[Konovalov]

Originally Posted by baggygreen

SO people, what do we all think about the newest nes headlines at subsim.com?

Media speculation?

Leaked information?

Deliberate information?

my bet is for #3, that they're laying the building blocks for an attack, and by christ i hope so. Not because im a warmonger, but because i believe it honestly needs doing

Do you mean a US strike by the United States upon Iran in April as mentioned in that news article?

If so then I doubt it. It may have been put out there by the US as a signal just as the Patriot missile battery deployments were IMO.

Yesterday Stephen Hadley was interviewed by Tim Russert on NBC Meet the Press. Russert asked Hadley "He raised eyebrows when he talked about Iran and Syria in his speech on Wednesday night, sending carrier groups, Patriot missiles, positioning supplies, weapons, ships into the area near Iran. Are we preparing for a potential military conflict with Iran?"

Hadley replied "No. The president has said very clearly that the issues we do—we have with Iran should be solved diplomatically in terms of the nuclear issue. He did say that Iranians are active in Iraq, supporting people who are putting our American troops and Iraqis at risk. He said very clearly we are going to deal with that, we’re going to disrupt those operations.

But that’s why I tried to say earlier, Tim, there’s a broad struggle going on in the Middle East between the forces of freedom and democracy, the forces of terror and tyranny, and Iran is behind a lot of that. They’re behind Hezbollah. They’re about—behind Hamas. And the region is looking and watching and asking the question whether the United States is going to stay engaged in that region and be an ally of those countries who want to resist an effort by Iran to basically establish hegemony over in that region, and that’s why the president is taking those steps."

Full story here: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3032608/