Posted on 07/17/2011 3:04:30 PM PDT by blam
So with Obama in the White House,are we going to be backing the Iranians?
Interesting... but mot surprising. It’s amazing it hasn’t gone down already.
Sadly, this is a legitimate question right now...
With his poll numbers tanking and his expected donations to date at only 38%, do we see a wag the dog situation forming up? Most certainly it isn’t because it is the right thing to do.
Haven't we been since the 70s Carter days, and ever since?
What did we do about it then? Reagan? B1 B2 Billy Jeff & Bridezilla, and now the obvious current.
We should have nuked em then!
Emmyfurs declared WAR on us and we just kept on SLEEPING.
If he were backing the Iranians, wouldn’t the bulk be in the Med? The only considrable reason to be in the Gulf if he were backing the Iraninans would be to protect them.
“Israel-Iran War in September?”
If I had a nickel for everytime this was supposed to have happened.....
“he only considrable reason to be in the Gulf if he were backing the Iraninans would be to protect them.”
This isn’t so far fetched!
Anyone else moving into that neighborhood? China, Russia, etc.?
That said, we will not initiate a real battle while we have a Carrier in the Gulf.
It's silly to even sail them up that canal.
gator navy ping
Throughout the war, air strikes were conducted from six aircraft carriers operating in the Red Sea and Persian Gulf.
USS America (CV 66) and USS Theodore Roosevelt (CVN 71) departed Norfolk 28 December 1990, and arrived just in time for the beginning of DESERT STORM. They joined USS Midway (CV 41), USS Saratoga (CV 60), USS John F. Kennedy (CV 67) and USS Ranger (CV 61) who were already on station.
http://www.history.navy.mil/wars/dstorm/ds5.htm
Someone just posted the other day that Iran was moving 20,000 government workers from the capitol, to outlying cities to decentralized. Sounds like war plans to me.
Wouldn't that be a sure-fire way of guaranteeing international support for a Palestinian state?
I don’t think so. I went out to ticket master and tickets for the war aren’t on sale yet.
"It's silly to even sail them up that canal."
My opinion too.
It says first that the ship has "weighed anchor" next to Lybia, then indicates with the next sentence that there have been no ships stationed there before this. If that vessel weighed anchor then it has been there already and is pulling its anchor up to leave. Perhaps the authors are trying to throw in some nautical terms they have heard but think that their meanings don't matter?
It would not surprise me if the US gave Israel the okay then shot down the Israeli aircraft. That would probably solve the whole MidEast mess in the eyes of our Moslem president.
Actually we converged major assets in the area several times in the Bush years and nothing happened. We marched our troops forthrightly up the hill then marched them down again. And again. We really really mean it this time, really!
Any time such an attack is projected for the future I know it will not happen. I will believe it when the news reader says “Iran Four Hours Ago!”
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