[Texgreen] Surely Bush wouldn't do that

[Roger Baker]

<http://www.buzzflash.com/articles/contributors/461#comment-2132>

... I hope I am wrong about all this, but the sailing of the  
Eisenhower, which had been pushed forward recently by about a month  
by the Pentagon for clearly political reasons, makes me think I'm  
right. A key will be what happens with the Enterprise carrier strike  
force, which has already been on station in the Arabian Sea for six  
months, where it has been launching air strikes against Afghanistan  
and Iraq targets. Ordinarily, such deployments last six months and  
then the carrier group returns to base for resupply and for R&R for  
the crew. If the Enterprise is held over for a longer deployment,  
after the arrival of the Eisenhower, we will know that something  
serious is planned.

What is deeply troubling here is the total silence on the part of the  
Democratic Party opposition. Not one Democrat in Congress, and as far  
as I know, not one Democratic candidate for Congress -- not even anti- 
war insurgent Ned Lamont in Connecticut -- has demanded an answer  
from Bush and the Pentagon for the obvious military buildup around  
Iran, or about published reports that the U.S. already has special  
forces in side Iran backing the terrorist organization MEK, and  
selecting targets for U.S. bombardment...