[SandRat]

Next time Navy, Light Up those Iranian Cigarette (boats) with the PHALANX Gun Lighter.

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[familyop]

Pentagon: “Row! Roooww! Roooooooowwww!”

[Military exercises commence. Enormous amounts of fuel are used for movements.]

Pres.: “Don’t worry, they’ll row for a month before they figure out I’m fakin’ it.”

[Quotes from the film, “Waterworld” My message...? Let’s stop worrying so much about freight fuel prices and get the Iran thing done!]

[bill1952]

* Start * firing *

[ExTexasRedhead]

Too bad they didn’t call in air support to blow the Iranians to hell and back. Oops, puff, they’re gone.

[Mr Ramsbotham]

Well, now they know how close they can get without eliciting a response.

[Logical me]

The Navy screwed up royally. Suppose one of the boats were suicide and struck one of the ships. What in the hell is the matter with the Navy. At least 15 to 20 minutes should be plenty of time to blow one or more out of the water. This speaks of poor command, and the officers should be held accountable.

[richardtavor]

I would use the diplomatic approach. Tell their ambassador that the next time that they get within two thousand yards of a US ship, they will be blown out of the water. Any retaliation from Iran and we will take out the entire Iranian Navy.

[hellbender]

“Small, Iranian fast boats made some aggressive maneuvers against our vessels and indicated some hostile intent,”

Certainly the Leftmedia will be outraged by this incident of dastardly "Swiftboating!"

[Catholic Canadian]

Shouls lit the bastards up. I mean, seriously, what are the Iranians going to do if you sunk their little toy boats? Probably a whole bunch of moaning and that’s about it.

[Ronin]

FU**ABUNCHA evasuve action!

Those boats should have been destroyed! Period!

[G8 Diplomat]

It looks like they are asking for a major a$$-kicking. Let’s honor their request.

[pctech]

Looks like someone is wanting to provoke an incident. I think it’s time to grant them their wish, with attitude.

[TBall]

If there is a next time and we don’t light up I hope we don’t read about it. I don’t see any benefit to even report on this incident.

[Haddit]

Just let me know when you blow one of them to smitherines.

[CJ Wolf]

send em to Davy Jones’ Locker.

[mjaneangels@aolcom]

What bothers me about this incident is that it could start happening repeatedly with no incident, then there could be a USS Cole type incident.

This requires very careful consideration and all actions need to be on and stay on the table.