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Iranian boats provoked 3 U.S. Navy warships in the Strait of Hormuz [scroll]
CNN ^ | Jan 07, 2008

Posted on 01/07/2008 6:01:09 AM PST by PurpleMan

Breaking News

U.S. officials: 5 Iranian Revolutionary Guard boats harassed, provoked 3 U.S. Navy warships in the Strait of Hormuz on Saturday.

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


TOPICS: Breaking News; News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: 5thfleet; hormuz; middleeast; navair; navy; revolutionaryguard; usshopper; ussingraham; ussportroyal
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CNN (Barbara Starr) just reported.

DEVELOPING...

Whiskey-Tango-Foxtrot?

Is blowing them out of the water an option?

1 posted on 01/07/2008 6:01:10 AM PST by PurpleMan
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To: PurpleMan

The U.S. isn’t going to allow what the UK did now that what know what they are gonna try.


2 posted on 01/07/2008 6:02:21 AM PST by ikez78 (http://www.regimeofterror.com)
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To: PurpleMan
A modern-day Gulf of Tonkin?
3 posted on 01/07/2008 6:02:22 AM PST by Hemingway's Ghost (Spirit of '75)
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To: PurpleMan

Blowing them out of the water was an option. They were given permission. The Iranians wanted us to shoot. We should have accommodated them.


4 posted on 01/07/2008 6:03:02 AM PST by Migraine (...diversity is great... until it happens to YOU...)
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To: PurpleMan

Radio threat: “We are coming at you. You will explode in a couple of minutes.”


5 posted on 01/07/2008 6:03:38 AM PST by ErnBatavia (...forward this to your 10 very best friends....)
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To: PurpleMan

Why are the Iranian boats still floating?


6 posted on 01/07/2008 6:03:51 AM PST by reagan_fanatic (Ron Paul put the cuckoo in my Cocoa Puffs)
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To: Hemingway's Ghost

The Gulf of Tonkin incident was fabricated LBJ


7 posted on 01/07/2008 6:03:51 AM PST by PurpleMan
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To: Hemingway's Ghost

GOT was a fake. This is for real......


8 posted on 01/07/2008 6:04:08 AM PST by Red Badger ( We don't have science, but we do have consensus.......)
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To: PurpleMan
Probing for reaction or maybe they wanted to drop off some cavier for the President in honor of his visit to the region.

I think summer will come eary to the Middle East.

9 posted on 01/07/2008 6:04:26 AM PST by AU72
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Hmmm... what sort of harassment I wonder? What did they do?


10 posted on 01/07/2008 6:04:34 AM PST by Ramius (Personally, I give us... one chance in three. More tea?)
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To: PurpleMan

” Go away or we will taunt you a second time! “


11 posted on 01/07/2008 6:05:06 AM PST by Slapshot68
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Sorry, but why is the Iranian navy not short five gunboats right about now? Is it because the ROE wouldn’t let our guys fire until fired upon? Yeah, that’s standard, but this is Iran and they need to know they can’t get away with this crap.


12 posted on 01/07/2008 6:05:43 AM PST by OCCASparky (Steely-Eyed Killer of the Deep)
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To: reagan_fanatic

Why are the Iranian boats still floating?........Because SHIITE floats......


13 posted on 01/07/2008 6:06:02 AM PST by Red Badger ( We don't have science, but we do have consensus.......)
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To: PurpleMan

Will we go quietly in the face of the gunboats? A sunken gunboat or two would send a nice message.


14 posted on 01/07/2008 6:06:04 AM PST by Goreknowshowtocheat
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To: PurpleMan

Weapons Red and Free on those gomers!!!

Boston Whalers against real warships...

Either incredibly brave, or incredibly stupid...


15 posted on 01/07/2008 6:06:05 AM PST by stevie_d_64 (Houston Area Texans (I've always been hated))
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To: PurpleMan

President Obama... What are your orders, sir? Invade Pakistan? Yes sir.


16 posted on 01/07/2008 6:06:47 AM PST by rhombus
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To: Ramius

They mooned us...


17 posted on 01/07/2008 6:06:56 AM PST by stevie_d_64 (Houston Area Texans (I've always been hated))
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To: PurpleMan

Let’s do this!


18 posted on 01/07/2008 6:07:00 AM PST by neodad (USS Vincennes (CG 49) "Checkmate Cruiser")
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To: Slapshot68

I hope we responded by farting in their general direction!


19 posted on 01/07/2008 6:07:24 AM PST by stevie_d_64 (Houston Area Texans (I've always been hated))
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To: PurpleMan

U.S. officials: 5 Iranian Revolutionary Guard boats harassed, provoked 3 U.S. Navy warships in the Strait of Hormuz on Saturday.

And were summarily dispatched, sunk, deep-sixed, screwed...


20 posted on 01/07/2008 6:08:52 AM PST by stevie_d_64 (Houston Area Texans (I've always been hated))
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