Posted on 12/28/2011 12:49:08 PM PST by Ernest_at_the_Beach
Reuters
Iranian Navy Commander Habibulah Sayari points to a map during a Dec. 22 news conference in Tehran.
Iran is once again making lots of noise about shutting the Strait of Hormuz, the gateway to the Persian Gulf that carries about a third of the world’s oil-tanker traffic.
Iran’s vice president claims the Iranians might have to clear shipping from the channel while they conduct a 10-day naval exercise there, a little flexing of military muscle to make the West think twice about slapping an oil embargo on Iran for refusing to unplug its nuclear program.
The U.S. Fifth Fleet, which uses the same waterway to get to and from its base in Bahrain, says it simply won’t tolerate Iran’s closure of the Hormuz Strait. Period.
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Iran best be careful or they will get a very, very, very stern letter from our Dear Leader.
He is pretty busy golfing I hear.
Yup....it get him away from his wife.
I am thinking, here. The only bluff Obama EVER called was our own—the dumbed down American voter.
If Washington had any cajones (which everybody knows they don’t), a message would be sent to the ragheads that any such action would be met with immediate, total, all-out, white hot war. Period. Turn their country (and I use the term loosely) into ashes and glass.
I hope Obama knows what he is doing. It can’t be like his Drone moment. Can I have my Drone back. Pretty Please!
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