Also, on the modern battlefield, missles can sink Aircraft Carriers with accuracy at a range much further than the Carrier’s Aircraft can fly. In fact, iirc, the Headquarters for our Persian Gulf Fleet is within range of Iranian land-based missles now.

20 years after the Falklands, all of our ships have come to look like the former Argentine Battleship, General Belgrano – shadowed for days before it was torpedoed with ease.

Even if Bush did attack, the Iranians could sink any ship in the Gulf with ease – think of it as ‘Straits of Hormuz’ IEDs – for as long as they wanted to.

It would be Worldwide Chaos if Bush followed thru on his Folly – which might be OK with Bush, Cheney and Rumsfeld, compared to being Tried for War Crimes.

The only thing that scares me is Bush and Cheney’s desperate and depraved state of mind.

You might want to check out the web site of Burdeshaw & Associates:

http://www.burdeshaw.com/index.asp

As you can see, they are one of the original “Rent a General” organizations in DC. I did a few jobs for them early in my retirement – mostly Proposal Red Team stuff – and they were referred to in those days as “The Rent a General” company.

Also while riding around the golf course with Vallely, he seemed to talk about his experiences in Indonesia. Mostly stuff that was meant to impress the rest of the foursome, as I recall.

Adm. Fallon appears to have said, with the apparent backing of his entire Centcom Staff, that attacking Iran would be an Unmitigated Military Disaster.

Not what Chimpy wanted to hear…so, Fallon was Railroaded out with help, no doubt, from Eager to Please Tattletale Betrayus over the Politically Trumped-Up Issue of alleged Iranian-sourced IEDs, or possibly even Iranian-sourced IED ‘know-how.’

Imvho, it was total Bullshit – in this article, Adm. Fallon all but suggests that the “[Petraeus is an] ass-kissing little chickenshit” article was manipulated to engineer a public confrontation with Betrayus in order to ‘invite’ Bush to make a Choice between Field Commanders.

In that confrontation, Betrayus obviously said that Fallon was ‘Not A Warrior,’ and Bush agreed.

So, imho, Fallon did the Honorable thing, and resigned, rather than engage Bush’s Fantasy of Militarily Humiliating Iran, as an Ass-Kissing Little Chickenshit would.