Iranian Speedboats in Gulf of Hormuz

Mr. Bush said:


"I don't know what their thinking was, but I'm telling you what I think it was, I think it was a provocative act."

The US president was speaking in the White House Rose Garden on the first anniversary of the Iraq troop surge, hours before leaving for a week-long Middle East trip.

i don't know
what their thinking was

this is a common loaded rhetorical statement which communicates disinterest in the other person or party ... it shows a closed mind and a hardened spirit

but I'm telling you what I think it was
I think it was a provocative act

with this our president has stated to the world
what he wishes to think and believe
and what he wishes us to think and believe

in other words
get ready for war
echoes of the bay of tonkin

also:

What is this Iran provocation BS?
Source: CounterPunch
Author: David Lindorff
Posted on 01.08.08 by Mary Lou Seymour

“Not one news story about this week’s latest chapter in the administration’s ongoing effort to gin up a crazy war with Iran–the so-called ‘provocation’ caused by Iranian naval speedboats approaching within 200 meters of a US destroyer–mentioned that the US, which sits some 7500 miles away from Iran, has sent a whole fully-armed armada into the Persian Gulf just off Iran’s coast. Or that the Vice President actually flew out to an aircraft carrier that was part of that US armada, and threatened, from the flight deck, to have the US massively attack Iran. Just who is provoking whom where?” (01/08/08)

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