Posted on 06/13/2019 8:48:19 PM PDT by gandalftb
...twenty-one sailors from the M/T Kokuka Courageous who had abandoned their ship after discovering a probable unexploded limpet mine on their hull...
At 4:10 p.m. local time an IRGC (Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps) Gashti Class patrol boat approached the M/T Kokuka Courageous and was observed and recorded removing the unexploded limpet mine from the M/T Kokuka Courageous (video attached).
The United States has no interest in engaging in a new conflict in the Middle East. However, we will defend our interests.
(Excerpt) Read more at navy.mil ...
LOL.
And you do you believe Charlottesville was a staged event by Obama State Dept employees (as discovered by FReepers) or it was an organic event by alt right racists?
You act as if military false flags are simply beyond the pale...
Gulf of Tonkin, anyone? LOL
Huh?
The Deep State Globalists (i.e. they are international) put us through two years of fake Russian collusion and you have the gall to criticize any of us for questioning a videotape that no one of us can properly vet?
You have no understanding of military strategy, if you so quickly dismiss the tactic of false flags/staged events.
The Deep State Globalists (i.e. they are international) put us through two years of fake Russian collusion and you have the gall to criticize any of us for questioning a videotape that no one of us can properly vet?
You have no understanding of military strategy, if you so quickly dismiss the tactic of false flags/staged events.
Yep. No doubt all of our boys being blown up by Iranian linked IED in Iraq were a “false flag”, too.
Iran is the #1 sponsor of state terrorism in the world. They have earned every bit suspicion thrown there way. It’s hilarious to see self loathing westerners slavishly defend them. Those murdering dirtbags can do no wrong in the eyes of Democrats and their fellow travellers on the right.
“Gulf of Tonkin, anyone? LOL”
Yes, laughing boy. As Uncle Miltie pointed out upthread General Giap himself acknowledged there had been an NVA attack on August 2nd.
Some of us remember Hanoi’s fifth column constantly denouncing the United States as the evil warmonger aggressor. You remind me of them.
Word!
Who put the Shah in power? Why?
Who took the Shah out of power? Why?
Who installed the radical imams (Khomeini)? Why?
Who controls Iran? Who REALLY controls Iran?
“...just being on FR doesn’t insure one’s stability or mental sanity....”
I think you have the “Post of the Year” right there...
What did Obama “BUY” with Billions in “world currency” sent to Iran?
1980s mind-set indeed.
What a putz.
“You have no understanding of military strategy, if you so quickly dismiss the tactic of false flags/staged events.”
Unlike you, I actually have military experience with the highest clearances awarded by the US government.
Or a rogue element within Iran's power structure that wants to provoke a war? They're not exactly the most stable of governments.
Open letter to President Trump:
Act in conjunction with the Anglo Nations and Israel, Japan, Korea and Taiwan to protect US assets abroad, especially our diplomatic facilities, US citizens and corporate business interests WHICH IRAN HAS CONSTANTLY STATED THEY WOULD ATTACK IF AT WAR WITH THE USA.
It is time to deal with Iran. Sent the SF teams to our embassies and consulates to deal with Iranian pre planned attacks.
Halt US travel to nations and have US Air Carriers provide emergency return travel from nations deemed to be unsafe for US citizens immediately.
Once Iran sees we are moving US citizens out their crosshairs, and the added security to US assets abroad, they will know their ability to conduct attacks on soft targets DIMINISHES their ability to create the war they state they will wage without significant damage to their Diplomatic standing, and their liability under the GCs, international law and financially.
President Trump, once you have lessened the damage to soft targets, pound those Islamic Radical F’ers into the ground starting with all military, oil, and infrastructure to their key cities of Tehran and Qom.
Arrest all known Iranian hardliners and engage Iranian agents on foreign soil. Take down their mosques. Surround their embassies and quartinne them.
Systematically destroy all their forces outside Iran, starting with Yemen, Syria and Iraq. Lebanna and other places like Libya and in Africa as well as on the high seas interdiction of all shipping.
By isolating them and cutting them off from their terrorist assets worldwide and imposing a blockade for at least six months should be enough to prevent using an invasion. Simply destroying their military assets and capture or killing their assets abroad should allow the people to rise up and we can even straff the security forces if they engage protestors.
Carve them up like a turkey.
FSE good points. I will add another. PMC.
You never answered my direct question regarding the Iranians taking the crew of one of the attacked vessel hostage this morning. Talk about cognitive dissonance. I have much better things to do with my time than argue with idiots.
You are now immortalized on my nut job list. Congratulations. I really was thinking thoughtomater would get there first, but you lept ahead in the home stretch. Following my policy, this is my last last post to you so you get all the last words you want to cement your conspiracy theories in internet history.
Sure, because US intervention in the region has worked out so well in the past.
Possibly
Not one of our ships.
Yeah maybe. Hard to believe anything coming out of the deep state swamp.
Well who ever it was they were complete stupid idiots. You don't send a patrol boat with 10 people on board to remove unexploded ordnance unless you know exactly what you are dealing with.
From what I understand limpet mines frequently have tamper proof devices to make their removal difficult and dangerous.
If you go far enough round the bend to the left or right, the fever swamps are the same, and it usually ends up being “The Joooooossss!!!!”
Sure, it’s a neocon plot. Because Iran has never done anything like this before and they have no interest in creating a “crisis” to drive up the price of oil .... But it’s the neocons. snicker. Did the neocons put our sailors on their knees during the Obama Administration? Sorry, not buying the usual BS.
“See also German troops dressed as Polish troops invading across the Polish-German border and attacking a German radio station...”
Wait I thought the story was the Germans dressed as Poles and then marched into Poland backwards...
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