Posted on 04/22/2015 4:21:54 AM PDT by lifeofgrace
The USS Theodore Roosevelt is known in the Navy as “the Big Stick.” She carries a ship’s crew of 3,200 sailors and Marines, along with an Air wing of 2,480.
And not one of them knows what the hell they are doing off the coast of Yemen, following an Iranian convoy of just nine ships.
That’s because the Commander-in-Chief who sent them there doesn’t know why the hell he moved a 104 thousand ton Nimitz class nuclear carrier into the Gulf of Aden near the Horn of Africa.
The Pentagon told Fox News that the ship is there to track the Iranian convoy, which is suspected of carrying weapons intended for rebel fighters in Yemen, which makes perfect sense.
But Marie Harf, Queen of Nonsense, insists that the carrier group (carriers never travel alone, by the way, they keep missile frigates, destroyers, Aegis cruisers, tenders, and a few submarines around for security) is only there to "ensure the shipping lanes remain open and safe" -- and "not to do anything in terms of those Iranian ships."
Any suggestion to the contrary is “blatantly untrue-- so this discreet movement of U.S. assets is for a discreet purpose," Harf said.
To paraphrase what Teddy Roosevelt might say: W.T.F!?
So, the U.S.—the world’s only superpower—sends one of its mightiest warships to tail nine Iranian junk freighters, which we could sink, board, or do whatever we want to, to simply sit in dangerous waters and tempt every pirate, maniac or terrorist to do something.
Nobody’s that stupid.
Obama’s new diplomacy: speak twaddle, and wave the big stick like an impotent mall security guard.
Nobody in the world seriously thinks Obama will lift a finger to stop the Iranian vessels, lest his carefully half-baked Iranian surrender soufflé fall. Moving the carrier is just another fake red line that will be crossed again and again before it fades into the sunset of America’s lost greatness.
To the sailors, Marines and brave aircrew aboard “Rough Rider,” you have my sympathy. Nothing is worse than being the biggest boy on the team, but your chicken-hearted coach won’t let you play.
Pathetic.
Easy. The terrorist in the White Mosque
is using the Pentagon (under him, “The ARmy of Hasan”)
to protect Iran ... from Israel, Egypt and Saudi Arabia.
A hard-hitting article.
This incompetence would have any Commander-in-Chief removed from office and of duty immediately. Unless, of course, the CIC is an arrogant narcissist who presides over a wet-noodle Congress.
No one knows..least of all the commander in chief.
But troop/ship movements in general shouldn’t be fodder for everyday press inquiries. Especially when Marie Harf is involved.
Wake the F___k up America.
Could the carrier is there to protect the convoy against attack by Saudi aircraft? That seems likely to me.
simple reasoning will tell you that the iranian supermidget val jarrett has the strings.
obozo is only a meatpuppet.
when is America gonna get some balls and clear this trash out.
I don't have a clue.
A white person working for an African?
What the heck does that have to do with anything? A real conservative could CARE LESS about someones skin color.
Did you read my whole post. The fact that he hates whites is why it makes no sense. I apologize if I worded it wrongly. I did not mean to offend. I have worked for and have had African Americans work for me.
The African is my term for Obama. Instead of the Kenyan or He WHo shall not be named. I’m sorry if it was misinterpreted.
Got it.
Gulf of Aden not Aiden.
So the US ships are there to keep the sea lanes open so Iran can resupply the Yemeni rebels? That sounds like the usual Obama “Aid-My-Muslim-Brothers” policy all right.
Offering a sacrifice to the Iranians? Remember the Iranians blowing up a replica US carrier a while back? What better symbol of historical American power than a carrier named after Theodore Roosevelt.
The Iran ‘deal’ and the presence of the Roosevelt are one the same purpose.. to benefit Iran! B*tch Jarrett the Iranian probably ordered it put there.
my thought exactly
[Nobody in the world seriously thinks Obama will lift a finger to stop the Iranian vessels]
Very true, in fact if one of the Iranian vessels made any threatening move of any kind, 0 would have our ships turn back just like Clinton did in Haiti when a mob on shore made him order the ship turn tail and run.
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