Posted on 06/13/2019 8:48:19 PM PDT by gandalftb
...twenty-one sailors from the M/T Kokuka Courageous who had abandoned their ship after discovering a probable unexploded limpet mine on their hull...
At 4:10 p.m. local time an IRGC (Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps) Gashti Class patrol boat approached the M/T Kokuka Courageous and was observed and recorded removing the unexploded limpet mine from the M/T Kokuka Courageous (video attached).
The United States has no interest in engaging in a new conflict in the Middle East. However, we will defend our interests.
(Excerpt) Read more at navy.mil ...
Got it. ;-)
I remember Obama’s folks doing crap to advance his agenda...I take umbrage when some of the folks seem to be equating President Trump with LBJ (Gulf of Tonkin remarks by someone).
Then the usual conspiracy theorists question the photos with crap like, “Since when are Iranian boats allowed that close to our assets”, w/o considering long-range/drone possibilities.
I realize the deep State would do much to try to damage President Trump, but I also believe that any doing something like attacking foreign tankers (acts of war) would have to already be sure they were on the way to prison/the gallows to do so now...sometimes the bad guys (Iranians) really are the bad guys.
“Das Limpet?”
Don Knotts is still with us.
Thank you
Lol!!!!!
Hey brother... how the Hell are ya...
You assume that the destruction of the vessels was the goal.
“How are they allowed to get that close to one of our ships? “
neither attacked oil tanker was a U.S. ship nor bound for the U.S. ...
All good ...... snoopy dancing my way through life !
That would be a really bad idea. No US ships were involved, no US citizens were hurt, it didn’t happen in US territory, and all cargo was bound for Asia. What that adds up to is: not our problem.
After reading a bit more. Yep looks like someone else’s job. Thanks!
Iran knows that the Congress will not fund a war. So the United States will lose another one.
Their security consists of air horns of pain-inducing volume and powerful water hoses.
However, in spite of these policies of the UN, I have videos proporting to show Somalia boats being blasted into oblivion by mercenaries.
Their security consists of air horns of pain-inducing volume and powerful water hoses == Joke.
The Last Ditch NeverTrump Ploy: A Stupid War With Iran
From here: https://stream.org/the-last-ditch-nevertrump-ploy-stupid-war-with-iran/
The Last Ditch NeverTrump Ploy: A Stupid War With Iran
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....... Time to Wag the Dog
But how to derail a successful presidency?
Get the president to mire the U.S. in a stupid, protracted war. A war that doesn’t just have a simple aim, like kicking Iraq out of Kuwait.
No, those are too easy to end.
You need to land Trump in an open-ended conflict where the goalposts keep moving forward.
A war for “democracy,” to “spread freedom” to some part of the world that never had it, doesn’t want it, and will fight like hell to reject it.
A place like … the Middle East.
And here comes the easy part. You’ve got plenty of experience here. You and your pals wrote the playbook for entering the Iraq War. That conflict swallowed George W. Bush’s presidency whole. Can anyone remember a single other thing he did?
Trump probably clinched the nomination when he dared at a GOP debate to say what so Americans are thinking: We were lied into that war.
So it’s time to lure Trump into this one.
No, Iran is not a genuine threat to American safety, any more than Saddam Hussein was involved in 9/11, or developing nuclear weapons. Shi’ite Iran is surrounded by Sunni rivals who hate it more than they hate Israel. (And that’s saying something.)
Israel has nukes sufficient to flatten the place, and (understandably) few qualms about using them.
Read conservative Christian expert on Islam Timothy Furnish here at The Stream on how unlikely Iran’s leaders are to commit collective suicide.
But most Americans don’t know jack about any of that.
They do know that Islam is hostile to their freedoms, and that Iran took American hostages more than forty years ago.
So they’re primed to take offense at the stupid things tried by the mullahs in Tehran. They’re ready, you hope, to swallow every violent act by Shi’ites anywhere in the world aimed at anyone, as a “clear and present danger to America.” It might even help them vent their anger about all the caravans marching into the U.S. through Mexico....”
Read more at link: https://stream.org/the-last-ditch-nevertrump-ploy-stupid-war-with-iran/
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My thoughts exactly. Neocon GOPE (Bolton/Bush/DeepState) shoving Iran war down our throats.
Don’t sell Bush short. He also failed to address spending and illegal immigration.
I think Trump can smell a neocon rat a mile away.
Seal Team 6, in for a hop and pop? Those little outboard powered prayer rugs are going to start mysteriously disappearing, that’s my bet.
What is amazing is that in the video there must have been 30 Iranian rag heads on that little outboard powered shingle.( Did the boarding party chicken out?) Two Jolly Green Giants and a lazer designator. .......nothing left but splintereenos...Alahwahoo Whackbar!
P.S. Energy independence was a political master-stroke, as well as the right thing to go.
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