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Coast Guard Conducts Training Exercise on Potomac
Fox News ^ | 09/11/2009 | Fox News

Posted on 09/11/2009 7:49:53 AM PDT by Dallas59

In an incident that sparked a brief panic on the same day mourners marked the anniversary of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, the Coast Guard was conducting a training exercise in the Potomac River moments before President Obama and his motorcade crossed a nearby bridge.

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Good gawd....
1 posted on 09/11/2009 7:49:53 AM PDT by Dallas59
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To: Dallas59

My BS-meter is going off the dial on this.


2 posted on 09/11/2009 7:51:27 AM PDT by Constitution Day
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To: Dallas59

That took some strategic planning - training exercise on 9/11 in Potomac River with President going to Pentagon!


3 posted on 09/11/2009 7:51:43 AM PDT by Brandonmark (News Coverage)
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To: Dallas59

Makes you wonder if they are lying.


4 posted on 09/11/2009 7:52:06 AM PDT by ThisLittleLightofMine
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To: Dallas59

I want to see the preexisting schedule for the exercise. Some training officer just stomped on himself wearing golf shoes, IMO.


5 posted on 09/11/2009 7:52:21 AM PDT by MortMan (Stubbing one's toes is a valid (if painful) way of locating furniture in the dark.)
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To: Dallas59

Let’s see, he hates the military, the CIA, police and now will find a way to hate the CG too, but is a sympathizer to terrorists.


6 posted on 09/11/2009 7:52:50 AM PDT by LegalEagle61 (If you are going to burn our flag, please make sure you are wearing it when you do!)
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To: Dallas59

First the NY flyover, now this.


7 posted on 09/11/2009 7:52:56 AM PDT by icwhatudo ("laws requiring compulsory abortion could be sustained under the existing Constitution"Obama Adviser)
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To: Constitution Day

Agreed. If true, the Commandant of the USCG should be asked to submit his retirement papers.


8 posted on 09/11/2009 7:52:58 AM PDT by tgusa (Gun control: deep breath, sight alignment, squeeze the trigger ....)
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To: Dallas59

Last time I checked USCG was on our team ~ Bammer should not worry!


9 posted on 09/11/2009 7:53:20 AM PDT by incredulous joe ("Live Free or Fight")
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To: Dallas59
If it was really a training exercise then the Coast Guard are idiots for scheduling it on 9/11 when they should be on high alert for non-exercise activities. If they are lying about a real incident, then they are idiots for trying to cover up something.
10 posted on 09/11/2009 7:53:24 AM PDT by KarlInOhio ("I can run wild for six months ...after that, I have no expectation of success" - Admiral Obama-moto)
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To: Dallas59

Time for a Coast Guard Czar?


11 posted on 09/11/2009 7:53:42 AM PDT by Dallas59
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To: tgusa

Coinciences, coincidences!!!!!


12 posted on 09/11/2009 7:54:01 AM PDT by gunnyg (SUFFER NO FOOLS -Gunny G)
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To: tgusa

Absolutely correct!


13 posted on 09/11/2009 7:54:45 AM PDT by Constitution Day
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To: Dallas59

Odd.

Very odd.


14 posted on 09/11/2009 7:54:47 AM PDT by BenLurkin
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To: Constitution Day

>>My BS-meter is going off the dial on this.<<

It is like out of a movie. Would reasonable human beings really do such a training exercise at this time? Preposterous.

And the lameness of the excuse is, seriously, quite concerning regarding what is really happening.


15 posted on 09/11/2009 7:55:20 AM PDT by RobRoy (The US today: Revelation 18:4)
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To: incredulous joe
Panic in New York
16 posted on 09/11/2009 7:55:24 AM PDT by Dallas59
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To: Dallas59
You’da thought they learned from the AF1/NY flyover.....or maybe they did........
17 posted on 09/11/2009 7:55:24 AM PDT by rightwingextremist1776
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To: Constitution Day

I do, too. Wouldn’t surprise me at all if this was staged.


18 posted on 09/11/2009 7:56:06 AM PDT by RushIsMyTeddyBear (During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act. ~ George Orwell)
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To: Constitution Day
My BS-meter is going off the dial on this.

Mine would be pegged too ... if it hadn't been totally blown up during FUBO's speech in front of Congress the other night

19 posted on 09/11/2009 7:56:12 AM PDT by clamper1797 (If Obama were a paid Soviet agent he could not do more damage ... Sen Thomas Jordan)
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To: rightwingextremist1776

Are they trying to make Bammy look bad?


20 posted on 09/11/2009 7:56:32 AM PDT by Dallas59
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To: tgusa

The Coast Guard now regularly patrols the Potomac with weapons. They use boats with machine gun mounts but normally keep the machine guns out of view.


21 posted on 09/11/2009 7:57:06 AM PDT by Reeses
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To: clamper1797

Oh LMAO! Good one.

See, I didn’t watch the whole thing. I couldn’t stomach it, actually. So I guess my BS-meter is still intact. :)


22 posted on 09/11/2009 7:57:20 AM PDT by Constitution Day
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To: clamper1797

Lol..


23 posted on 09/11/2009 7:57:52 AM PDT by Dallas59
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To: ThisLittleLightofMine
Makes you wonder if they are lying.

It does? Call me stupid but I'd be shocked if I ever wondered if they were telling the truth. Baraq O Bamah is the father of lies. His administration is capable of nothing more.

MO

24 posted on 09/11/2009 7:59:06 AM PDT by The Anti-One (So likewise ye, when ye shall see all these things, know that it is near, even at the doors.)
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To: Dallas59

his si one of the stupidest things I ever heard of. Not quite sure I believe this story.


25 posted on 09/11/2009 8:00:05 AM PDT by pgkdan ( I miss Ronald Reagan!)
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To: Dallas59

This is one of the stupidest things I ever heard of. Not quite sure I believe this story.


26 posted on 09/11/2009 8:00:21 AM PDT by pgkdan ( I miss Ronald Reagan!)
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To: The Anti-One

I have never encountered such pathological liar, so forgive me I still expect someone to tell the truth, especially those in authority....silly me.


27 posted on 09/11/2009 8:00:21 AM PDT by ThisLittleLightofMine
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To: RobRoy
>>My BS-meter is going off the dial on this.<<

"Coast Guard was conducting a training exercise in the Potomac River moments before President Obama and his motorcade crossed a nearby bridge."

YEAH MINE IS TOO! If you believe that the Coast guard was conducting an "Exercise" on 9/11 nearby the President - I HAVE A BRIDGE IN BROOKLYN FOR SALE.

28 posted on 09/11/2009 8:00:26 AM PDT by sr4402
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To: RobRoy

Well, “reasonable human beings” (presumably reasonable, anyway) scheduled an unnannounced Air Force One flyover of lower Manhattan, too.

Nothing these charlatans do surprises me anymore.


29 posted on 09/11/2009 8:00:42 AM PDT by Constitution Day
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To: Dallas59

Interesting idea that, creating a scare.


30 posted on 09/11/2009 8:00:58 AM PDT by combat_boots (The Lion of Judah cometh. Hallelujah. Gloria Patri, Filio et Spirito Sancto.)
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To: Dallas59

It should be easy to verify. This isn’t exactly an isolated location. Someone saw what happened after the rounds were fired. If the boat that was fired on later heaved to alongside the patrol boat, and everyone seemed relaxed, then it was an exercise. If otherwise, then the truth needs to be revealed. Either way, someone has some explaining to do.


31 posted on 09/11/2009 8:01:24 AM PDT by Little Pig (Vi Veri Veniversum Vivus Vici.)
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To: Reeses

As well they should; good on them. Poor day for an exercise, though.


32 posted on 09/11/2009 8:01:33 AM PDT by tgusa (Gun control: deep breath, sight alignment, squeeze the trigger ....)
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To: Dallas59

He does that all to well all by his self....


33 posted on 09/11/2009 8:04:25 AM PDT by rightwingextremist1776
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To: Dallas59

Maybe a warning shot across the bow of SS nobamy.


34 posted on 09/11/2009 8:06:47 AM PDT by dusttoyou (libs are all wee wee'd up and no place to go)
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To: Dallas59

phunny!

life on the democrat plantation.


35 posted on 09/11/2009 8:07:22 AM PDT by ken21 (i am not voting for a rino-progressive.)
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To: Constitution Day

I just heard that this was a false report and no shots were fired.


36 posted on 09/11/2009 8:11:08 AM PDT by RobRoy (The US today: Revelation 18:4)
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To: dusttoyou

37 posted on 09/11/2009 8:11:22 AM PDT by Dallas59
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To: Dallas59

Obama orchestrating a crises to use as a bogus reason to declare Martial Law.


38 posted on 09/11/2009 8:11:59 AM PDT by American Constitutionalist
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To: RobRoy

Yeah, I’ve read that now too. I wonder what the REAL story is here. I bet people are covering their butts left and right!


39 posted on 09/11/2009 8:12:31 AM PDT by Constitution Day
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To: Constitution Day

Mine too.


40 posted on 09/11/2009 8:14:24 AM PDT by Huck ("He that lives on hope will die fasting"- Ben Franklin, Poor Richard's Almanac)
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To: Dallas59
If this was a training exercise,
there was a failure to communicate
on the part of the Secret Service.

The USCG should have been protecting the POTUS, not training.

Bambi's G'mint seems to be totally out of control.

Or it was a Rahm Emanuel crisis to prohibit the 912 gathering.


41 posted on 09/11/2009 8:14:36 AM PDT by Uri’el-2012 (Psalm 119:174 I long for Your salvation, YHvH, Your law is my delight.)
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To: Huck

Apparently USCG is having a press conference on this soon. I wonder how they’ll spin it.


42 posted on 09/11/2009 8:15:07 AM PDT by Constitution Day
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To: Constitution Day
Yeah, I’ve read that now too. I wonder what the REAL story is here. I bet people are covering their butts left and right!

If some terrorist did get close enough to The One to give him a scare the LAST thing 0bama would do is let word get out about it. The patriots in this country would never let up on his dismantling of our CIA and other security apparatus not to mention shoving his whole "the war on terror doesn't exist" mantra back in his lying face.

43 posted on 09/11/2009 8:17:43 AM PDT by paulycy (Screw the RACErs.)
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To: Constitution Day

Bullshit. The moderator can pull this. I don’t care. Bullshit.


44 posted on 09/11/2009 8:19:03 AM PDT by goodwithagun (My gun has killed fewer people than Ted Kennedy's car.)
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To: goodwithagun

I agree with you 100%. Something stinks like hell!


45 posted on 09/11/2009 8:19:49 AM PDT by Constitution Day
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To: Constitution Day

Yeah, and I’m scared as hell. This needs to be investigated. If there was a real threat and obama is covering it up, I will start petitioning for impeachment.


46 posted on 09/11/2009 8:22:31 AM PDT by goodwithagun (My gun has killed fewer people than Ted Kennedy's car.)
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To: sr4402
CONFIRMED EXERCISE BOGUS! http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2009/09/11/coast_guard_to_suspicious_boat_slow_down_or_you_will_be_fired_upon.html

"Slow Down or You Will Be FIRED UPON" heard in this video.

47 posted on 09/11/2009 8:26:36 AM PDT by sr4402
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To: ThisLittleLightofMine

He must lie like this to his wife and kids too. How could he not?


48 posted on 09/11/2009 8:27:13 AM PDT by onedoug
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To: ThisLittleLightofMine
if not lying then very poor judgment to schedule such on 9/11!!!
49 posted on 09/11/2009 8:49:45 AM PDT by elpadre (AfganistaMr Obama said the goal was to "disrupt, dismantle and defeat al-Qaeda" and its allies.)
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To: Dallas59

Um-this isn’t the day to do such exercises I would think...


50 posted on 09/11/2009 8:57:25 AM PDT by Califreak (If it's Astroturf, why are you trying to mow it?(sign seen at a town hall meeting))
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