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Date: June 25, 2007 9:58:01 PM PDT
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Subject: Cheney Promised Israel FOUR U.S. Carriers vs Iran; No. 4
Arrives NEXT WEEK ....
A third US carrier,
the nuclear-powered USS Enterprise Strike Group,
is speeding towards the Persian Gulf
ARABIAN SEA - (from foreground) USS Nimitz (CVN 68), USS Bonhomme
Richard (LHD 6) and USS John C. Stennis (CVN 74) transit the Gulf
of Oman. The three ships are flagships for three different strike
groups; the Nimitz Carrier Strike Group, Bonhomme Richard
Expeditionary Strike Group, and the John C. Stennis Carrier Strike
Group, which are on regularly, scheduled deployments in support of
Maritime Operations. Maritime Operations help set the conditions
for security and stability, as well as complement counter-terrorism
and security efforts to regional nations. U.S. Navy photo by Mass
Communication Specialist 1st Class Denny Cantrell
June 21, 2007, 9:06 PM (GMT+02:00)
http://www.debka.com/headline.php?hid=4334
According to DEBKAfile’s military sources, the US naval build-up
off the shores of Iran marks rising military tensions in the
region, accentuated by last week’s Hamas victory which has endowed
Iran with a military foothold on Israel’s southwestern border.
The USS Enterprise CVN 65-Big E Strike Group will join the USS
Stennis and the USS Nimitz carriers, building up the largest sea,
air, marine concentration the United States has ever deployed
opposite Iran. This goes towards making good on the assurances of
the FOUR carriers US Vice President Dick Cheney offered Gulf and
Middle East nations during his May tour of the region.
The “Big E” leads a strike group consisting of the guided-missile
destroyers USS Arleigh Burke DDG 51, USS Stout DDG 55, Forrest
Sherman DDG 98 and USS James E. Williams DDG 95, as well as the
guided missile cruiser USS Gettysburg CG 64, the SS Philadelphia
SSN 690 nuclear submarine and the USNS Supply T-AOE 6>
On its decks are the Carrier Air Wing CVW 1, whose pilots fought
combat missions in the Gulf and Arabian Sea during 2006. The Air
Wing is made up of F/Q-18 Super Hornet strike craft, the
Sidewinders Strike Fighter Squadron VFA-86, the 251st Marine
Fighter Attack Squadron MFA, and the Electronic Attack Squadron VAQ
137.
The 32nd Sea Control Squadron VS consists of S-3B Vikings. The
Airborne Early Warning Squadron VAQ 3 flies E-2C Hawkeye craft. The
Fleet Logistics Support Squadron VRC is based on C-2A Greyhounds.
DEBKAfile’s military sources report Washington is deploying the
FOURTH US carrier for the region in the Red Sea opposite Saudi
Arabian western coast to secure the THREE carriers in the Gulf from
the rear as well as the Gulf of Aqaba and Suez Canal.
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FOURTH U.S. Strike Group Arriving in Gulf by JULY
http://harpers.org/archive/2007/06/hbc-90000350
The U.S. deployment of forces into striking range of Iran is now
staggering, and largely unremarked upon. America has two carrier
strike groups, the USS Nimitz and the USS Stennis, already in the
Persian Gulf. Within a day, they will be joined by a third carrier
strike group, the USS Enterprise. And next week a fourth strike
group, the USS Truman will arrive in the Red Sea, bringing itself
into range to support Iran-focal operations.
So where does that put us? Four aircraft carriers, 12-16
destroyers, 4-8 submarines, 4-8 AEGIS cruisers, and over 200 strike
aircraft. The world has not witnessed such a mustering of naval
might since… the invasion of Iraq. And that’s just the naval side
of things (though it does help explain the logic behind putting an
admiral in charge of CENTCOM).
The data on land force movements is harder to secure or track. But
all around Iran, preparations have been put in place, including at
the “lilypads” that Rumsfeld carefully secured and developed – on
Azerbaijan’s Absheron peninsula; outside of Mary, Turkmenistan and
in the Turkmen desert; in the Kyrgyz Republic; in Afghanistan; on
islands in the Persian Gulf and in Pakistan.
One of the distinctive tactical advantages that America will have
in this conflict will be the ability to attack Iran from every
direction.
Psychological Preparation
The American public must be prepared to support the war. It must
understand the nature of the threat from Iran as existential. This
will be pursued through a media psy-ops campaign along the same
lines as used in the run up to the Iraq war. The stress will be on
Iran’s nuclear program and the prospect of Iranian nuclear weapons
being used against the United States. Delivery systems are of
course a serious problem with this analysis, but don’t expect
stories to focus on that. Expect the story to emerge first among
the likely suspects. In fact, take the time to pick up and read the
current issue of Commentary. I have. It contains a media roadmap.
Or just click on this link to watch Norman Podhoretz make the
essence of the case for bombing Iran that he states in more detail
in Commentary. But stay tuned to Fox News, the Weekly Standard, and
the editorial page of the Wall Street Journal for the complete psy-
ops feed.
The Regional Menace. The United States will portray Iran as a force
for evil throughout the Middle East and beyond. The core will be
claims that Iranian bombs and weapons are wounding and killing
American soldiers in Iraq. This is a highly emotive and largely
disingenuous argument (indeed, you could say that Russian bombs and
weapons play a big role, for instance, and a large part of the
explosives used were, as the New York Times documented, seized from
stockpiles the U.S. left unguarded in the early months of the
occupation). Iran will also be portrayed as the force behind
Hizbollah in Lebanon and the Taliban in Afghanistan. There is
certainly some basis for the first claim, but the second is a
fraud. Analysts need to consider these accusations, of course, but
in light of the clearly articulated objectives of the war-party,
they need to be treated with skepticism. And, of course, inside of
Iran and throughout the Middle East, Iran will portray the United
States as the region’s greatest threat. Iran will point to U.S.
military cooperation with Israel as the core of American
intervention in the region, and it will point to the tens of
thousands of civilian deaths that resulted from a U.S. invasion of
Iraq on a now completely disproven pretext. Iran will use the fact
of good relations between the U.S. and its Middle Eastern allies as
a means of destabilizing those nations. And these tactics are all
likely to be very effective. In fact, Iran is emerging as a
regional hegemon, and it has been empowered in these aspirations by
the grossly inept conduct of Dick Cheney and his helpers.
Diplomatic Process
Today, Iran’s head nuclear negotiator Ali Larijani will meet with
the European Union’s foreign policy commissioner Javier Solana. No
one at this point is pinning any hopes for progress on this
meeting. Iran will not offer any meaningful concessions on its
nuclear program, and that is, at this point, all that really
matters. This will set the stage for a third U.N. Security Council
sanctions resolution sometime in August. The third resolution could
have considerably more “teeth” to it -- asset freezes against
Iranian banks, firms and individuals, a formal travel ban, and
possibly a ban on government export guarantees. An increasingly
tightening sanctions environment could have real consequences for
Iran economically, and for its nuclear program.
The problem for this approach is, quite frankly, Dick Cheney and
his language. He has done more to undermine the diplomatic approach
than any single person in world history. As a result of his
imprudent rhetoric, the key powers that need to be enlisted in this
effort – such as Russia – are intensely skeptical of America’s
intentions with respect to Iran.
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http://www.radianceweekly.com/strategic_affair.php?
content_id=460&issue_id=59
... On May 8, U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney made a six-day tour
of four key Middle East countries, Saudi Arabia, the United Arab
Emirates, Jordan and Egypt. According to senior American
intelligence sources in Washington and the region, the main focus
of Cheney's agenda was preparing [them] for a [U.S./Israeli]
military confrontation with Iran.
The Americans calculate playing the "sectarian" card -- the Shia-
Sunni fractiousness rehearsed in Iraq. They [are assuming] that
all four countries, leading Sunni allies of the United States,
would submit to Washington's pressure-tactics to ally with Israel.
Since Cheney's visit to Riyadh in November 2006, Vice President
Cheney and National Security Council Middle East director Elliot
Abrams have been forming a regional-states military and political
coalition against Iran.
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