Navy-Contracted Vessel Fires Warning Shots on Iranian Boats

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,352579,00.html ^

[jhpigott]

A vessel contracted by the Navy in the Persian Gulf fired warning shots Thursday on two Iranian fast boats, FOX News has learned. The Westward Venture, a ship contracted by the Navy to carry military cargo to Kuwait, fired upon the boats Thursday after attempts to get Iranian boats' attention failed. The ship was about 50 miles off the coast of Iran when the fast boats approached. A Navy security team, armed with M16 rifles and .50-caliber machine guns, was onboard at the time the warning shots were fired.

[jhpigott]

ping

[Iron head mike]

Hope the Brits are paying attention!

[RaceBannon]

One can only hope it is starting...

[Slapshot68]

I wonder if the Persian Gulf could use more artificial reefs.

[wastedyears]

When dealing with Iran, warning shots should breach the bridge.

[txflake]

Or the outboards, preferably.

[Slapshot68]

It’s clear that Tehran has greenlighted this sort of cat and mouse game.

However, eventually the cat will catch the mouse and beat the ever loving crud out of it.

[mysterio]

One can only hope it is starting...

One can only hope it is not starting. Our brave soldiers are already fighting a two front war. They don't need to be fighting a three front war.

[AngelesCrestHighway]

Warning shots?....sink the turds!

[Let's Roll]

Hey, no problem, I’m sure miz paloosie will put a stop to this “contracting” business.

[RC2]

No problem if they do it from the air and hit them hard. I wouldn’t put boots on the ground in Iran. Just destroy their system of government and the people will take the country back.

[agere_contra]

I sympathize, but they’re already fighting a three-front war. Unacknowledged conflicts are impossible to win.

Anyway, Coalition Naval forces would suffer the brunt of any additional action. They have been suffering under preposterous ROE for too long: being able to go weapons-free in the gulf as a result of an Iranian casus belli would be a huge step forward.

[Quix]

One can only hope it is starting...

= = =

Yes and mostly no.

When that one lights off . . . it will grow into a true WWIII conflagration and not end until the very satanic world ruler ‘wages war with peace’ as Scripture says of his scripted temporary pseudo peace . . . . only to get going again when he begins his slaughter of Jews at the New Temple courtyard . . . and then it won’t end until Armageddon . . .

. . . after 1/3 to 2/3 of the world’s population has been killed.

Amanutjob of Iran needs put in his place . . . I wish there were a better . . . singular . . . way to do it.

[mysterio]

Just destroy their system of government and the people will take the country back.

Won't work. Another more extreme dictator will fill the power void if we strike and leave. We would have to occupy for years to prevent it. History proves this is the case almost every time.

[mysterio]

Anyway, Coalition Naval forces would suffer the brunt of any additional action.

Coalition? That means the US Navy.

We are going to be stoplossing troops into fourth and fifth tours of mideast hotzones. There's just no way to do the Iran thing successfully without occupation and a lot more feet on the ground. I don't support expanding the current mission into Iran.

[SlowBoat407]

One wishes that an attack on Iran would eliminate most of the need to have troops in Iraq, since they are the cause of much of the trouble there.

One wishes...

[jhpigott]

hearing the Iranian boats closed to within 100 yards

[varon]

One wishes that an attack on Iran would eliminate most of the need to have troops in Iraq, since they are the cause of much of the trouble there.

One also wishes for some strategic thinkers in Washington...........

[pgyanke]

When that one lights off . . . it will grow into a true WWIII conflagration and not end until the very satanic world ruler ‘wages war with peace’ as Scripture says of his scripted temporary pseudo peace . . . . only to get going again when he begins his slaughter of Jews at the New Temple courtyard . . . and then it won’t end until Armageddon . . .

When you put it that way, it begins to sound like WWI and WWII... or maybe WWI/WWII and the Cold War.

[PapaBear3625]

Won't work. Another more extreme dictator will fill the power void if we strike and leave. We would have to occupy for years to prevent it. History proves this is the case almost every time.

The only long term solution is for people to get so sick of living under an Islamic dictatorship that they revolt and string up mullahs from every lamp pole. I don't see that happening just yet

[Quix]

I have been dismayed to read convincing research into globalist skullduggary back in those eras.

Alas . . . we ain’t seen nuthin yet.

[G8 Diplomat]

First time, nothing happened. Second time, warning flares were fired. Third time’s the charm...

[Gondring]

I wonder if the Persian Gulf could use more artificial reefs.

Looks like the captain was trying to prevent the creation of one.

[John123]

Let's say the Iranians ignored the warning shots... at what point would our forces fire on the ship? When they get within a certain distance? When they (the Iranians) fire upon the ship? Does our forces have the green light to initiate fire or do they have to get affirmative from the headquarters?

Because I'm sure this is exactly the quandry those British forces faced when they got kidnapped by the Iranians a year or two ago...

It sounds like the Iranians are looking for any excuse to create another front for our forces. And we are already tapped out in the WOT. Imagine how bad the looney left is now... wait until we start bombing Iran...

[ASA Vet]

Soldiers aren't needed to eliminate Iran. That's a job for the Navy and/or Air Force.

[stuartcr]

???

[ASA Vet]

IV

[stuartcr]

Looks more and more like all those 2012 prophecies may have some meat to them...

[mysterio]

Soldiers aren't needed to eliminate Iran.

I find it exceptionally unlikely that we will accomplish regime change simply through air strikes. Of course it will require troops on the ground, and of course it will require occupation.

I think we should be careful not to overextend our forces if we want the individual missions to be successful.

[ASA Vet]

I'm not interested in regime change.

[Quix]

IV is true enough.

[Quix]

I still don’t know what to make of a lot of the 2012 stuff.

Holding all that loosely on the top shelf still.

However, I do know that a major researcher in the field was extremely sobered and insisting that the powers that be insisted that citizens did NOT WANT to know what was coming downt he pike in 2012. And she seemed to know and wouldn’t budge.

Later a FREEPER queried her about my assertion and she denied ever saying such a thing. Evidently even saying that much was too dangerous for her.

I have a hard time imagining things holding together that long. She was insisting that everyone was just trying to hold things together until then.

Then there are those who insist that WWIII/IV is going to get lit off before the end of 2008. If so, I’d say after the Olympic games and after the election. But God only knows.

I think the puppet masters are convinced that they and their ET buddies are in control. They have bought the deception that the ET explanations/cosmology is 100% true when it’s fostered by the father of lies.

They actually believe that God Almighty will lose at Armageddon. Satan knows better but what an effective way to take lots of God’s favorite creatures to hell with him.

Thankfully, GOD IS IN CONTROL AND has more surprises up His bigger sleeves than satan can imagine.

[Liberty Tree Surgeon]

But if pre-Millenialism is the correct interpretation, we won’t be here to be concerned with it. Ultimately, this means that we should only be concerned with the souls of others being saved - the tribulations will be for those we don’t reach.

[Quix]

I’m certainly convinced of a pre-wrath Rapture, at least . . .

Have increasingly thought there would be more than one catching away. . . . and even before I read the other fellow recently . . . that there would be a TRANSFORMED and left in place for a while [he says 40 days] to do exploits in our heavenly bodies . . . but he also says the Great Tribulation will only be 3.5 years. I’m still leaning toward 7 years.

I certainly want the first elevator UP!

We shall see.

Certainly the priority is to witness of the Hope that lies within us and to live the life before a hurting world.

[stuartcr]

What did she use to validate her research?

I figure that since God created all and knows the future, everything will go just as He plans...I just don’t know if we will be happy with His plan.

[Quix]

She was speaking from her contacts with sources who risk their lives to talk with her . . . reportedly, evidently.

And, my relative who has been interviewed by her a time or 3 asserted to me recently on the phone . . . that she sometimes has learned to retract things or lay low on things to stay alive, herself.

[Quix]

All who Love God will be overjoyed at the results of His plans.

Eye has not seen, nor ear heard that which God has prepared for those who Love Him.

Getting there, however, will be a job for

OVERCOMERS

by The Blood of The Lamb and the word of our tesimony.

Not by might, not by power but by my Spirit, says The Lord of the Angel Armies.

[KJV, Lord of hosts]

[mkjessup]

Hiroshima, Nagasaki, Tehran.

The classic American Trifecta.

63 years late is still ok, better late than never.

Nuke the terrorist savages.

[gpapa]

If fired upon or perceive they are about to be fired upon they can return fire with appropriate force.

[stuartcr]

At least we don’t have long to wait, but I’m curious as to how could anyone know the future?

[ExSoldier]

Soldiers aren't needed to eliminate Iran. That's a job for the Navy and/or Air Force IDF.

There, fixed it.

[Mr. Silverback]

Sink their entire Navy. That’s a couple of days for a carrier group, and the last time we did it we didn’t have any land engagements.

[Mr. Silverback]

bump for later reading

[Quix]

God can tell folks walking close to Him and listening attentively to Him . . . if their own internal noise is quiet enough.

Satanic forces also are somewhat outside of/beyond/have access to dimensions not part of this time/space dimension.

Some assert that the shadow government also now has the technology to move around in time—at least in a recon sense.

Time will tell.

LOL.

[ASA Vet]

Without resorting to Nukes the IDF can’t do it.

[ASA Vet]

[stuartcr]

Yep, less than 5yrs.

[RaceBannon]

I believe we can use our airpower to destoy these clowns

IF they decide to start something with troops, our forces have the means to monitor their every move, like we are already, I am sure

I have no sympathy for an Iranian Army that invades Iraq that now has an Army with AMERICAN leaders, weapons, and manpower and airpower and over 2 MILLION Iraqi men who would be quite willing to re-fight that war on those terms!

:)

[Quix]

Depicting ???

—a wrinkle in time?

or

—bending time/space to take a shortcut between two addys in this multiverse?