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    Deranged death walrus wants more war Archived Message

    Posted by Raskolnikov on May 6, 2019, 7:42 am

    You just can't keep a socipathic war criminal lunatic down.

    The US is sending an aircraft carrier and a bomber task force to the Middle East in response to a “number of troubling and escalatory indications and warnings” from Iran, the national security advisor John Bolton has said.

    It was unclear on Sunday night what Iranian actions Bolton was referring to. There have been no recent incidents in the Persian Gulf where US and Iranian navies are routinely in close proximity and the Abraham Lincoln carrier strike group was already bound for the Gulf a month before Bolton made his announcement.

    However, the tone of Bolton’s declaration looked likely to escalate tensions in the region, and it comes days after the Iranian government expressed concern that Bolton and other hawks were seeking to draw the Trump administration into a new war.

    So far, so pointlessly antagonistic and reckless.

    “The United States is not seeking war with the Iranian regime, but we are fully prepared to respond to any attack, whether by proxy, the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, or regular Iranian forces,” the statement said.

    Please! That's all you want, all the time. To mangle Matt Taibbi's great quote on Goldman Sachs, the U.S. is like "...a great vampire squid wrapped around the face of humanity, relentlessly jamming its blood funnel into anything that smells like conflict (and thus money).”

    Then, buried some dozen paragraphs down you get this:

    Bolton gave no details of the alleged “troubling and escalatory indications and warnings” from Iran. Mark Dubowitz, the head of the Foundation for the Defence of Democracies who has long supported a tough approach to Iran, argued that Hamas rocket attacks against Israel could have been orchestrated by Iran as part of a campaign against the US and its regional allies.

    “Actually, ‘intimidating’ the regime in Iran by promising overwhelming force in response to intel that they may be considering striking US assets or allies is called deterrence and could help dissuade them,” Dubowitz wrote on Twitter.

    First of all, how Orwellian is "The Foundation for the Defence of Democracies"? Christ on a bike. Just call it Minipax and be done with with.

    But buried in there is probably the real reason for this deliberate escalation; the tail is wagging the dog again and they are trying to tie their bloodthirsty crimes against humanity in Gaza to their longer term aim to attack Iran.

    Also Mark, it's not called "deterence", it's called reckless war mongering and military agression and generally doesn't "dissuade them", it usually has the opposite effect, but then that is probably the point of it all.

    The more Bolton flaps his gums, the more I rue the demise of the political assassin.

    https://www.dumptheguardian.com/world/2019/may/06/us-deploys-aircraft-carrier-and-bombers-after-troubling-indications-from-iran

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