A senior navy official said recently that a deployment to the Gulf would send a message.

Some how I think this is not the message, but this. Note some of the companies – isn’t “Hunt O’l” a Texan firm? Big Bush fundraisers? Yep.

And oh HO, what’s this?

Service companies

First Exchange Corporation
Halliburton
TGS-Nopec
Veritas

Well, that’s just plain old All-American sabre-rattling. No harm in that. And now I think I’ll stroll off to AAR and post it somewhere.

Meanwhile, surely the US Navy could do a little humanitarian medical work pro bono in the area? Asking too much? Or at least shut down those annoying Nigerian spammers??