Coming Closer to War with Iran

From NPR's All Things Considered, January 18, 2007, "Retired Army Generals Criticize Bush's Iraq Plan" by David Welna

Beyond Iraq, senators also wanted to know if there's anything to growing talk of a possible U.S. attack on Iran. Former U.S. Centcom commander Gen. Joseph Hoar would not dismiss that possibility.

"I don't know why you have two carrier battle groups in the Gulf," Hoar said, "when fixed-wing air — while an essential part of any campaign — doesn't require a lot of airplanes on a day-to-day basis; and why you would have an admiral in charge of Centcom when you have two essentially ground combat operations going in two separate campaigns."

Hoar said those discrepancies "would all indicate to me that there's something moving right now towards Iran."

(The article is here.)