US sends 3 warships to Mediterranean as tensions mount

Jerusalem Post/AP ^ | 1/29/2008 | unattributed

[mojito]

Lebanon is about to ignite. Maybe Rice will do more than utter the usual platitudes. I'm not holding my breath. At least the Navy is paying attention. The President is waving a pretty big stick.

[TSgt]

Another military officer, speaking on condition of anonymity...

WTF???

What ever happened to loose lips sinks ships?

[ASA Vet]

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1978019/posts

[ASA Vet]

What ever happened to loose lips sinks ships?

They stopped hanging traitors.

[Bitsy]

What ever happened to loose lips sinks ships?
They stopped hanging traitors.

Well, then, we should bring back the tradition. But, sadly, no has the &alls.

[RightWhale]

Very popular multi-thread kind of thing to do.

[SFC Chromey]

Would it kill you to start a new paragraph?

[Orange1998]

He is a newby of 18 days and spewing Democrat talk.

[SFC Chromey]

So I guess it would kill him to use proper Engrish.

[Rick.Donaldson]

Welcome to FreeRepublic...
LOL

blackelkspeaks
Since Feb 10, 2008

[Diogenesis]

[golfisnr1]

Go back to DU where you belong.

[AngelesCrestHighway]

HELLO Syria!....What was that you were saying?

[Rick.Donaldson]

Why? Because I am totally disgusted with the way in which the Republicans and Democrats both view this sort of activity as a matter of course, not to be questioned. Why do we, as a nation, find it necessary to patrol the entire planet just so we can neverendingly insert ourselves into the affairs of every country on earth!

Funny... we should probably bring all of our troops home, close the borders, not trade with ANYONE, and while we're at it get rid of the damned Shadow government that is causing all of this.

What would we do if Lebanon and Syria DO have a war? Invade these countries, too? To what end?

Well, it's not about invading, it is about "FAIR ELECTIONS". Keeping things "democratic" ought to be right up your alley.

How much blood of American servicemen will we, as Americans, allow this mis-begotten adventurism to spill before we say STOP! Remember the deaths suffered in Korea, Vietnam, the first Iraqi war, and the myriad of little wars perpetually fought in between because of the Cold War?

Methinks you are yelling too much. If you BOTHER to check the records, LESS deaths have occurred in this war in Iraq each year, than NON-WAR YEARS with BILL CLINTON, when there wasn't EVEN A WAR!!!!!!!!! Check your facts before you WHINE.

Then consider the new War On Terror, which McCain is calling a “hundred years war”. But, after seven years of taking casualities fighting the Moslems in a half-assed manner, what with our Afghanistan and Iraqi screw-ups, then most recently giving the Palestinian and Albanian Moslem killers a free pass, we now decide to insert ourselves into yet another dustup before we have even saw fit to extricate ourselves from over sixty years in Germany and Japan, or fifty years in Korea

Cool, you're absolutely right. Let's drop nuclear weapons on those bastards instead of sending men and women in there to die. We can obliterate the regions, and then we won't have to fight any more.

This is, truly, a madness that the founders of this country never imagined would be the destiny of the United States.

No? What do you imagine the, they imagined? Which part of what you're spouting is "madness"? Your OWN post is a bit "mad" if you ask me. Its hard to believe that Bush actually made some noises when he ran for his first term advocating getting us out of foreign entanglements. Boy, how the worm has turned! There is NO WAY I will EVER vote for the Republicans of today.

Again, funny. Bush isn't running for office now. Hillary clinton, Barrak Hussein Obmana and John McCain are. Oh, and so is Ron Paul.

Please, give our regards to Ron would ya?

[Westbrook]

Why don’t we send Nancy Pelosi and friends back to Syria?

She could wear the hajib again and say nice things to Syrian tyrant Assad.

[An Old Marine]

Well we are just a bit worked up ain't we?

And how about the thousands of Americans in those countries? If the crap hits the fan its our job to get them out. Thats why the Marines. Despite the nonsense in the article the Nassau and her sisters carry a battalion of Marines not thousands. Its enough to protect Americans and get them out and home but not nearly enough to occupy Lenanon - unless they are going to let us take the gloves off...

Further there is almost always a Marine battalion afloat in the Med and there has been for almost 50 years. Now stop behaving like a demoocrat. Not everything has something to do with Presidential politics.

[brushcop]

Please feel free to join any of the Armed Services of our country and show them how it’s done. Or maybe run for office. Thank you.

[Las Vegas Ron]

"I have never voted for a Democrat in my entire life".

Riiiiggggghhhhhttttt