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The Navy Is Sending Everything It Needs For A War With Iran To The Strait Of Hormuz
Business Insider ^ | March 16, 2012 | Robert Johnson

Posted on 03/17/2012 7:29:32 AM PDT by Strategy

The global signs of a coming military conflict with Iran continue to build, and today the U.S. Navy made clear its intentions by announcing it's sending four additional mine countermeasure ships to the Strait of Hormuz.

Stars and Stripes reports the Chief of Naval Operations Adm. Jonathan Greenert told the Senate Armed Services Committee that he's sending the mine ships in addition to four airborne mine countermeasure helicopters.

Iran has already warned that one of its first steps in closing the Strait of Hormuz, and choking off 40 percent of the world's oil supply, will be to mine the strait and deploy its fleet of small electronic submarines.

Greenert was recently aboard the USS John C. Stennis when it was tailed through the strait by the Iranians and came away from that ride thinking "[W]e could do better setting the theater. I wanted to be sure ... that we are ready..."

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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Front Page News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: iran; islam; israel; middleeast
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To: goseminoles

“Im glad we only get a small portion of our oil from the middle east.”

That won’t help much- the countries that do buy ME oil will be competing with us for our supply if Hormuz gets closed. Prices will soar.


81 posted on 03/17/2012 11:40:32 PM PDT by Pelham (Marco Rubio, la raza trojan horse.)
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To: cornfedcowboy

” Is mining something that can be easily and quickly performed without detection?”

Absolutely. And as effective as it’s low tech. It just requires a fleet of small, cheap boats with a lot of inexpensive mines. Iran has them. This is a much more serious threat than the nuclear one that people are focused on. No matter how many of them you sweep you can’t be sure that you have them all. That will put a serious kink in sending billion dollar supertankers into the gulf like we do today.


82 posted on 03/17/2012 11:46:50 PM PDT by Pelham (Marco Rubio, la raza trojan horse.)
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To: Pelham
That won’t help much- the countries that do buy ME oil will be competing with us for our supply if Hormuz gets closed. Prices will soar.

You're right - that's how it'll work.

83 posted on 03/18/2012 10:16:30 AM PDT by GOPJ (Democrat-Media Complex - buried stories and distorted facts... freeper 'andrew' Breitbart)
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To: mkjessup
I would not put a "Wag the Dog" maneuver out of this mutt's mind.

Every Left Wing Radical wants in his heart of hearts to be a "Wartime President," just like the adored FDR. October Surprise time, Baby.

84 posted on 03/18/2012 6:34:35 PM PDT by Kenny Bunk ((So, you're telling me Scalia, Alito, Thomas, and Roberts can't figure out this eligibility stuff?))
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To: Mariner
Ping. If the Mombasa MF thought he could knock off 20-30,000 Iranians w/o any serious repercussions, he would do it in a heartbeat the weekend before the election.

The Iranians are playing The Jerk like a violin.

85 posted on 03/18/2012 6:38:07 PM PDT by Kenny Bunk ((So, you're telling me Scalia, Alito, Thomas, and Roberts can't figure out this eligibility stuff?))
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To: goseminoles

The communist dictator of Venezuela, from which we do receive significant amounts of refined and unrefined oil, has declared that he would cut shipments to the US if we attack Iran.


86 posted on 03/18/2012 6:53:23 PM PDT by rmlew ("Mosques are our barracks, minarets our bayonets, domes our helmets, the believers our soldiers.")
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To: Mariner

10 years ago I would have belived you, but, not today.if obama orders the commanders to order their pilots to fire on israeli airplanes they will. If the pilots re ordered to fire on Israeli airplanes they will.


87 posted on 03/18/2012 7:31:34 PM PDT by sport
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To: rmlew
Venezuelan Oil is quite peculiar. It is a heavy, sludge-like crude that can only be immediately refined at a rather small number of American refineries.

To build specialized refineries for it, or to re-tool an existing refinery to handle it is no small matter. Without St. Croix and Trinidad, Chavez oil is not really all that a red hot commodity. The CHICOM may build Chavez a refinery or two, but until that happens, the fat dog can howl all he wants... or all his oncologist lets him.

88 posted on 03/18/2012 7:42:41 PM PDT by Kenny Bunk ((So, you're telling me Scalia, Alito, Thomas, and Roberts can't figure out this eligibility stuff?))
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To: bert
While Israel might be the focus. The Gulf is the prize. Israel is a trifle compared to the wealth and resources of the GCC. Then there is Mecca and the Holy Shrines.

Bin Laden wanted to be the Protector of the Shrines and displace the Saudis. The U.S. and the Soviets were just chesspieces on his board, the object of which was Mecca.

Having defeated both the USSR and the US in combat in Afghanistan, he would then descend from the mountains (in theory) as the New Saladin, the champion of Islam, to take over the Arabian peninsula and reestablish the Rightly-Guided Caliphate with him as khalifa and founder of a new dynasty.

Then we found him and killed him.

The problem with his plan, or with any Pan-Arabist's plan to reestablish the Caliphate is that, even with all that oil and territory, it would still have an Achilles heel, a fatal weakness. It'd be full of Arabs.

89 posted on 03/19/2012 2:16:33 AM PDT by lentulusgracchus
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To: bert
the Holy Shrines.

Sounds like a good application for "The Holy Hand Grenade".

90 posted on 06/02/2012 4:03:36 PM PDT by ROCKLOBSTER (Celebrate Republicans Freed the Slaves Month.)
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To: KoRn

I am sorry to write this...but just simply drop a nuke or two over their command cities and be done with it!


91 posted on 06/02/2012 4:05:20 PM PDT by fabian (" And a new day will dawn for those who stand long, and the forests will echo with laughter")
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