HOW COULD THIS BE!!!//?
Posted on 04/20/2015 11:18:33 AM PDT by MeshugeMikey
it’s only “fair...”
a “free range”...red line
NOBODY fires on the US Navy at sea.
Nobody.
It's just not possible to get 100-500 men to commit suicide at the same time.
this sure could do just that!
The Pentagon is sending a U.S. aircraft carrier to waters around Yemen, following Iran's deployment of seven to nine ships, some carrying weapons.
The U.S. is sending the USS Theodore Roosevelt and at least one destroyer to the Gulf of Aden, said Pentagon spokesman Army Col. Steve Warren.
The Pentagon also said reports that the carrier will intercept Iranian ships carrying weapons is not true.
"Certainly it's going there because of Yemeni instability, but it's not going there to intercept any ships," said Warren.
SNIP
Who knows what anti-ship weapons the Iranians have.
This should not be taken lightly.
I bet they are.
OK, then, just going there to see what’s going on, direct traffic maybe?
WITH THE BUNCH IN WASHINGTON...ANYTHING ......could happen
to quote another freeper’s take on the matter:
“USS inflatable duck”
I wonder what an aircraft carrier might be carrying.
The aircraft carrier USS Theodore Roosevelt left the Persian Gulf on Sunday and is headed toward Yemen, where there are already three U.S. amphibious ships and two destroyers, CBS News national security correspondent David Martin reports.
The Roosevelt was sent in response to a convoy of seven to nine Iranian ships which appear bound for Yemen and which could be carrying arms.
SNIP
There are about nine U.S. ships in the region, including cruisers and destroyers carrying teams that can board and search other vessels.
SNIP
Reminds me of Gulf War 1 which I was watching closely since my son was there with the 82nd. Just before the land war started, the military was giving a press conference and some press idiot asked. “Can you tell us which Kuwaiti beach you are going to land on?” He was not given an answer to that. Actually we did an end run with the Abrams and Sheridan tanks, and the British Centurions. I have some photos of hundreds of Iraqui soldiers lying in the sand with their hands over their heads in surrender. I think in some cases, our troops just drove on by to where there was real action.
Could this be . . . . wag the duck?
Confusing that the on-the-record statement is being contradicted with off-the-record reports.
“CinC says to shadow them but take no action to stop them.”
“Aye Aye Sir”
If they’re playing it cagey it’s not working.
THERES AN ASPIRIN FACTORY SOMEWHERE ...WAITING for our arrival!!
Agreed...
We know the Iranians have been testing against a large mockup.
Makes you wonder what they were testing.
Could China have armed them with something interesting?
Who really knows?
All I know is that I don’t want to hear from some government asshole, “We didn’t know...”
If I’m thinking it, our top level people should be.
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