Seven US Navy aircraft carrier groups have been sent to sea in a "routine" training exercise from Virginia:

 http://www.wavy.com/Global/story.asp?S=1902088


Meanwhile on the west coast, at the same time in San Diego:

SAN DIEGO – More than 5,000 sailors and Marines with the Belleau Wood Expeditionary Strike Group left San Diego today

 http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/military/20040527-0501-strikegroup.html

for a six-month deployment in the Western Pacific and the Persian Gulf. . . .[including] the amphibious assault ship Belleau Wood, the amphibious transport dock Denver and amphibious dock landing ship Comstock


About half of the US surface fleet has been deployed at the same time

the California squadron is under Marine Corps command, and gives every sign of being the basis of the potential delivery system for an amphibious invasion.

Now we know that Bush is going down the tubes in terms of all the polls, latest CBS poll has Bush's approval rating at minus 10% (ie. the negatives -- those who don't approve, are a whopping 10% above the positives

 http://www.cpod.ubc.ca/polls/index.cfm?fuseaction=viewItem&itemID=2852

Good time for a war! Get those rednecks waving American flags again.

So what's really going on? Is this reinforcements for a summer offensive in Iraq? Is this an attack on Iran? Is this a threatening of Libya (which we were told yesterday imported nuclear components from Turkey covertly) .... or Cuba? North Korea?

Or is this the long war-gamed intervention into Saudi Arabia to deal with
 http://www.guardian.co.uk/saudi/story/0,11599,1228004,00.html