<div>Chas et. al.</div>
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<div><a href="http://www.navytimes.com/story.php?f=1-292925-2149840.php">http://www.navytimes.com/story.php?f=1-292925-2149840.php</a></div>
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<div>The Navy Times actually answered The Nation article I referenced earlier in my post on "October Surprise?"</div>
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<div>Links to The Nation article the Navy Times quotes:</div>
<div><br><a href="http://www.thenation.com/doc/20061009/lindorff"><font color="#800080">http://www.thenation.com/doc/20061009/lindorff</font></a><br><br><a href="http://www.thenation.com/docprint.mhtml?i=20061009&s=lindorff">
<font color="#800080">http://www.thenation.com/docprint.mhtml?i=20061009&s=lindorff</font></a><br> </div>
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<div>Your assessment that "I'll bet that we attack." may be more correct than I imagined. Still, I doubt that an attack will occur before the mid-terms...It's just too incredible!</div>
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<div>Quotes below from the Navy Times article at link given again (the same link is at the top of this post) below:</div>
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<div><a href="http://www.navytimes.com/story.php?f=1-292925-2149840.php">http://www.navytimes.com/story.php?f=1-292925-2149840.php</a></div>
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<div>The latter four warships were likely "bristling with Tomahawks," as a Sept. 21 story in The Nation reported — neglecting to note that all cruisers, destroyers and submarines deploy armed with the standard weapons.</div>
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<p>But the story's premise — that the "bristling" group is headed off to the gulf in order to take part in a strike against Iranian nuclear facilities — reflects what some experts and pundits regard as inevitable, given the intense war of words between the two nations.
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<div>A Sept. 25 Time magazine article that studied the possibility of war with Iran — and reported that Chief of Naval Operations Adm. Mike Mullen recently requested a review of plans to blockade two Iranian ports, a report the Navy did not deny outright — was taken seriously enough to be introduced into the record of a Sept. 26 congressional hearing held by the House Subcommittee on National Security, Emerging Threats and International Relations.
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<div>Vision2020 Post by Ted Moffett</div><br>
<div><span class="gmail_quote">On 10/14/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">Chasuk</b> <<a href="mailto:chasuk@gmail.com">chasuk@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</span>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid">On 10/14/06, Ted Moffett <<a href="mailto:starbliss@gmail.com">starbliss@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br><br>
> I don't think the US will attack Iran soon, but I wouldn't want to be<br>> against it, either.<br><br>I'll bet that we attack. I'm too broke to back that bet with money,<br>but that's my intuition. I hope I'm wrong, of course.
<br><br>--<br>"Intolerance betrays want of faith in one's cause." -- Mahatma Gandhi<br></blockquote></div><br>