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Thousands Of US Troops Arrive Near Syrian Shore On USS Eisenhower
Russia Today ^ | December 6, 2012

Posted on 12/06/2012 5:34:30 AM PST by Strategy

The USS Eisenhower, an American aircraft carrier that holds eight fighter bomber squadrons and 8,000 men, arrived at the Syrian coast yesterday in the midst of a heavy storm, indicating US preparation for a potential ground intervention.

While the Obama administration has not announced any sort of American-led military intervention in the war-torn country, the US is now ready to launch such action "within days" if Syrian President Bashar al-Assad decides to use chemical weapons against the opposition, the Times reports.

(Excerpt) Read more at rt.com ...


TOPICS: Breaking News; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: arabspring; bho44; bhomiddleeast; cvn69; eisenhower; islam; israel; middleeast; muslimworld; shipmovement; syria; usseisenhower; ustroops
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To: Strategy

Not ONE American life should be given up for the Syrians.... NOT ONE SINGLE life!!!!!!!!!!!!


41 posted on 12/06/2012 7:06:39 AM PST by LibFreeUSA
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To: Strategy

Russian propaganda that’s paving the way for the Russians to intervene on Assad’s side?


42 posted on 12/06/2012 7:10:21 AM PST by Hawthorn
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To: 1rudeboy

The only believable articles I’ve seen in a while came from CanadaFreePress. It reminds me of Radio Free Europe back during the Cold War, broadcasting the truth into socialist occupied Amerika.


43 posted on 12/06/2012 7:11:09 AM PST by The Sons of Liberty ( What have you heard about Fast and Furious or Benghazi lately?)
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To: brivette; rstrahan

I wonder if that’s the whole CVBG. It still seems high unless there’s a MEU involved.

Of course, it could just be a made up number from a lazy reporter . . .


44 posted on 12/06/2012 7:12:51 AM PST by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)
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To: Strategy; stylecouncilor

LPDs?


45 posted on 12/06/2012 7:27:07 AM PST by onedoug
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To: baddog 219

I agree that we should stay out of it...except that I strongly suspect we (or at any rate, Obama and the gang) were behind the jihadi “rebels” in the first place. He has been toppling one country after another to the Islamists.


46 posted on 12/06/2012 7:34:16 AM PST by livius
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To: MNGal
The recent reports in the news about chemical weapons in Assad’s control are merely laying the groundwork for a REBEL chemical weapons attack on the Syrian people, only to be blamed on Assad.

Many of these reports have come from rather vague sources. Mind you, I'm not saying Assad was a great guy, but he was more or less under control and while he ran a police state, people had more freedom under it than they will have under the Islamist police state that replaces it. The Egyptians are just realizing this...

47 posted on 12/06/2012 7:36:42 AM PST by livius
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To: Strategy; BIGLOOK; ASA Vet

This link below takes us to the USN official Ike link.

The Ike carries a compliment of 6,287 sailors including the air jocks and their crew.

There would probably be at least an additional few dozen civilians on board monitoring their products/services in use and helping to maintain them.

A similiar amount of tad naval personnel monitoring and learning.

For the Clancy fans/writers, there will be a half dozen Guys from the farm and that many from No Such Agency.

http://www.public.navy.mil/airfor/cvn69/Pages/FactsStats.aspx

Miscellaneous

Builder - Newport News Shipbuilding, Newport News, VA
Keel laid - Aug. 15, 1970
Launched - Oct. 11, 1975
Planned crew sized - 6,287 (includes Air Wing)
Number of anchors - 2
Weight of anchors - 60,000 lbs each
Anchor chain - 1,082 feet on each anchor (365 lbs per link)
Total anchor weight - 735,000 lbs each (includes chain)
Distillation plant capacity - 400,000 gallons
Number of light fixtures - approximately 29,000


48 posted on 12/06/2012 7:39:39 AM PST by Grampa Dave (Tagline space for rent to pay for some of my extra taxes the next 4 years!)
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To: Strategy

It would be just like Obamugabe to put a huge number of our brave fighting men in harm’s way. After he gets them killed, he will have them replaced with his AmeriCorps thugs.


49 posted on 12/06/2012 7:46:19 AM PST by Bigg Red (Sorry, Mr. Franklin, I guess we couldn't keep it.)
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To: livius

“Mind you, I’m not saying Assad was a great guy, but he was more or less under control and while he ran a police state, people had more freedom under it than they will have under the Islamist police state that replaces it. The Egyptians are just realizing this...”

I agree. I wonder if it’s truly the “people of Syria” who are trying to oust Assad, or outside factions such as the Muslim Brotherhood and Al Quaeda?


50 posted on 12/06/2012 7:48:12 AM PST by MNGal
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To: livius

http://www.canadafreepress.com/index.php/article/51400

Read down to the part about chem weapons, and Syria. This is from a way back.


51 posted on 12/06/2012 8:15:40 AM PST by AnonymousConservative (Why did Liberals evolve within our species? www.anonymousconservative.com)
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To: MNGal

Probably outside factions such as Obama.


52 posted on 12/06/2012 8:22:53 AM PST by livius
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To: AnonymousConservative

That article was full of interesting information that I hadn’t seen before.


53 posted on 12/06/2012 8:27:52 AM PST by livius
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To: livius

“Probably outside factions such as Obama.”

Ok. The Muslim Brotherhood, then.


54 posted on 12/06/2012 8:42:03 AM PST by MNGal
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To: Strategy

So now we’re going to do the same thing that we did with Egypt and Libya, replace a monster with another monster. And it’s going to be done to the tune of several hundred billion dollars of borrowed Chinese money...

And when it’s all over, the surplus weapons we provided will be used against us. Rinse, wash, repeat.


55 posted on 12/06/2012 8:49:12 AM PST by Amish with an attitude
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To: Strategy; Fred Nerks; Beckwith; LucyT; TigersEye; little jeremiah; Brown Deer; MestaMachine; ...

Sarin Gas. Maybe Obama will at last, chose whether he is a genuine American or not.

I have my doubts as most of you know.

I expect POSHITUS Obama to stand by and watch as severl hundred thousand human beings are exterminated in Damascus, while here at home he leads US over the fiscal cliff to weaken our military.

A genuine president would have acted already to interdict and destroy all known WMD in Syria ( originally located in Iraq under Sadam Hussein and trucked to Syria by the Soviets so that the left in America could perpetrate the myth that Sadam had no WMD.)

The IDF and Mossad already know where each of the WMD caches are and have told Obama.Yet Obama does nothing and will do nothing?


56 posted on 12/06/2012 8:55:33 AM PST by Candor7 (Obama fascism article:(http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/05/barack_obama_the_quintessentia_1.html))
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To: LibFreeUSA

Isn’t Assad Pelosi’s bosum buddie? Why isn’t she over there, overseeing a peaceful solution?


57 posted on 12/06/2012 9:14:25 AM PST by jayrunner
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To: Strategy

Das Fuhrer is securing his false legacy, and fortifying the distraction of a failed presidency and WH administration. Suggest that black ops put his @$$ on the carrier, and deliver him to the Syrians.


58 posted on 12/06/2012 9:22:22 AM PST by fivecatsandadog (Reality ruins everything.)
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To: Salgak

Ditto


59 posted on 12/06/2012 9:23:43 AM PST by fivecatsandadog (Reality ruins everything.)
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To: baddog 219

“..I say let’s stay out of this and let them kill eachother. If we enter this with forces, it will bite us in the as$ like always....”

Sure will.

The sandfleas would suddenly have a COMMON enemy...


60 posted on 12/06/2012 9:31:07 AM PST by NFHale (The Second Amendment - By Any Means Necessary.)
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