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Coast Guard firing on boat in the Potomac [A TRAINING EXERCISE!?!?!?!?!?!]
CNN ^ | Sept 11, 2009 | CNN

Posted on 09/11/2009 7:13:40 AM PDT by TLI

Edited on 09/11/2009 7:47:44 AM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]

Coast Guard fired on boat in the Potomac, nothing on the wires yet...

Who are these idiots!!!!!!!!!!


174 posted on 09/11/2009 7:37:05 AM PDT by maggief


TOPICS: Breaking News; Miscellaneous; News/Current Events; US: District of Columbia; US: Virginia
KEYWORDS: boat; coastguard; dc; drill; potomac; uscg
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To: georgiagirl_pam

CNN Law Enformcement correspondent: FBI sources got messages on pagers that it was an exercise.

CNN talking heads seem genuinely outraged, too, that it happened on 9/11 near where the POTUS was.


181 posted on 09/11/2009 7:38:07 AM PDT by Carlucci
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To: maggief

such a true graphic!!!! We have a insane leader!!


182 posted on 09/11/2009 7:38:10 AM PDT by pollywog (staying...... " Under His Wings" Psalm 91:4)
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To: Ingtar

Oh okay. Gotcha!


183 posted on 09/11/2009 7:38:17 AM PDT by Constitution Day
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To: jersey117

I think someone better investigate whether or not the Obama administration has made Johnny Knoxville and the boys from Jackass the prank Czars. What IDIOT scheduled this TODAY!!!!!!!!!!!


184 posted on 09/11/2009 7:38:26 AM PDT by panthermom
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To: penelopesire; STARWISE

I’m working n lurking- but can SOMEONE explain...WHO in their right mind would schedule a TRAINING excercise on 9/11???


185 posted on 09/11/2009 7:38:41 AM PDT by SE Mom (Proud mom of an Iraq war combat vet)
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To: TLI
Conducting a training exercise today and in that location with shots fired is so inconceivably stupid that I doubt that's what really happened.

Obama's an idiot, but the people who run the Coast Guard are not. My suspicion is that there's been some sort of minor incident that they'd rather not publicize.

186 posted on 09/11/2009 7:39:18 AM PDT by RetroSexual
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To: maggief

Hands down, that is the best animated gif of the year.


187 posted on 09/11/2009 7:40:20 AM PDT by NautiNurse (Obama: A day without TOTUS is like a day without sunshine)
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To: SueRae

If they stick with the line that it was a “training exercise” then I wouldn’t think so.

The thing is — how many people believe the folks in the Coast Guard are STUPID ENOUGH to plan an exercise on today of all days right by the Pentagon and the President?

I call BS on the whole thing. Sounds like a cover-up to me. Something sure as heck DID happen. Where did the reports of 10 shots fired come from initially? Surely there are MANY, MANY witnesses to this event that could confirm personally whether shots were, or were not fired upon this vessel. I would think there were many news cameras in the area as well due to the memorial... I wonder what, if anything, the media caught on tape — perhaps from a news helicopter or something?

If this really WAS a “training exercise” then heads need to roll in the Coast Guard. If it was NOT then the American public deserves to know the TRUTH.


188 posted on 09/11/2009 7:40:24 AM PDT by LibertyRocks ( http://LibertyRocks.wordpress.com ~ ANTI-OBAMA STUFF : http://cafepress.com/NO_ObamaBiden08)
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To: georgiagirl_pam
"HOW STUPID CAN YOU GET?!!"

Look at who we just elected and ask me that question again.
189 posted on 09/11/2009 7:40:30 AM PDT by Sudetenland (Slow to anger but terrible in vengence...such is the character of the American people.)
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To: SueRae; All

If they stick with the line that it was a “training exercise” then I wouldn’t think so.

The thing is — how many people believe the folks in the Coast Guard are STUPID ENOUGH to plan an exercise on today of all days right by the Pentagon and the President?

I call BS on the whole thing. Sounds like a cover-up to me. Something sure as heck DID happen. Where did the reports of 10 shots fired come from initially? Surely there are MANY, MANY witnesses to this event that could confirm personally whether shots were, or were not fired upon this vessel. I would think there were many news cameras in the area as well due to the memorial... I wonder what, if anything, the media caught on tape — perhaps from a news helicopter or something?

If this really WAS a “training exercise” then heads need to roll in the Coast Guard. If it was NOT then the American public deserves to know the TRUTH.


190 posted on 09/11/2009 7:40:33 AM PDT by LibertyRocks ( http://LibertyRocks.wordpress.com ~ ANTI-OBAMA STUFF : http://cafepress.com/NO_ObamaBiden08)
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To: _Jim
This needs to be posted in it's entirety before the stupidity is flushed down the memory hole:
Updated 10:32 AM EDT, Fri, Sep 11, 2009

The Coast Guard is denying a CNN report that it fired 10 rounds at a "suspicious vessel" in the Potomac River.

CNN reported that the Coast Guard had fired the rounds at a boat in the Potomac. According to the Coast Guard, however, it was a training exercise conducted in the Potomac moments before President Barack Obama's motorcade crossed.

D.C. Harbor Patrol also said that the incident was a training exercise. There was a simulated radio call about shots fired, but no actual shots were fired, one official said.

A temporary restricted zone had been set up on the river due to the Pentagon 9/11 ceremony, according to CNN.

[emphasis added]

That sure sounds like Barbara Streisand. Moments before the motorcade crossed???

191 posted on 09/11/2009 7:40:47 AM PDT by NonValueAdded ("The President has borrowed more money to spend to less effect than anybody on the planet. " Steyn)
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To: maggief

They had to do it while Zero was nearby too. IT’S ALL ABOUT OBAMA..ALL THE TIME!!

This will take the news away from terrorists and 911 to: ‘Poor Obama..they have to train because rednecks are out to get him’.

This is pathetic. You mark my words. MSNBC will be talking about ‘white racist conservatives’ out to ‘get’ Obama all day and the meme will be that they have to train all the time now because Zero is black and there are so many racists’.

(CUE GIANT EYE ROLL)


192 posted on 09/11/2009 7:40:56 AM PDT by penelopesire ("The only CHANGE you will get with the Democrats is the CHANGE left in your pocket")
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To: TLI

First it was...

President Obama calls Air Force One flyover ‘mistake’ day after low-flying plane terrifies New York

Now, on 9-11-2009...

The US Coast Guard has fired shots at a suspicious boat on the Potomac river just outside Washington DC, US media have said.

Is the Administration having way too much fun keeping Americans terrified?


193 posted on 09/11/2009 7:41:08 AM PDT by TheDailyChange (Politics,Conservatism,Liberalism)
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To: TLI

Something is very strange here — I really can’t believe that this was an exercise on 9-11.


194 posted on 09/11/2009 7:41:19 AM PDT by Salvation ("With God all things are possible." Matthew 19:26)
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To: SE Mom

My answer to your question — No-one could be THAT stupid!


195 posted on 09/11/2009 7:41:23 AM PDT by LibertyRocks ( http://LibertyRocks.wordpress.com ~ ANTI-OBAMA STUFF : http://cafepress.com/NO_ObamaBiden08)
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To: Jedidah

But it is classic Al Queda MO—anniversay of some important Muslim terrorist event.

But I guess we really should wait for the details to come in.


196 posted on 09/11/2009 7:41:38 AM PDT by dools007
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To: Red in Blue PA

hard to imagine that level of stupidity except on DU and MSNBC


197 posted on 09/11/2009 7:41:47 AM PDT by GeronL (http://libertyfic.proboards.com ............. http://tyrannysentinel.blogspot.com)
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To: mockingbyrd

An exercise? This is nuts. They are terrorizing Americans. Is this fun to them? It’s like flying Obama’s plane at NY skyscrapers for a photo opportunity. They terrorized New Yorker! Now they are doing it again?


198 posted on 09/11/2009 7:41:50 AM PDT by SaraJohnson
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To: cajungirl

LOL, any news on whether the Puddle Pirates hit the thing? ;)


199 posted on 09/11/2009 7:41:56 AM PDT by 556x45
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To: Sudetenland

point well taken


200 posted on 09/11/2009 7:42:18 AM PDT by NonValueAdded ("The President has borrowed more money to spend to less effect than anybody on the planet. " Steyn)
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