USS Nimitz Forced Iran's Decision

Newsmax.com ^ | 4/4/07 | Kenneth R. Timmerman

[Bulldawg Fan]

Interesting take. No doubt, three carrier battle groups would get the attention of most any tyrant.

Now once these guys/gal are released, the Brits can deal with the statements made by their personnel while in captivity.

[bmwcyle]

It’s a big target but it is a great target, STS2 SS.

[Condor 63]

At one point during the current hostage crisis, the British team was split up into five groups of three, with each group kept at a different military base. The Iranians would then bring several groups together and film them, to give the impression they were being held together.

I'll bet each one of those trips were extra special fun for the hostages, not knowing if a Religion of Peace® brand rusty saw was waiting for them at the end of it.

[Dog]

Something just went down we don’t know about....Iran it seems blinked.....why?

[TruthShallSetYouFree]

At one point during the current hostage crisis, the British team was split up into five groups of three, with each group kept at a different military base. The Iranians would then bring several groups together and film them, to give the impression they were being held together.

They could have just kept them separate and hired Michael Moore to do a little inventive cinematography to make it seem like they were all together.

[bioqubit]

Like I said earlier, though it took a little longer than I expected, it takes time to put together a really good drop dead ultimatum. Iran acted more like an errant brat that had to be spoken to several times before he got the real message: Let them go, or you will lose more than a few privleges.

Meantime, in no way does our covert pressure lighten up. If anything, Iran’s desparate act will only embolden us to lean on them even harder.

[GSlob]

It’s a task for the boomers, not for carrier groups. And one doesn’t even need to keep one in vicinity.

[Pukin Dog]

Complete and utter nonsense. This did NOT happen.

[Dog]

This was to sudden for that regime....way to sudden. These are thugs...who don’t listen to reason....so what was explained to them in a back channel that got this result.

[Dog]

What didn’t happen PD?

[popdonnelly]

Another take on the internal debate in the Iranian regime, from Debka: http://www.debka.com/headline.php?hid=4010

Note the assertion that Ahmadinejad was itching for a limited conflict he thought he could win.

[TexasKate]

There’s nothing in the article that supports the headline is there?

[RC2]

I agree that the sand dog wanted a conflict but I think it would be more than he would have expected. His bosses probably shut the dog down. The Nimitz was on its way over there anyway and the Eisenhower was going to come home. I found it interesting though that when I was in the Navy, the carriers only had four destroyers with them. Now, the Nuke carriers move with up to two nuke subs under them, four destroyers and now a cruiser. Cruisers normally don’t go unless it’s a conflict situation. Maybe the sand dog understood this.

[the anti-liberal]

I noticed that too. I was just hoping someone, somewhere along the line would clarify the headline's insinuation.

Did the USS Nimitz make 'leader-of-state-who-owns-no-ties' blink, or was it simply coincidink?

[Libloather]

USS Nimitz Forced Iran's Decision

"When the Nimitz moves in, duck lower than this, you dumbass."

[Ghost of Philip Marlowe]

What has the USS Nimitz to do with anything in the article?

[DTogo]

Indeed. Iran has Hezbullah capture Israeli soldiers, prompting a mini-war that is sucessfully spun to make Israel look like the aggressor.

Iranian-trained/equipped insurgents kill US forces with impunity in Iraq, while Bush gets blamed for every death.

Iran then captures 15 British sailors without a shot fired, parades them around for 2 weeks and then sends 'em home.

Punishment? Some UN sanctions... wow, while their nuke program advances. Global War on "terror" my backside...

[Cobra64]

They could have just kept them separate and hired Michael Moore to do a little inventive cinematography to make it seem like they were all together.

This guy?

[Cobra64]

It’s a task for the boomers, not for carrier groups.

Carrier groups: show of force.

[WhiteGuy]

USS Nimitz Forced Iran’s Decision

You bet.

It’s all political.