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LIVE THREAD : Navy Fires warning shot at Iranian Boat in Persian Gulf
FOX ^ | 04 11 2008 | drzz

Posted on 04/11/2008 9:54:50 AM PDT by drzz

Updates welcome. The story just showed up. Casus belli ?

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TOPICS: Breaking News; Foreign Affairs; Government; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: breaking; bush; iran; iraq; maritime; persiangulf; usn; usnavy; usstyphoon; warning; wot
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To: Josh Painter

Flare today, gone tomorrow


21 posted on 04/11/2008 10:24:53 AM PDT by bert (K.E. N.P. +12 . Never say never (there'll be a VP you'll like))
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To: jhpigott
Check this out.

It's from another duty of the Typhoon

23 posted on 04/11/2008 10:25:32 AM PDT by Loud Mime (If Muslims love death, why do they have hospitals?)
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To: Loud Mime

Oh wait, that’s the US boat! Then it has real guns, and Gilligan would be toast.


24 posted on 04/11/2008 10:25:59 AM PDT by dead (I've got my eye out for Mullah Omar.)
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To: GATOR NAVY

Looks like the genset injectors could use some work.


25 posted on 04/11/2008 10:26:45 AM PDT by Sunnyflorida (Drill in the Gulf of Mexico/Anwar & we can join OPEC!!! || Write in Thomas Sowell for President.)
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To: Sunnyflorida

I’m guessing from the crew in whites and the large ensign they are returning from an extended underway.


26 posted on 04/11/2008 10:30:28 AM PDT by GATOR NAVY (Your parents will all receive phone calls instructing them to love you less now.)
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To: Loud Mime

Thanks. Kind of tiny. I thought my Dad’s WWII DDE was small.


27 posted on 04/11/2008 10:30:35 AM PDT by Empireoftheatom48 (My tag line is broken)
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To: drzz
Casus belli ?

Nope. Too similar to the Gulf of Tonkin incident. Starting with the Hostage crises moving on to their forging of US currency their support to terrorists etc etc etc we have plenty of Casus belli, our political class has always lacked the will to act on them.

28 posted on 04/11/2008 10:32:23 AM PDT by MNJohnnie (http://www.iraqvetsforcongress.com ---- Get involved, make a difference.)
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To: dead

Its got 2 25mm chain guns. Will destroy anything that floats that is not armored.


29 posted on 04/11/2008 10:32:33 AM PDT by Sunnyflorida (Drill in the Gulf of Mexico/Anwar & we can join OPEC!!! || Write in Thomas Sowell for President.)
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To: GATOR NAVY

“I’m guessing from the crew in whites and the large ensign they are returning from an extended underway.”

Wonder what they use for aux power. I really miss the detroit x71 motors.


30 posted on 04/11/2008 10:35:00 AM PDT by Sunnyflorida (Drill in the Gulf of Mexico/Anwar & we can join OPEC!!! || Write in Thomas Sowell for President.)
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To: Sunnyflorida

THE LEADING MODERATOR OF FR JUST KILLED NEWS FROM JPOST SAYING THAT AN UPCOMING REPORT WAS ABOUT TO BE PUBLISHED STATING THAT SADDAM WMDS HAD BEEN MOVED TO SYRIA.

AS FREEREPUBLIC DOESN’T WANT TO SPREAD THE STORY (?!), PLEASE GO TO LITTLE GREEN FOOTBALLS WHERE THE STORY HAS BEEN SHOWN :

http://littlegreenfootballs.com/weblog/?entry=29584_JPost-_US-Israeli_Report_Shows_Saddam_Transferred_WMDs_to_Syria&only


31 posted on 04/11/2008 10:36:47 AM PDT by drzz
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To: Sunnyflorida

It will be a truely sad day when they finally take a shot and we lose 1 single life or damage a ship. If its a matter of not wanting to show our capabilities we should fly something in and destroy them. Letting them again and again, act provacatively within 200 yards is just insane.


32 posted on 04/11/2008 10:39:14 AM PDT by samadams2000 (Someone important make......The Call!)
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How long before the phrase “Gulf of Tonken” comes up?


33 posted on 04/11/2008 10:41:21 AM PDT by Crimson Elephant
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To: Crimson Elephant

An upcoming joint US-Israel report on the September 6 IAF strike on a Syrian facility will claim that former Iraqi president Saddam Hussein transferred weapons of mass destruction to the country, Channel 2 stated Monday.

http://littlegreenfootballs.com/weblog/?entry=29584_JPost-_US-Israeli_Report_Shows_Saddam_Transferred_WMDs_to_Syria&only


34 posted on 04/11/2008 10:42:06 AM PDT by drzz
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To: Sunnyflorida

Couldn’t tell you. I went aboard one once but being a QM I was most interested in the pilothouse.


35 posted on 04/11/2008 10:47:39 AM PDT by GATOR NAVY (Your parents will all receive phone calls instructing them to love you less now.)
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To: SE Mom
And this is about Iran ....Really...:

Petraeus Takes the Hill

36 posted on 04/11/2008 10:51:42 AM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach (No Burkas for my Grandaughters!)
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To: drzz

The Iranian Revolutionary Guards trying to do the same thing to the USN that it did to Her Majesty’s Royal Navy.


37 posted on 04/11/2008 10:56:42 AM PDT by Virginia Ridgerunner ("We must not forget that there is a war on and our troops are in the thick of it!"--Duncan Hunter)
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To: drzz

Whut?


38 posted on 04/11/2008 10:59:04 AM PDT by Virginia Ridgerunner ("We must not forget that there is a war on and our troops are in the thick of it!"--Duncan Hunter)
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To: drzz
THE LEADING MODERATOR OF FR JUST KILLED NEWS FROM JPOST SAYING THAT AN UPCOMING REPORT WAS ABOUT TO BE PUBLISHED STATING THAT SADDAM WMDS HAD BEEN MOVED TO SYRIA.

AS FREEREPUBLIC DOESN’T WANT TO SPREAD THE STORY (?!),

Stop spamming threads with this. FR carried the story last Monday (4/7):

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1998093/posts

39 posted on 04/11/2008 11:08:16 AM PDT by Steve0113 (Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power. -A.L.)
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To: drzz

Sounds like a good time to invest in glass bottom boats as Iran will need plenty after this so they can see their navy.


40 posted on 04/11/2008 11:09:09 AM PDT by Hillarys Gate Cult (The man who said "there's no such thing as a stupid question" has never talked to Helen Thomas.)
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