Yesterday's Strait of Hormuz "incident " - who believes the Pentagon?

[RiverStone]

WASHINGTON: In a confrontation in the strategic Strait of Hormuz, five armed Iranian boats approached three U.S. Navy warships in international waters, taking aggressive actions in a brief weekend confrontation described by the Pentagon as "reckless and dangerous."

The incident Sunday, which ended after about 20 minutes without damage, shots being fired or anyone being hurt, took place as the three American vessels were sailing into the Gulf, said Bryan Whitman, a Pentagon spokesman.

The Iranian government played down the episode, saying that it had ended immediately after the vessels recognized one another.

But Whitman and other U.S. officials described a tense confrontation in the strait, a narrow but vital passage through which millions of barrels of oil pass each day. Oil prices on world markets spiked briefly after the news, which was first reported by CNN on Monday morning.

more:

http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/01/07/africa/iran.php

Considering BushCo lied us into the Iraq war, how can anybody take any incident report from the Pentagon as truth? In reality, yesterday's incident may not have occurred at all. At the very least, the story as reported by the M$M may be a distant facsimile of what really happened.

I tend to believe a story like this is spun in Shrub's basement, and the war room mentality needs to put out primers to justify further action down the road.

Too bad so few see the tail is wagging the dog. :think:

[MadMaddie]

1. I hate to say it but I agree with you...

The first thought when I heard about it is that ..our military is being used to goad the Iranians....pushing them into a position that appears to the world as an attack...but in reality....they may be responding to being attacked.

I don't trust the Iranians and I don't trust * and the leadership of the military.

[in_cog_ni_to]

2. Not me. I don't believe a word these thugs say. They WANT a war with Iran and will provoke one...

when it's convenient for them to do so.

[nightrider767]

3. If it was real....

The Navy will have it on film and supply the video....

[Marrah_G]

4. The truth is somewhere in the middle

[MercutioATC]

6. hehe...hi there :)

we meet again...

[Marrah_G]

8. Yes we do!

This is becoming a habit!

:hi:

[MercutioATC]

5. This sort of thing happens all of the time...it's hardly farfetched.

I believe that it happened pretty much as reported...maybe the verbal threats by the Iranian crews were fabricated, but it's completely believable that some Iranian military craft buzzed a few of ours in international waters.

Both sides knew that firing first would be a violation of international law.

[Double T]

7. Why believe a bunch of habitual liars?

[ixion]

10. exactly

what's to believe? They never even think of telling the truth.

[TankLV]

9. Sorry - but I can never believe the repuke military - ever...

And make no mistake - this is the REPUKE military - not our country's...

Only IF and when the repukes are out of power, and every single repuke that was forced into the pentagon at the behest of this WAR CRMINAL pResident is rooted out and KICKED OUT, only then can I BEGIN to restore my faith in our military...

[defendandprotect]

11. indeed . . . WHO?

[Wwagsthedog]

12. Now why would the pentagon/* administration lie to us? nt