The Congress, the Senate, the media, the editorial writers and the voters did not perform Due Diligence and as a result we have lost more than 3,000 service men and women and face certain defeat in Iraq. Yet now these same institutions that have the responsibility to thoroughly examine proposed military actions before they are allowed to just happen have again refused to do Due Diligence with respect to the deployment of more than 20,000 sailors and marines to the Persian Gulf.
The Iranians have Russian made SS-N-22 Sunburn and more advanced and SS-NX-26 Yakhonts anti-ship missiles both of which were designed by to sink American aircraft carriers. The Sunburn has a range of 90 miles and travels at Mach 2.5 nine feet above sea level. The Sunburn and the Yakhonts both have air launched versions which can threaten U.S. naval forces in the Gulf of Oman and as far away as Diego Garcia. The Iranians also have 300 NATO made Exocets. An Exocet sank the HMS Sheffield during the Falkland Islands war. The Iranians also have submarines and commercial freighters capable of firing Exocets. Additionally, They have older Chinese Silkworm missiles. What this means is that within minutes of any attack on Iran by either Israel or the United States we will lose 20,000 plus sailors and marines.
The question none in the Senate and the Congress have dared to ask is "Just what is their mission?" Are they to serve as another Pearl Harbor type incident to launch World War III? They have no known military function. I repeat: They have no known military function. They cannot attack Iran without being sacrificed. The press and the Congress should be asking if the President has sent them on a suicide mission. The administration should be hounded until they tell us why so many our sailors are being deployed in the Gulf where they can so easily be killed? What is the reasoning behind this madness?
Where is the Loyal Opposition? Where are the Republican Senators and Congressman who in the past have told us to support our troops? Where are the editorial writers who were negligent in examining the pre Iraq war intelligence and ought to be atoning for their past sins? Where are the voters, the informed electorate?
We must ask the Senate and the House to hold hearings on the deployment of so many men and women into harms way? They must perform Due Diligence before anyone dies not afterwards as was the case in the Iraq disaster.
Poster Comment:
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