Posted on 08/29/2013 6:18:41 PM PDT by Nachum
A fifth U.S. warship steamed toward the eastern Mediterranean on Thursday to join four other cruise missile destroyers poised for strikes on Syria, as U.S. and allied military planning continued for a bombing campaign against Syria.
U.S. intelligence agencies, meanwhile, continued to put the finishing touches on an assessment the Obama administration expects will conclusively link Syrian government and military leaders to the deadly nerve agent strike near Damascus Aug. 21.
A defense official said the fifth destroyer, the USS Stout, would soon arrive in waters near Syria. The warship is armed with Tomahawk cruise missiles.
Other officials familiar with intelligence reports said the White House is expected to release its intelligence assessment outlining the case against the Syrian government for the deadly nerve gas attacks near Damascus as early as Friday. The chemical rocket attack used nerve agent that killed up to 1,400 people.
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The list, Ping
Let me know if you would like to be on or off the ping list
Don’t ask me, I don’t give a damn
Next stop is Syria-nam.
Really, who gives a rat’s @$$ if mozlums kill each other. I find it a win-win situation.
if the picture is suppose to match the story it doesn’t. pictured is the TICONDEROGA class guided missile cruiser SAN JACINTO not a DD.
If it’s the Muslim Brotherhood or al Qaeda’s hand maidens vs Assad’s Leadership of Syria, that certainly gets my vote. Go at it guys. Have fun.
That seems like an awful lot of fire power just to lob a few missiles.
Obama lied, Syrians died.
Reminds me of a documentary I was watching about the air war in Vietnam. McNamara visits one of the carriers and is talking to the pilots. He doesn’t care what they’ve bombed or how they’re doing, just how much tonnage has been dropped. That’s it. Amount of weapons launched was his only criteria for success. The targets they risked their lives to bomb didn’t matter at all.
Did I hear today that Egypt is threatening to close the Suez Canal if there is any military action on Syria?
Maybe that is reason for the build up of naval forces.
Obama is determined to bomb Syria. His team is working on how to package it. Meanwhile Dear Leader likes terrorizing the Syrian people under the threat of a bomb strike.
I believe this WH will coordinate all military strikes with the rebels for maximum effect.
We enjoyed our Med cruise nigh 2 years ago.. love to do it again. Don’t screw it up, Put’.
Godspeed to our military folk at sea , here and abroad.
Did you read both pages of this article?
http://dailycaller.com/2013/08/29/verify-chemical-weapons-use-before-unleashing-the-dogs-of-war/
Could Obama be responsible for the poor innocent children who suffered this attack?
without Congressional authorization, everyone of these ship’s commanders are violating the Constitution and accepting an illegal order - right?
It’s strange. I feel so utterly detached and distant from this amateur banana regime, I don’t much care about this crap. When we attacked Libya, I was concerned about our strategic position etc, but no longer...
I am watching this country crash and burn, but King Barry won reelection. That’s what America wanted.
So we deploy arguably the most powerful military in the world, maybe the most powerful military that has ever existed in history, to help in a civil war in which neither side will side with ever us?
But when Americans were dying in Benghazi to protect their fellow Americans we couldn’t lift a finger?
The Russians have something like a dozen ships in the area with missile cruisers on the way. I think there is a lot of chest puffing going on separate from a planned direct attack on Syria.
and its one, two three what are we fightin for?
Dont ask me I dont give a poop
Barrys friends are in the soup
and its four five six England just said Nix
Oh its not our place to ask Barry why?
Whoopy dhimmis gonna die..
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