From The Baltimore Chronicle, 10/6/06:
http://baltimorechronicle.com/2006/101006LINDORFF.shtml

Eisenhower Carrier Group Sails for Iran Theater

by DAVE LINDORFF

This build-up of naval power around the coast of Iran, according to
some military sources, is in preparation for an air attack on Iran
that would target not just Iran's nuclear enrichment facilities, but
its entire military command and control system.

The nuclear-powered aircraft carrier Eisenhower and its accompanying
strike force of cruiser, destroyer and attack submarine slipped their
moorings and headed off for the Persian Gulf region on Oct. 2, as I
had predicted in a piece in The Nation magazine a few weeks back.

The Eisenhower strike force, according to my sources, is scheduled to
arrive in the vicinity of Iran around October 21, at the same time as
a second flotilla of minesweepers and other ships.

This build-up of naval power around the coast of Iran, according to
some military sources, is in preparation for an air attack on Iran
that would target not just Iran's nuclear enrichment facilities, but
its entire military command and control system.

While such an attack could be expected to unleash a wave of military
violence all over Iraq, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait and elsewhere against
American forces and interests and against oil wells, pipelines and
loading vacilities, as well as a mining of the Persian Gulf and the
Strait of Hormuz, with a resulting skyrocketing of global oil prices,
the real goal of this new war by the U.S. would be ensuring Republican
control of the House and Senate.

It seems increasingly clear that the Republican Party is going to lose
its grip on the House of Representatives, and that it may even lose
control of the Senate, barring some dramatic October Surprise by the
president.

So far, the surprises have been working against Republicans, with the
Foley sex scandal, the evidence that Abramoff's bribery reached right
into the inner sanctum of the White House, and the deteriorating U.S.
position in Iraq.

With the number of House seats reportedly "in play" now rising from 15
to 30 and now 50, President Bush is looking at the possibility of a
blow out Nov. 7 that could see him facing a Democratic Congress bent
on revenge for five six years of systematic abuse.

Bush has committed a long string of impeachable crimes against the
Constitution, the Republic and the American people--everything from
lying to the Congress and the 9-11 Commission, obstructing an
investigation into the outing of CIA agent Valerie Plame, abuse of
power, violation of federal laws like the Foreign Surveillance
Intelligence Act, dereliction of duty and criminal negligence, and war
crimes.

He can expect a Democratic Congress to call him to account for at
least some of these crimes, whatever House minority leader Nancy
Pelosi (D-CA) may say today.

The worse things look for Republican chances in November, the greater
the likelihood that a desperate President Bush will order a disastrous
attack on Iran.

This means that the worse things look for Republican chances in
November, the greater the likelihood that a desperate President Bush
will order a disastrous attack on Iran--one that would have the
country enter into a third, even worse, war even as it is currently
busy losing two others.

But Bush and his gang of cronies don't care about initiating a
disaster.

They're focussed on the disaster that will hit them if they don't turn
around the November election.

Sacrificing the country or its young men and women in uniform, or the
lives of innocent Iranians, is not a concern, any more than it was
when Bush ordered the invasion of Iraq.

Clearly such a war would be an act of madness, and yet we know that
the plans, already drawn up, are being updated and fine-tuned now by
generals and admirals whose twisted sense of patriotism has them
giving primary loyalty to a demented commander in chief instead of to
the Constitutional and the people of the United States, to both of
which they swore an oath to protect.

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Life could kinda rough. Keep your fingers crossed.

Harry