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Great news. SST is an essential sort of information asset. I've been lurking, not commenting as it would have been superfluous. But I read all the time and depend on you for your insights(which I trust) and on your chosen flock of fellow veterans, who I can also trust because you vouch for them. It's heroic what you do. Keep at it.
Commented Jun 14, 2017 on A renewed SST on July 5th at Sic Semper Tyrannis
A renewed SST on July 5th
I will begin posting my own articles on that day. There will be clarified rules about posts, comments, and trollcontrols. pl
Oops. Meant to say that the refuelling issue has been solved. Not enough coffee.
Commented Mar 21, 2012 on Goldberg on Israeli War with Iran at Sic Semper Tyrannis
Goldberg on Israeli War with Iran
"After interviewing many people with direct knowledge of internal government thinking, however, I’m highly confident that Netanyahu isn’t bluffing -- that he is in fact counting down to the day when he will authorize a strike against a half-dozen or more Iranian nuclear sites. One reason I’m ...
A Forbes business blogger reported last month that an arms-dealer contact was reporting that the Saudis have agreed to Israeli use of one of their bases and that a June date for the Israeli strike has been set:
http://www.forbes.com/sites/petercohan/2012/02/26/will-saudi-arabia-support-an-israeli-attack-on-iran-in-june/
There is an air base at King Khalid Military City which is good to go and which supported B-52′s and KC-135′s in the 1991 Gulf War. If the IAF has use of that as a staging and recovery facility, then the F-15′s and F-16′s could strike the Iran target set at will. The base at King Khalid is in the desert and offers air-tight op-sec, if the Saudis close it off and lock it down. There aren’t any civilians around; the place is exclusively military. The IAF wouldn't have to base out of it, just use it as a place to get fuel, the way SAC B-47s used the ring of forward bases after 1957, when they were within range of the Soviet medium and intermediate range ballistic missiles. I'm sure that if Bibi seriously means to go, that the refuelling issue hasn't been solved and I'm with Col. Lang: I don't think Bibi's bluffing this time.
Commented Mar 21, 2012 on Goldberg on Israeli War with Iran at Sic Semper Tyrannis
Goldberg on Israeli War with Iran
"After interviewing many people with direct knowledge of internal government thinking, however, I’m highly confident that Netanyahu isn’t bluffing -- that he is in fact counting down to the day when he will authorize a strike against a half-dozen or more Iranian nuclear sites. One reason I’m ...
Gareth Porter, who's no slouch, thinks the Delhi bombing was an Israeli false flag.
http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/opinion/2012/02/201222985228671645.html
Commented Mar 12, 2012 on "Israel’s Assassins and Tehran’s Killers (courtesy of Truthout)" by Richard Sale at Sic Semper Tyrannis
"Israel’s Assassins and Tehran’s Killers (courtesy of Truthout)" by Richard Sale
By Richard Sale, former UPI Intelligence Correspondent They are dying one by one. They are Iran’s nuclear scientists, and they are being murdered. Since 2007, five Iranian nuclear scientists have been killed in Iranian territory, many victims dying from magnetic bombs that terrorists had ...
Col., could the latest round of supposedly Iranian hit-job attempts in Thailand, India, and Georgia be a false flag? They were so sloppy that they look like they were designed to fail, and from what I understand sloppiness isn't the MO of either al-Quds or the Hezbollah. Moreover they looked like a kind of lousy imitation of the MEK's SOP of motorcycle hits. Could those have been MEK/Mossad trying to pass as Iranian? I had the same thought about the Chihuahua plot with the used car dealer. Both looked like they were intended to fail visibly.
Commented Feb 16, 2012 on "Brewed by Starbucks" at Sic Semper Tyrannis
"Brewed by Starbucks"
"Morning Joe" is becoming a useful indicator of the state of the "fever chart" in New York, Atlanta, Washington and other such centers of Israeli agitprop. Today, the kaffeeklatch gathered around the stamtisch in MSNBC equivalent of a Muinch beerhall. After mutual congratulation concerning ...
Col., what happens if the Israelis hit Iran and the Iranians counter-punch at both the Israelis and us? That's what Iran has said it would do. It seems to me that sets off an escalation ladder whether we want it or not. As I understand it, that was Cheney's final scheme for sucking us in, after it became clear that GW Bush was listening to SecDef Gates, who in his turn, was listening to his Brass, notably Adm. Mullen. Col. Sam Gardiner had a paper out a couple of years back that posited U.S. involvement as a given in such a scenario.
Commented Feb 2, 2012 on Dempsey and the Israelis at Sic Semper Tyrannis
Dempsey and the Israelis
"Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Martin Dempsey told Israeli leaders Jan. 20 that the United States would not participate in a war against Iran begun by Israel without prior agreement from Washington, according to accounts from well-placed senior military officers. Dempsey's warn...
Ah, as I suspected an Info Ops. Manhami is a tool:
http://www.yourish.com/2007/06/17/3306
Seems he's one of Bibi's outlets, as you say. Thanks. This story just got a lot less plausible. It sure smelled funny.
Commented Jan 24, 2012 on Dempsey's Sinatra concert at Sic Semper Tyrannis
Dempsey's Sinatra concert
"Recently, Obama called Netanyahu asking for clarifications regarding [a possible] attack [against Iran]. According to the Sunday Times report, the conversation was strained, and the Prime Minister explained his position, insisting that he would refuse to share details with the White House, s...
Col.
There's something odd about this story. The Sunday Times article cited has no link and I can't find one anywhere else, nor does the original come up on Google News. The story certainly sounds plausible but it's odd not to have an original. Information ops?
Commented Jan 24, 2012 on Dempsey's Sinatra concert at Sic Semper Tyrannis
Dempsey's Sinatra concert
"Recently, Obama called Netanyahu asking for clarifications regarding [a possible] attack [against Iran]. According to the Sunday Times report, the conversation was strained, and the Prime Minister explained his position, insisting that he would refuse to share details with the White House, s...
Col. that bit about Gens. Mattis and Dempsey being told that Obama wasn't on for reining in the Israelis was chilling, if chillingly plausible. If that's true, a war is just around the corner. Is that why Gen. Dempsey has been saying that we have no way of knowing if or when the Israelis are going to launch a strike? Doesn't Obama realize that an Israeli strike is almost certain to suck us in, one way or the other?
Commented Dec 9, 2011 on "What Israel's War Against Iran Would Look Like" Sale at Sic Semper Tyrannis
"What Israel's War Against Iran Would Look Like" Sale
"According to several respected US analysts on the Middle East, such as Vince Cannistraro, former CIA head of counterterrorism, and Judith Yaphe of National Defense University, the message emanating from Israel and its right-wing US supporters is that the road to Jerusalem and an Arab-Israel...
The interesting thing as I recall was that the JP Morgan faction of the Liberty League wanted Doug MacArthur but someone pointed out that, after the Bonus Army busting he ordered in 1932, he might not be the best fit to head a Croix-de-Feu type of Fascist Veterans Legion.
Commented Dec 5, 2011 on Several things from the Sunday newsies. at Sic Semper Tyrannis
Several things from the Sunday newsies.
– On GPS today Gideon Rose, the editor of Foreign Affairs, stated that "now we are all Israelis." He based this on conversations with officials in Washington who indicated to him that a nuclear Iran was "intolerable." He further stated that this reflects his view that Iranian progress on nuc...
Rafasanjani is rumored to have close ties to the regular Iranian military, which is distinct from the IRGC. The IRGC has 140,000 troops, the military has 800,000, according to Wikipedia. Might be a bit of the Wehrmacht-SS rivalry brewing up there. Ostensibly, the military guards the frontiers, while the IRGC guards the revolution but then the revolution was one of, by, and for the clerics. Possible scenario though how likely it might be is impossible to tell at this distance.
Commented Jul 7, 2009 on So How Many Divisions Do The Clerics Have? at Newshoggers.com
So How Many Divisions Do The Clerics Have?
By Steve Hynd There's been a lot written in the West about the Iranian election protests, mostly by those who have a vested career or ideological interest in seeing the whole semi-democratic theocracy instituted by the 1979 revolution fall. Cynically, for many American pundits it all comes down ...
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