- If you ever feel like you're not getting any respect
like Rodney Dangerfield said, try calling various military installations
across the country, asking politely for their Public Affairs or Media Relations
office.
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- I don't do this very often or expect to get any important,
earth shattering information, as loose lips sink ships.
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- But occasionally I dial up my friendly war machine representative
to get a quick ego boost since everybody on the other end of the military
line is always saying "Yes, Sir, of course, Sir, I will Sir, wait
Sir, No Sir."
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- And finally when I get a word in edgewise they say: "Just
hold the line, Sir, and I'll direct your question, Sir, to my commanding
officer, Sir."
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- Over the years I've called hundreds of military bases,
flown on choppers, played war games with the 'Big Boys' off the coast of
Sicily and dined with the troops on Navy battle ships on several occasions.
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- The troops used to like me back then because I always
snuck on a bottle of good whiskey on board, pouring them shots out of my
secret flask I carried in my boots under the table in the ship's mess hall.
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- But lately I've limited my contact with the military
to only calling their PR people before impending nuclear attacks, which
now occurs about three or four times a year or about once every season.
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- And I think the last time I checked in with the military
brass across the country was when we were supposed to nuke Iran last August
in the Fall of the year.
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- As you may recall, reports back then were circulating
that Cheney, heir to the American thrown, was giving top level orders to
U.S. Strategic Command (STRATCOM) to bomb the living hell out of Iran since
it was then being leaked through the lackeys in the Washington press that
Iran was supporting bin Laden and Al Queda.
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- Following what was called the "Global Lightening"
mission, STRATCOM declared it was in an advanced state of readiness to
essentially blow up the world. While calling Iran "a threat to world
peace," even some Arab states are silently backing the U.S./Israeli
propaganda lies advanced by a crooked media essentially selling the world
a "bag of rotten apples."
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- So, with all that going on last Fall, I called around
to several military bases likely to be involved in the aerial assault as
well as the Pentagon, calling primarily to boost my ego and get called
Sir a hundred more times.
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- The story went nowhere. No nukes flew over Tehran. No
nothing. All that happened was a lot of talk and military readiness, as
they say in the war business.
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- But now, since its a new season, the same headlines are
flying all over the internet and elsewhere, reporting Cheney and his nuclear
thugs are once again celebrating Winter and gearing up for another nuclear
strike against Iran.
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- Stories on the internet by Michel Chossudovsky, Wayne
Madsen and others are again sounding the Iranian war drums, saying that
using nuclear warheads against Iran is in the final planning stages.
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- And James Petras, another Global Research writer, said
Israeli Prime Minister. Ariel Sharon, has given the attack signal to launch
attacks by the end of March, writing in December, adding:
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- "All top Israeli officials have pronounced the end
of March, 2006, as the deadline for launching a military assault on Iran....
The end of March date also coincides with the IAEA report to the UN on
Iran's nuclear energy program. Israeli policymakers believe that their
threats may influence the report, or at least force the kind of ambiguities,
which can be exploited by its overseas supporters to promote Security Council
sanctions or justify Israeli military action."
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- Further, Madsen, a former National Security Agency (NSA)
worker turned reporter, has been saying secret sources in the Pentagon
are leaking the nuke war is right around the proverbial corner
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- Madsen wrote on Jan. 3:
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- "Primary target: Bushehr nuclear reactor and hundreds
of Russian technicians.
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- Other first targets would be Shahab-I, II, and
III missile launch sites, air bases (including the large Mehrabad air base/international
airport near Tehran), naval installations on the Persian Gulf and Caspian
Sea, command, control, communications and intelligence facilities. Secondary
targets would include civilian airports, radio and TV installations, telecommunications
centers, government buildings, conventional power plants, highways and
bridges, and rail lines. Oil installations and commercial port facilities
would likely be relatively untouched by U.S. forces in order to preserve
them for U.S. oil and business interests."
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- Reports were also circulating that three major military
installations were involved in a new rapid increase in training, readiness
and manpower with 50,000 to 60,000 trainees being readied to deploy to
Iran after the nuclear strike. The installations included Fort Rucker in
Alabama, Hurlburt Field in Florida and Twentynine Palms in California.
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- Sound familiar like military Autumn again in Winter!
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- And it's like Deja Vu all over again, as Yogi would say,
as here I go again called into action like clockwork, once every season,
calling the three above-mentioned military installations, going to get
called Sir a hundred times and then asking the same perfunctory questions
expecting no answers."
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- This time, however, besides the ego boost, I got
lucky and got to talk to Second Lt. Amy Gonzales, who had a very sexy voice
when she said 'Sir' and who also was the PR nuke spokesperson for Hurlburt
Field in Florida, the home of the U.S. Air Force Special Operations Command.
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- I asked Lt. Gonzales if I could call her Amy and she
said "no problem," but I stopped short of asking if she was married,
thinking that might be a little too much.
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- She never disappointed me one bit throughout our conversation,
as she called me 'Sir' at least 10 times and even gave me a quote about
whether they were preparing to bomb Iran again.
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- "I am sorry Sir," keep going Amy, sounding
good. "It is military policy not to respond to ongoing operations.
Thank you, Sir, you will have to contact the Pentagon public affairs office,
Sir."
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- That made 12 'Sirs' and her voice was so sweet, with
a touch of a southern accent, I really didn't pay attention to what she
said.
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- But looking at my notes, taken literally it very well
could have been construed upon close examination that Amy was actually
affirming an overseas attack imminent with her simple non response.
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- I thought.
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- "Was she trying to tell me something? Did she like
my voice, too?"
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- Instead, I took what she said on face value, letting
the whole thing go and giving her the sweet benefit of the doubt, especially
considering that beautiful southern accent.
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- Moving on to bigger and better things and not to be denied
a few more chances of being called Sir, I called Fort Rucker, Twentynine
Palms and the Pentagon, almost forgetting about the impending nuclear war
and thinking if it happens, I'll call Amy back for protection, as she popped
back into my mind, thinking I could spend a few safe nights there at Fort
Rucker in case the you know what hits the fan.
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- Of course, I would have to pop the question about whether
she was married, but during a nuclear war, who really cares.
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- So, with that thought lingering and finally getting Amy
out of the way, remembering journalism and the truth were calling, I proceeded
telephoning all three installations, finding out nothing, getting called
Sir 39 times from stiff-shirted sergeants and then deciding to pack it
in fore the day, thinking my god, this is tedious work.
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- Thinking please, Fort Rucker, Amy and all of you just
nuke my house, as I do not want to have to go through the same story all
over again in the Spring.
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- On second thought, wait. There's Amy and there's all
those other people calling me 'Sir.'
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- So, if you don't mind, don't drop the nukes just yet.
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