Officials giving mixed messages on why US aircraft carrier shadowing Iranian convoy

Fox News ^ | April 21, 2015

[DiogenesLamp]

Two birds with one stone! He diminishes our nuke inventory and gives his buddies what they want!

It is so sad that we can even joke about such a thing.

[Marcella]

It appears this is useless - Iran won't let us board their ships to look for weapons, so why are we there? We're going to bomb their ships if we can't board them? That is the only way to stop them from going to those ports.

Obama, the Muslim freak show, wouldn't order our ships to bother his friends, so why are we there?

We are spending millions for these ships of ours to be there and look big and powerful. Iran knows we aren't going to attack their ships, so they are laughing all the way down to the ship's dining room, having an “into port drinking party”.

[McGruff]

Bunch of frikin amateurs are going to get alot of us killed before they are ousted.

[onedoug]

Or the Israelis.

Welcome to the muslim Navy.

[Some Fat Guy in L.A.]

But State Department spokeswoman Marie Harf insisted Tuesday that the U.S. ships were "only" there to provide an escort for the Iranian ships, in case the evil JOOOOOSS try to mess with them. There. Fixed it.