US says Iranian gunboats harassed warships (Weapons locked and loaded)

MSNBC ^ | January 7th, 2008 | Jim Miklaszewski

[tlb]

WASHINGTON - Iranian Revolutionary Guard gunboats harassed three U.S. Navy warships in the Strait of Hormuz Sunday, in what the U.S. military considers a "significant provocative act."

Military officials told NBC News that two US Navy destroyers and one frigate were heading into the Persian Gulf through the international waters of the Strait of Hormuz when five armed "fast boats" of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard approached a high speed, darting in and out of the formation.

[tlb]

Testing Bush

[Edgerunner]

In the pursuit of martyrdom...

[Blue Highway]

The muzzies never learn. And what are they doing on water, I thought they lived on sand.

[Greg F]

Sink their ships.

[roses of sharon]

Oh no! I sure wish Oprah’s Kid was President!

[Blue Highway]

You mean Oprah’s love baby from Steadman.

[PGalt]

Very interesting. Thanks for posting.

[Scotsman will be Free]

First they pull that crap with the Brits, now they are messing around with us. It is past time for some smoking holes in the water.

[pnh102]

At one point a radio message from one of the Iranian boats warned, "You are going to blow up within minutes."

Now can we spank these punks?

[AU72]

Iran is just practicing the audacity of hope.

[Oberon]

A little target practice would never hurt anyone.

I know the Quad .50 is pretty old-school by now, but still... I bet one could disassemble an Iranian "fast boat" in short order.

[reagan_fanatic]

Those boats should have been reefs by now.

[theDentist]

U.S. military warships believe the Revolutionary Guard boats were "testing our defenses,"

Like the terrorists did with the USS Cole?

[mountainlyons]

Iran was successful with wimp presidents like Carter. They think we will fall apart if we tangle with Iran because they think they are Superior thinks to liberals and pansies.

[mad_as_he$$]

I would rather they turned the one of the very powerful Aegis radars on them. it would kill the engines and cause the Muzzies to flash cook.

[SlowBoat407]

The floating imams?

They’re just itching for something that they can claim as an “unprovoked” attack. Next time they’ll get closer, and the first time our guys get nervous enough to send them to Mohammed Jones’ locker, they’ll scream and kick that our Navy is trigger happy and needs to leave the region.

Do our guys have enough precision to target their engines? I say disable them, and then “rescue” them and hold them over for extensive medical observation, since the entire experience will be traumatic for the poor dears.

[lexington minuteman 1775]

Intresting that Imawhackjob would push a confrontation during the primaries. My guess is this will continue. I have not heard about what is going on “internally” in Iran and how much pressure is on the Mullah led government. I keep hoping that some sort of internal revolution of the people develops. We can hope this happens.

[Dixie Yooper]

Blow them out of the water and say it was an accident, or say it wasn’t an accident, or don’t say anything. Sometimes instead of just carrying the BIG STICK, we need to swing it so everyone knows it still works.