Why Does American Foreign Policy Have To Be Based On The U.S. Election Cycle?

Here's something you probably won't hear from the Corporate Media -- it appears that Admiral Karl Rove has taken control of the fleet (via Buzzflash):

The nuclear-powered aircraft carrier Eisenhower and its accompanying strike force of cruiser, destroyer and attack submarine slipped their moorings and headed off for the Persian Gulf region on Oct. 2, as I had predicted in a piece in The Nation magazine a few weeks back.

The Eisenhower strike force, according to my sources, is scheduled to arrive in the vicinity of Iran around October 21, at the same time as a second flotilla of minesweepers and other ships.

This build-up of naval power around the coast of Iran, according to some military sources, is in preparation for an air attack on Iran that would target not just Iran's nuclear enrichment facilities, but its entire military command and control system.

While such an attack could be expected to unleash a wave of military violence all over Iraq, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait and elsewhere against American forces and interests and against oil wells, pipelines and loading vacilities, as well as a mining of the Persian Gulf and the Strait of Hormuz, with a resulting skyrocketing of global oil prices, the real goal of this new war by the U.S. would be ensuring Republican control of the House and Senate. * * *

It looks like my prediction from last June will be a bit off. I predicted that the U.S. attack on Iran will occur "sometime between mid-September and mid-October 2006." Now it is starting to look like Rove will attack sometime in late October.

Aren't you cutting it a little close there, Karl?