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Iranian Seizure of American Sailors: The Message
Canada Free Press ^ | 01/14/16 | Douglas V. Gibbs

Posted on 01/14/2016 6:09:13 PM PST by Sean_Anthony

Peace is achieved through strength, and a perception of strength. Obama has humiliated our allies, and has done all he can to show weakness to the enemy

Shortly after President Obama, and other global appeasers, struck a deal with Iran over their nuclear ambitions, and literally hours before Obama’s State of the Union Speech, ten American U.S. Navy military personnel were taken hostage by the Iranians. The sailors were held on Iran’s Farsi Island, and then released after Obama and Secretary of State John Kerry slobbered all over themselves in apologies for the Americans daring to venture into Iranian waters as a result of a mechanical failure. Vice President Biden went so far as to say that the Iranian military was simply rescuing the two U.S. Navy vessels in distress. While I watched CNN report on the story, I noticed that the not-so-fair-and-balanced cable network refused to call the detained American military personnel “hostages,” and instead said that the sailors were “arrested.” Using the word “arrested” implies that the Navy sailors were at fault, and deserved to be taken hostage. Republican U.S. Senator Tom Cotton of Arkansas, when he came on the CNN broadcast, immediately used the word “hostage.”

The Obama administration did all they could to appease, and grovel, before the Iranians over this situation, and will likely say that the subservience of America’s leaders was what led to the release of those hostages (they want to recognize and reward obedient behavior, after all). Meanwhile, while John Kerry was calling the Iranians “kind” for releasing the hostages, one wonders if the liberal left Democrats remember that it was the Iranians who supplied armor-piercing IEDs that killed hundreds of our personnel in Iraq, recently “test fired” rockets near a U.S. aircraft carrier, and that the Iranians are ignoring all of the terms they don’t like in Obama’s “nuke deal.” And notice, the words from the Iranians were not so much against Obama, as they were against the United States Congress for daring to demand a continuance and increase of economic sanctions against Iran, saying this incident “should be a lesson to the troublemakers in the U.S. Congress.”


TOPICS: Government; Military/Veterans; Politics
KEYWORDS: america; hostrages; iran; kenyanbornmuzzie; obama; obamahijab; putingaveiranthebomb; worldwarthree; wwiii

1 posted on 01/14/2016 6:09:14 PM PST by Sean_Anthony
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To: Sean_Anthony
Guess who's wearing the hijab now, 0Muslim?


2 posted on 01/14/2016 6:11:01 PM PST by kiryandil ("When Muslims in the White House are outlawed, only Barack Obama will be an outlaw")
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To: Sean_Anthony

I think it was a backhanded humiliation way of paying the “Islamic jizya” tax, it has to be paid UNDER humiliation....


3 posted on 01/14/2016 6:12:04 PM PST by GraceG (Protect the Border from Illegal Aliens, Don't Protect Illegal Alien Boarders...)
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To: kiryandil

Barry F’ing Obama is jug-eared, half-bred, drug-addled, limp-wristed, closet-homosexual, that takes it in the @ss from Michelle while simultaneously giving John F’ing Kerry a rim job.


4 posted on 01/14/2016 6:23:47 PM PST by Roger Kaputnik (Just because I'm paranoid doesn't prove that they aren't out to get me.)
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To: kiryandil

appropriate for a pussy.


5 posted on 01/14/2016 6:54:11 PM PST by Texas Fossil ((Texas is not where you were born, but a Free State of Heart, Mind & Attitude!))
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To: Sean_Anthony

Where’s Admiral Halsey now when we really need him.


6 posted on 01/14/2016 7:04:16 PM PST by reg45 (Barack 0bama: Implementing class warfare by having no class.)
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To: Sean_Anthony

Where are the two surrendered boats?


7 posted on 01/14/2016 7:07:52 PM PST by Rockpile (GOP legislators-----caviar eating surrender monkeys.)
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To: Texas Fossil

I’m afraid of what’s going to happen during the last 12 months of 0bama’s reign of terror.


8 posted on 01/14/2016 7:08:00 PM PST by wjcsux ("In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act." - George Orwell)
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To: wjcsux

Remember what the French “reign of terror” was?

But anyway, these are dark evil times. I pray daily for good leadership of the US.


9 posted on 01/14/2016 7:15:28 PM PST by Texas Fossil ((Texas is not where you were born, but a Free State of Heart, Mind & Attitude!))
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To: Rockpile

I read that they were returned.


10 posted on 01/14/2016 7:17:54 PM PST by MarMema
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To: Sean_Anthony

This whole incident raises many questions. First did BOTH boats sufferer mechanical problems simultaneously? If one boat was functional couldn’t it tow the other? We’re there no other US Navy assets available in the area that could have provided aid? I fail to believe that BOTH boats suffered failure of their navigation equipment that caused them to presumably stray into Iranian waters. What mission caused these small boats to be used in basically open ocean? A more plausible explanation might be they were attacked and overwhelmed by Iranian Naval forces and were either captured or surrendered under Obama rules of engagement. Clearly this incident was a humiliation for the US Navy and shows how weak and impotent our naval forces have become under Obama.


11 posted on 01/14/2016 7:19:58 PM PST by The Great RJ (�Socialists are happy until they run out of other people's money.� Margaret Thatcher)
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To: The Great RJ

There is something else going on here that explains the Joint Chiefs demeanor during the SOTU speech.


12 posted on 01/14/2016 7:49:12 PM PST by opbuzz (Right way, wrong way, Marine way)
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To: Sean_Anthony
It is time that the US military and especially the Navy killed a few thousand Iranian Republican Guards.
13 posted on 01/14/2016 8:06:59 PM PST by Robert357 (D.Rather "Hoist with his own petard!" www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1223916/posts)
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To: MarMema
I read that they [the boats] were returned.

What about the arsenal of weapons that were not used?

14 posted on 01/14/2016 8:14:57 PM PST by luvbach1 (We are finished. It will just take a while before everyone realizes it.)
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To: luvbach1

10 sailors, two boats. I am assuming 10 cell phones. And the GPS didn’t work for any of them? I would expect if the bag was off, someone would try it on his cell phone.


15 posted on 01/14/2016 8:35:21 PM PST by EQAndyBuzz (Jews for Cruz)
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To: Sean_Anthony

The liberal elites are serious enemies within. Americans have to tell the truth, loud and clear or we are sunk.


16 posted on 01/14/2016 10:02:24 PM PST by SaraJohnson
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To: MarMema

with their cryptogear well documented by the Iranians ...


17 posted on 01/15/2016 3:42:57 AM PST by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now it is your turn ...)
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To: EQAndyBuzz

Four things are true: 1) they knew exactly were they were 2) their navigation gear was NOT broken 3) they knew exactly where they were 4) they did not use a tow line.

As stated in other threads on this topic there is more than an even chance that Kerry called the Iranians to ask they to help as he did not want major US elements in Iranian claimed waters on the eve of his big deal. It was all about ego, and hubris.


18 posted on 01/15/2016 3:48:32 AM PST by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now it is your turn ...)
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To: opbuzz
There is something else going on here that explains the Joint Chiefs demeanor during the SOTU speech.

What was the JCS demeanor? I did not watch it. Busy doing something more important, sorting my socks.

19 posted on 01/15/2016 8:34:34 AM PST by The_Media_never_lie (The Bush family needs to just go away. The Clinton family needs just to go to prison.)
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