The Fifteen

EXERPT;

Tehran is already using the disinformation claim that the boarding party was in Iran's waters in order to befuddle the opposition, obliging America to choose between its fastidious British ally and the treacherous Baghdad government. Iraqi Coast Guard official Gen. Hakim Jassim, at the direction of the Maliki government's Mahdist cronies, was speaking with calculated deception when he implied the British were not inside Iraq waters: "We were informed by Iraqi fisherman after they had returned from sea that there were British gunboats in an area that is out of Iraqi control. We don't know why they were there." This is an example of the scale of double-crossing that America refuses to see and acknowledge about its Iraqi ally
What can be seen from early spring is that the dauntless United States Navy and its global intelligence-gathering system cannot prevent Tehran from attacking at will.

What can be observed also is that Pax Americana, the chimerical presumption since the fall of genocidal Berlin and imperialist Tokyo that American policy is irresistible, that this arrogance is gone like the Spartans.

What can be concluded is that America is without a plan to answer the Persians in their apocalyptic passion to conquer. Xerxes is in the field. The 110th Congress's House of Representatives kneels.

What can be concluded also is how far America has fallen away from that fertile summer of 1904 when the cocksure Teddy Roosevelt and his crafty secretary of state, John Hay,in order to excite the Republicans in nomination convention at Chicago sent a grandstanding message about another piratical Moslem warlord. The June 1904 message to the American Consul-Gen. Samuel Gummere at Tangier that swelled the chest of the gun-slinging American people was, "Gummere, Tangier. We want either Pedicaris alive or Rais Uli dead. HAY."

And what is the likelihood that Washington and Whitehall will send the appropriate message to Vice Admiral Kevin J. Congriff commanding the Fifth Fleet at Bahrain: "We want either the 15 alive or Ahmadinejad dead"?