire, bring the troops home, and concentrate on what is best for America. Best of all the wacko neo-cons ,who brazenly stated that it is they who will define reality, and while the rest of us are adjusting to that reality, they will continue to make new realities to which we must adjust, will be the self proclaimed owners of the new reality of a diminished United States.
Diego Garcia is a British territory mostly populated by the US military, the British colony that's been colonised by the Americans. Normally the island is home to about 1,700 military personnel and 1,500 civilian contractors. But only about 50 troops are British. The island is used jointly by the Navy and the Air Force. Though the Navy contingent is larger, the Air Force does the flying.
Diego Garcia is a narrow tropical jungle reef in the Indian Ocean, about 1,000 miles south of the southern India coast. Despite the tropical feel to the reef, this is no Margaritaville. It's more of a stationary aircraft carrier. Diego Garcia is exclusively a military reservation located on a small host country atoll in the Chagos Archipelago.
A tropical footprint-shaped island just 7 degrees south of the equator, Diego Garcia is heavily vegetated. The island covers 6,720 acres in area with a maximum height of 22 feet and an average elevation of four feet above sea level. The shoreline is about 40 miles long and the island encloses a lagoon 6.5 miles wide and 13 miles long.
US and English have something in common…
Retards thats what the Americans are. Obama had the chance to change and he blew it and continues to blow what political clout he had after the election. Maybe they should just nuke themselves and do the world a favour.
Are you are referring to Israel?
Is the US going to bomb Iran's new reactor at Bushir? If so, what are they going to do about the inevitable radioactive dust that would drift across the Straits of Hormuz – right onto US Forces in Iraq.
What about all the radioactive chemicals that will get into the water supply? We've all seen the grotesque pictures of little Iraqi babies with abnormalities. What do you think will happen to the people living THERE!
Do you think they ever cared?!
They're conventional iron bombs with smart bomb kits added, and they are Naval weapons. Something about the story doesn't ring true.
The madness continues! For war profiteers, Likudniks, and Christians for a United Israel rejoice.
It is at a moment in history of such import that normal citizens of the U.S. feel helpless if not paralized. I, like many citizens continually bombard my congrrssional representatives with pleas to stop this proverbial 'trainwreck' from starting. But they don't want to hear it. I have learned that a whopping 67% of Congressional Members are invested in defense-related industries. Could this be the motive-force behind the rush to attack Iran? Or perhaps it is a combination of investment and prodding from the all-powerful Israel lobby; AIPAC behind the madness.
This will be the dumest thing coming from Obama. Why do foolish things for The Zionist? It was Iraq, then Afghanistan to Iran after it will be Syria to Saudi Arabia and Egypt. When will it stop? Now we know the real terrorists.
Answer me this my Anti-war Brothers and sisters. Are the bombs already at diego garcia or are they on their way? There's a big difference.
I think they are on their way and will most likely arrive there by the end of the month.
I tried to play devils advocate but it doesn't work. There just can't be any other reason to have those bombs there unless you are gonna use them!
Using history as a rubric, remember when sy hersh reported that Bush allocated 800 million dollars for covert operations in Iran to start a color revolution? Well, did that money gain interest in a bank account? No. It was used to the maximum potential. It was a pitiful failure. So using history as a rubric, are these bombs just gonna gather dust in a hangar? History tells us….. No!
Or some stupid meglomaniac like Mullen may order their use bypassing Obama who is weak as ….
Once the bombs start falling on Iran, there is one thing we can be sure of: The Zionist dictatorship in Washington masquerading as "our government" will be imposing martial law.
Let's face it, with our economy already crumbling; with "9/11 Truth" gaining steam; with people starting to wake up to the fact that our government has been overthrown…our Masters need martial law, and they need it soon.
Once the open hostilities start, Iran will no doubt try to fight back, and I'd bet very surprised if Zionist agents provocateurs will not be standing by to make sure "something happens" on U.S. soil that can be attributed to "Iranian agents" or "domestic terrorists" sympathetic to Iran.
The US keeps trying to fight conventional wars when guerrillas own warfare and have owned warfare for the last 75 years or so. Superpowers have been brought to their knees by guerrillas and the actual winning of wars, that is land and political power trading hands almost always goes to the side of the guerrillas. The US military cannot fight it's way out of a guerrilla paper bag and has not won a guerrilla war in 108 years (the Philippine Insurrection of 1902). Many do not realize killing is not the same thing as winning. Militaries always kill their guerrilla foes in greater numbers sometimes as much as 100 to 1 sometimes in numbers approaching genocide. But the guerrillas usually win. American leaders expect foreign leaders to yield to their demands but when they do they loose face with their people. Western countries have a long history of hypocrisy in the use of force. For example, England during it's colonizing period considered force used against the natives benevolence ,counterforce used by the natives England considered terrorism. Historically much of what politicians, generals, and the media consider terrorism is actually counter terrorism, a reaction to military terrorism.
Are the right wing evangelical nut bars trying to harken the Rapture or Apocalypse or whatever they want to call it? If there is a God he certainly doesn't need our help to destroy the planet, if he exists he could do it in a nanosecond with a thought. Whats to gain here? Power? Health is moot if we're all dying of radiation poisoning.
If the USA attacks Iran, Americans will deserve whatever retaliation they get.
Such madness.
Let's hope the US uses these weapons to bomb israhell instead, and send a clear message to the apartheid regime of israhell.
Once the world is a smoldering cinder then the fools will be happy. This jackboot mentality needs to stop and quickly. I hope the Americans aren't as stupid as they appear to the rest of us. Didn't we fight 2 world wars to stop this kind of madness? The US has become what it fought against in 2 wars and a cold war….fools.