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US Government Urges American Citizens to Leave Syria as US Aircraft Carrier Approaches
Forbes ^

Posted on 11/24/2011 2:02:26 PM PST by Sub-Driver

US Government Urges American Citizens to Leave Syria as US Aircraft Carrier Approaches

As the violent crackdown against Syrian dissidents continues, the US government is warning all American citizens in the country to leave immediately, according to CBS. Turkish citizens are also being warned to stay out of the country. The US ambassador to Syria, Robert Ford, was pulled from that country last month.

The U.S. embassy continues to urge U.S. citizens in Syria to depart immediately while commercial transportation is available,” began a statement released Wednesday on the embassy website. “The number of airlines serving Syria has decreased significantly since the summer, while many of those airlines remaining have reduced their number of flights.”

Meanwhile, Tyler Durden at Zero Hedge notices that according to Stratfor, the “CVN 77 George H.W. Bush has left its traditional theater of operations just off the Straits of Hormuz, a critical choke point, where it traditionally accompanies the Stennis, and has parked… right next to Syria.”

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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Front Page News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: bomb; carrier; cvn77; georgehwbush; gulfofhormuz; iran; straitsofhormuz; syria; syriatravelwarning; turkey; usn; ustravelwarning
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To: mylife

41 posted on 11/24/2011 3:13:53 PM PST by txhurl
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To: mylife

You make a convincing case.


42 posted on 11/24/2011 3:27:56 PM PST by USFRIENDINVICTORIA
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To: Sub-Driver

The Turks are a can of worms, but they beat Pohkistan and the Sauds


43 posted on 11/24/2011 3:41:06 PM PST by mylife (The Roar Of The Masses Could Be Farts)
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To: USFRIENDINVICTORIA

I would love to solve the worlds problems but I am on the phone to family.

Please forgive me if I appear rude.


44 posted on 11/24/2011 3:42:57 PM PST by mylife (The Roar Of The Masses Could Be Farts)
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To: bert

No. He relished the moment. He fomented a revolution, just as he did in Tunisia and Egypt.
And he knew who the players are.


45 posted on 11/24/2011 3:48:42 PM PST by mylife (The Roar Of The Masses Could Be Farts)
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To: bert

No. He relished the moment. He fomented a revolution, just as he did in Tunisia and Egypt.
And he knew who the players are.
He ignored the people trying to rebel against Assad and the Iranian Mullahs


46 posted on 11/24/2011 3:49:56 PM PST by mylife (The Roar Of The Masses Could Be Farts)
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To: jimbo123

Anybody spot Israel? That is one small fly in the ointment. God bless Israel.


47 posted on 11/24/2011 3:50:27 PM PST by healy61
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Just like he is fomenting the OWS people.


48 posted on 11/24/2011 3:51:21 PM PST by mylife (The Roar Of The Masses Could Be Farts)
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To: mylife

obama is an enemy to America and the American people... history will make the obama name a hated one.

LLS


49 posted on 11/24/2011 3:52:39 PM PST by LibLieSlayer ("Americans are hungry to feel once again a sense of mission and greatness." Ronaldo Magnus)
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To: LibLieSlayer

He is like Mussaweenie.

On the wrong side of history


50 posted on 11/24/2011 3:54:21 PM PST by mylife (The Roar Of The Masses Could Be Farts)
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To: mylife

The Turks threatened Syria a few years ago and Assad quickly backed down. The have the second largest army in NATO.


51 posted on 11/24/2011 4:45:32 PM PST by Sub-Driver (Proud member of the Republican wing of the Republican Party)
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To: Sub-Driver

Are you saying..smaller armies cannot defeat a larger army?


52 posted on 11/24/2011 5:44:21 PM PST by bushpilot1
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To: mylife

Oh please, if it was Bush threatening Syria, people would be falling all over themselves with excitement.

Though, of course, the Left would be outraged - both sides can be hypocritical.


53 posted on 11/24/2011 6:02:36 PM PST by Strategerist
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Berosus; bigheadfred; Bockscar; ColdOne; Convert from ECUSA; ...

Thanks Sub-Driver.
As the violent crackdown against Syrian dissidents continues, the US government is warning all American citizens in the country to leave immediately, according to CBS. Turkish citizens are also being warned to stay out of the country.
Get ready, Zero and his administration is just about to flip a couple of scripts.


54 posted on 11/24/2011 6:35:23 PM PST by SunkenCiv (It's never a bad time to FReep this link -- https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
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To: mylife

“He ignored the people trying to rebel against Assad and the Iranian Mullahs”

Of course he did and that’s what’s disgusting! The Iranian people were begging for our help and our government and the rest of the western world did NOTHING!

But it’s perfectly ok to meddle in Egypt, Libya and now Syria???


55 posted on 11/24/2011 6:49:29 PM PST by wk4bush2004 ("FREEDOM, PROSPERITY, RESPONSIBILITY: RICK PERRY 2012!")
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To: Sub-Driver

Meanwhile “renamed turkeys” LIBERTY an PEACE in America have been pardoned?
The way boy zero acted when doing so worries me.


56 posted on 11/24/2011 7:16:57 PM PST by Tigen (I shall raise you one .)
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To: ROCKLOBSTER
So...if we had a carrier and a destroyer there, and they totally unleashed...how long would Syria last...in minutes?

I thought that the Russkies had some ships off Syria as well.

57 posted on 11/24/2011 7:36:00 PM PST by Mike Darancette (Either Obama can beat any GOP candidate or no GOP candidate.)
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To: dragnet2
Who are the bad guys this time? Anyone know?

The US and NATO are always the good guys so whom ever gets NATO humanitarian bombs dropped on them MUST be the bad guys.

For example, all those Christian Serbs killed by NATO bombs to put the drug dealing, white slaving, Al-Qaeda supported KLA into power were all as bad as Nazis.

All those Libyans that were killed and are still being killed by NATO's Al-Qaeda allies had it coming to them for allowing that brutal tyrant Gaddafi to be their dictator.

58 posted on 11/24/2011 7:43:51 PM PST by Roninf5-1
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To: Sub-Driver

Yes! Yet another undeclared, unconstitutional war on the horizon we cannot afford


59 posted on 11/24/2011 7:53:38 PM PST by Leader_Of_The _Conservatives (High time to bring back the true sons of liberty!!!!)
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To: LibLieSlayer
obama is an enemy to America and the American people... history will make the obama name a hated one.

I pray that in the years ahead Obama will be so hated that he will have to leave America to find peace. This man is purposely trying to destroy ALL that is good about America.

Obama wants America and Israel destroyed.

60 posted on 11/24/2011 11:03:02 PM PST by sand88
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