Has George Bush heard a Filipino Monkey ?

Last Monday, on his final State of the Union address, George Bush was quite tough against Iran, saying : «America will confront those who threaten our troops, we will stand by our allies and we will defend our vital interests in the Persian Gulf.»
This speech clearly refers to the US-Iran naval dispute, when an Iranian Revolutionary guards speed boat allegedly threathened US Navy ships (read my previous post).

The US Navy official paper Navy Times published a story explaining that this radio engagement may very well have been hijacked by a heckler nicknamed by the crews of the Gulf region «Filipino Monkey». The entire article is available on the Navy Times website.

Like often in this kind of situation, this last information was virtually not reported in the press. For the media, it is  much more exciting to tell about the dangers of Iran or the threat of war that the facts that contradict this scenario are not given as much importance as the bellicist statements coming from the administration.

It confirms a very old rule : «si vis bellum, para bellum».