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The October Surprise
Six weeks until the battle begins

This past March, the USS Aircraft Carrier John C. Stennis made it’s way back to the ship’s homeport of Bremerton Washington for maintenance and some retrofitting scheduled to last until late December. In early July The US Defense Department ordered the Stennis carrier battle group to speed up the process and be ready to set sail by late August.

Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta made a rare visit to the Puget Sound Naval Shipyard himself on August 22nd to thank the crew for getting the ship ready four months ahead of schedule. The USS Stennis set sail from Bremerton on August 27th. Sailing out of San Diego California on September 1st was the Guided Missile Cruiser USS Mobile Bay, also called out of port four months early. The Mobile Bay will hook up with the Stennis enroute to the Middle East for what Defense Secretary Panetta said was to “ deal with any contingency that develops in the Middle East.”

Sounds like a lot of fire power but it becomes an enormous amount of fire power considering the move is to surge the U.S. 5th fleet presence in the Persian Gulf, not replace another carrier group. The Carrier Strike Group USS Enterprise and USS Dwight D Eisenhower are already in the region along with the Amphibious Ready Group USS Iwo Jima. Yet even more firepower is on the way.
On Saturday August 12th, Great Britain announced the deployment of warships to the Gulf Region for what they called a routine series of naval exercises with their allies this coming October and November. The Royal Navy’s Response Force Task Group (RFTG) was scheduled to deploy shortly after the Summer Olympics were completed as members of the RFTG were engaged in Olympic Security. The British Foreign Office issued their own press release not mentioning the routine naval exercises, stating the ships could be used if needed to evacuate British Citizens from Syria and other countries. There are very few British Citizens left in Syria as a travel warning was issued to British Citizens over a year earlier in April 2011. At that time the Foreign Office urged British Citizens not to travel to Syria and to leave on available commercial airlines.

Earlier today on Friday September 7th, Canada announced it was closing its embassy in Iran and ordered all Iranian Diplomats and their staff to be out of Canada within five days. The announcement was not made until the Canadian Diplomatic Staff in Iran had already left the county to insure their safety. This is a move Canada would surely not have made without first consulting with the U.S. Government or being forewarned of a pending event.

The Council on Foreign Relations estimates Iran could have a nuclear weapon before U.S. President Obama completes his first term in office. President Obama, moving to quell his military and pro Israeli critics has said he will not allow Iran to have a nuclear weapon. His support amongst Jewish voters has slipped extensively since 2008. The announcement by Tehran that they have manufactured a nuclear bomb would cause a major drop in support for the President’s reelection effort and almost insure his defeat. Yet, other Nuclear watchdog groups including the IAEC estimates Iran is still two to three years away from having the capability to construct a nuclear bomb.

It doesn’t matter what the intelligence says. The man who accused President George Bush of manufacturing false intelligence information to invade Iraq is about to do the same thing himself in Iran.

So get out the popcorn because in about six weeks our President is going to go on national television and make his case based on intelligence information that says we clearly could not wait any longer. Of course he will use the term “American Forces, along with our allies…” Can’t make it seem like it was only an American idea.

We know what the true intelligence says: Mr. President, you are losing the election. Better try and divert everyone’s attention from your poor leadership, your no jobs policies, your government intervention, your massive spending debt and your community killing policies of the EPA. “Good idea Mr. Axelrod, what country do you think I should attack?”