Posted on 01/13/2016 12:55:00 AM PST by ScottWalkerForPresident2016
I agree.
As I was saying . . .
“Kerry says release of US sailors ‘testament’ to Iran diplomacy, nuke deal going forward”
Another page out of Rahm’s playbook: “never let a crisis go to waste”
It does almost make you wonder if it was a setup?
“we’re so sorry...?” Democrats are a collective bunch of pu$$* farts!
Back during the Cuban missile crisis Kennedy made the Russians back down. With this filthy scumbag islamic mullah obama and todays democrats -all we see are apologies. I hope all Americans now realize that there should not be another democrat President for decades to come.
Fundamental Transformation 95% complete...
And the gop says nothing. Need anymore proof that they’re all in this together? They want this nation destroyed and they want Christianity destroyed. Pure evil.
The commander of the boats / boat apologized on Iranian TV. Why, I have no idea.
The man looked like a complete fool.
This is Spy vs. Spy.
These were spies who messed up & got caught.
If an Iranian boat ran aground in the Potomac, some of you yahoos would want them executed.
We don’t know what went on behind the scenes, but I’m glad these guys are coming home safe and sound and the Iranians didn’t even keep the boats!
Win/win.
Here is what REALLY happened!
The comment by Matt Bracken on the linked article at the bottom:
“I rarely pull out my dusty old trident, but in this case, here goes. I was a Navy SEAL officer in the 1980s, and this kind of operation (transiting small boats in foreign waters) was our bread and butter. Today, these boats both not only had radar, but multiple GPS devices, including chart plotters that place your boat’s icon right on the chart. The claim by Iran that the USN boats “strayed into Iranian waters” is complete bull$#it.
For an open-water transit between nations, the course is studied and planned in advance by the leaders of the Riverine Squadron, with specific attention given to staying wide and clear of any hostile nation’s claimed territorial waters. The boats are given a complete mechanical check before departure, and they have sufficient fuel to accomplish their mission plus extra. If, for some unexplainable and rare circumstance one boat broke down, the other would tow it, that’s why two boats go on these trips and not one! It’s called “self-rescue” and it’s SOP.
This entire situation is in my area of expertise. I can state with complete confidence that both Iran and our own State Department are lying. The boats did not enter Iranian waters. They were overtaken in international waters by Iranian patrol boats that were so superior in both speed and firepower that it became a “hands up!” situation, with automatic cannons in the 40mm to 76mm range pointed at them point-blank. Surrender, hands up, or be blown out of the water. I assume that the Iranians had an English speaker on a loudspeaker to make the demand. This takedown was no accident or coincidence, it was a planned slap across America’s face.
Just watch. The released sailors will be ordered not to say a word about the incident, and the Iranians will have taken every GPS device, chart-plotter etc off the boats, so that we will not be able to prove where our boats were taken.
The “strayed into Iranian waters” story being put out by Iran and our groveling and appeasing State Dept. is utter and complete BS from one end to the other.”
http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2016/01/10_us_sailors_held_by_iran_confirmed_freed.html
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