News: The Pentagon spun a minor melee off the coast of Iran into a direct menace to U.S. interests. Why isn't Congress concerned?
By Brian Beutler, The Media Consortium
February 22, 2008
"You will explode in a few minutes." According to the Pentagon, those menacing words, directed at U.S. warships, came from an Iranian Guard Corps sailor aboard an armed speedboat that maneuvered uncomfortably close to the American ships in the Strait of Hormuz early last month. The incident very nearly escalated into a military confrontation with Iran.
But there's a problem with the Pentagon's version of events: it was highly misleading. The threat likely didn't come from an Iranian sailor, nor was the confrontation as dramatic as the Pentagon portrayed it. Yet, the administration nearly spun this fairly insignificant episode into a casus belli. How has the Democratic Congress reacted to the Pentagon's phony depiction of this encounter? It hasn't. Six weeks have passed without any hint of a congressional inquiry.
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