02/28/08
The United States has ordered a warship into position off the coast of Lebanon.
The USS Cole was sent there amid growing concern about
the political impasse in the country, which has not had a president for
four months.The Western-backed governing coalition and the Syrian and Iranian-backed opposition are at loggerheads.
A US official quoted by news agencies said the
destroyer's deployment off the coast was designed as a "show of
support… for regional stability".
The official told Reuters news agency that the US was
concerned about the political deadlock in Lebanon, which Washington
blames on Syrian interference.
How many uncomfortable historical parallels can Team Bush create at once here? A U.S. warship off the coast of Lebanon? (For "regional stability," of course… It wouldn't dream of taking sides in a festering civil conflict.) And the Cole, for crying out loud?
Could be a trigger for that full-on oil war we've been talking about…
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We are still flexing muscles or is the last spasm before death?…
The orders from Jerusalem are still comming?…
Ah, all those questions…Better let’s put them aside and enjoy beeing American Patriots!
The Cole still has extensive problems in her reduction gearbox.
They’re probably going to sacrifice the gal in a false flag op for Israel.
Nothing to see here folks, move it along….
Same Cole (DDG-67) that was mined off Aden in 2000? probably not the most valuable asset of the US Navy…
USS Maine (ACR-1, mined in Havana 1898) rings a bell?