US Carriers Headed to Gulf

Hot on the heels of a post I wrote about the Bush admin. hyping Iran as a threat ("Iran -- The Next War?"), I cam across this Newsweek story posted at Think Progress (emphasis theirs):

At least one former White House official contends that some Bush advisers secretly want an excuse to attack Iran. "They intend to be as provocative as possible and make the Iranians do something [America] would be forced to retaliate for," says Hillary Mann, the administration's former National Security Council director for Iran and Persian Gulf Affairs...

A second Navy carrier group is steaming toward the Persian Gulf, and NEWSWEEK has learned that a third carrier will likely follow. Iran shot off a few missiles in those same tense waters last week, in a highly publicized test. With Americans and Iranians jousting on the chaotic battleground of Iraq, the chances of a small incident’s spiraling into a crisis are higher than they’ve been in years.

Here's a crazy idea -- how about we finish one idiotic, expensive, and pointless fight before we start another?

Tags: news | politics | war | Iran | Military | Bush | morons