Posted on 11/20/2015 4:09:10 AM PST by luke1825
One shudders to think what the late President Harry S Truman would say if he knew his namesake U.S. aircraft carrier was being used as a prop in Barack Obama's phony war against ISIS.
The USS Harry S. Truman, and its attendant ships, with 5,000 sailors aboard, left the Naval Station in Norfolk, Va., Monday for deployment in the Persian Gulf, where it will partake in the harassment bombing of ISIS
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Still can’t figure out why it makes sense to put a blue water battle group into the confines of a narrow body of water, half the shoreline of which is purely hostile unless it’s to use American sailors as bait. The Truman can do her job in that area just as well from the Arabian Sea and a couple destroyers can show the flag and declare free passage just as effectively in the Gulf.
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