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Posted on 04/29/2008 9:49:24 PM PDT by STARWISE
US Secretary of Defense Robert Gates said Tuesday the deployment of a second aircraft carrier to the Gulf should be seen as a "reminder" of US military power in the region.
But Gates flatly denied that the United States was preparing the ground for military strikes against Iran.
"I don't think we'll have two carriers for a protracted period of time. So I don't see it as an escalation. I think it could be seen, though, as a reminder," Gates told reporters here during a visit with Mexican officials.
The arrival of the USS Abraham Lincoln in the Gulf follows a noticeable hardening in US rhetoric against Iran for meddling in Iraq and playing a destabilizing role in the region.
Commander Jeff Davis, a US Navy spokesman, said the Lincoln would overlap with the departing carrier USS Harry Truman by "no more than a day or two." He said it was a "routine regular replacement."
CBS News reported that the Pentagon has ordered new options be drawn up for attacking Iran and that the State Department has begun drafting an ultimatum that would tell Iran to stop meddling or else.
But when asked here whether the Pentagon was preparing for military strikes against Iran, Gates said flatly, "No."
The stepped-up US rhetoric against Iran has come against the backdrop of an intensifying violence in Iraq as US forces clash with Shiite militia "special groups" that the US military say are backed by Iran.
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So...having two carriers there is a reminder that we're not going to attack them?
So...having two carriers there is a reminder that we’re not going to attack them?
The carrier is replacing the one that is currently there. That one will be leaving the Gulf area in two days, so they said on TV.
Interesting coincidence in names here...
Quite a bow wave in that pic.
We don't have enough to sustain that.
Nice to see. Carriers just don’t look right without an F-14 on the deck.
Audio, Mars in Gustav Holst’s The Planets. Nice fit.
"We don't have enough to sustain that." "
Sure we do. More than enough. And we've done it in the past. Three+ carriers in the Indian Ocean, a couple in the Med.
The real question is, how many are needed, just as a "reminder" to Ahmanutjob that we're watching his a$$ pretty d*mn close?
What is the frikking point of this? We’ve been talking and threatening for years, and they continue to arm themselves with nukes, continue to harbor terrorists and continue to kill US soldiers.
We have 12 carriers. Two are in extended yard periods at any given time, so we have 10 deployable carriers. Keeping 3 in the Gulf and two in the Med would mean that they would spend 6 months deployed, six months at home. When are they supposed to do maintenance, work-ups, rest their crews, whatever?
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Why do I keep hearing in the back of my mind... 
George C. Scott saying "We're going to have to fight the Russians eventually anyway. It might as well be now while we've already got the army here to do it. Look, in ten days I'll have a war on with those Communist bastards, and I'll make it look like their fault!" while I stand up cheering!
Ping to video!
And whoever invented aircraft carriers and
steam launch catapults are geniuses.
God bless and protect our awesome troops.
Neat-o!
Thank you! I just made it.
I can't imagine how y'all do that, especially if it's all html code. Makes my head hurt .. LOL
That one was easy. Some take 8 or more hours and html is only used for the posting part.
I have to find the material, cut things out, lighten, darken, resize, paint and then start compositing - like the plane 9 times to get the movement.
Then I put all the frames together to get a moving GIF, lol.
Often makes my head hurt too!!
That’s lovely!
Thank you, potlatch!
That noise you hear is the sound of freedom!
Thank you DC.
There was a pier, small boats, a shoreline and buildings that I had to paint out in that background!! Couldn’t make one of a landing so just made a ‘by pass’ one.
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