unfortunately, I dont think it is posturing that is causing the yanks
1) to double their strategic petroleum reserve... (
http://www.axcessnews.com/modules/wf...rticleid=12809)
2) Placing 2 Aircraft carriers in the gulf...(
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070103/...a_gulf_navy_dc)
3) Increasing purchases of Aviation Fuel in the Gulf...
If they do this, it will be the biggest walk into a trap ever made. The current Premier of Iran is standing on very thin ice with the populace; it would be best left alone to allow democracy, as supported by Iran, to oust this despot. Any action against iran, pictures of dead iranian babies in the news, poisoned water supplies after the yanks bomb factories producing enriched uranium, will only prove right everything Ahmadinejad has said so far...
Just as the american populace will do with the incumbent nut in place in America at the next elections. I dont fancy risking my life for incumbent nutters over arguments that have very little do with the real world and lots to do with ego.