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Second incident now, after last week. the Alpine Eternity got away by fleeing into UAE waters.

A US Navy ship was 20 miles away, but "Did not get involved" because there wasn't a "Distress call". (Yet, the UAE Coast Guard knew to send 3 cutters to help the ship?)

1 posted on 05/14/2015 6:32:32 AM PDT by tcrlaf
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2 posted on 05/14/2015 6:36:36 AM PDT by Yosemitest (It's Simple ! Fight, ... or Die !)
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Time to splash some Iranian ships.....

But our Panti’s-in-Chief doesn’t have the balls.....

The straits are definitely in our national strategic interest...


3 posted on 05/14/2015 6:39:15 AM PDT by nevergore
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Singapore has a pretty good Navy.


6 posted on 05/14/2015 6:58:50 AM PDT by Genoa (Starve the beast.)
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Five Iranian boats fired shots . . . Obama has ordered all white bastards of the US Navy out of the Gulf Region, has offered an apology to the Iranians for the white privileged US Navy for being in the Gulf and promises to pay reparations to all Iranians for the white privileged bastards racist activities throughout the Gulf States!

Obama has promised billions in US white privileged bastards tax dollars to the Iranians if they will just allow the US Navy white bastards to leave peacefully!

Obama leads the White-house Administration in prayer praising Allah!

8 posted on 05/14/2015 7:02:27 AM PDT by paratrooper82 ( 82nd ABN DIV. 1/508th BN "Fury from the Sky" Civil war is coming)
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http://en.mehrnews.com/news/106867/Iran-Singapore-to-expand-economic-ties


9 posted on 05/14/2015 7:05:18 AM PDT by Genoa (Starve the beast.)
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"Alpine Eternity" is a tanker, not a cargo ship.

http://www.marinetraffic.com/ais/details/ships/shipid:727344/mmsi:563944000/imo:9430272/vessel:ALPINE_ETERNITY

11 posted on 05/14/2015 7:33:07 AM PDT by thackney (life is fragile, handle with prayer)
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Same old Obama rules of engagement.

The enemy can fire at will.

For the American military, there can be no will.

Leni

12 posted on 05/14/2015 7:38:24 AM PDT by MinuteGal
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They had been escorting commercial shipping but of two recent Iranian incidents interfering with cargo shipping in the area.

Wot?

14 posted on 05/14/2015 7:50:51 AM PDT by Straight Vermonter (Posting from deep behind the Maple Curtain)
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0bama’s a wuss.


15 posted on 05/14/2015 7:59:08 AM PDT by Uncle Miltie (we also gave those who wished to destroy space to do that - Baltimore's Democrat Mayor)
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expect to see more of this, and greater aggression by the Iranians.

obama will let them do anything, including fire on an American ship. nothing will cause him to walk away from his legacy treaty with Iran

probably see mines being laid in the gulf next.


16 posted on 05/14/2015 8:10:30 AM PDT by tm61 (Election 2012: we find it IS possible, to polish a turd.)
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Iran is feeling their oats now that they have the leader of the Great Satan bowing to them.


17 posted on 05/14/2015 8:42:36 AM PDT by GeronL (NEW ARRIVALS -> 99 cents buy here: https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/541331)
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Five Iranian boats fire shots in the Persian Gulf

...hopefully at each other.

21 posted on 05/14/2015 10:28:28 AM PDT by OrangeHoof (Every time you say no to a liberal, you make the Baby Barack cry.)
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Oh boy!
“The Pentagon is still gathering information about the incident”.

Report due next year.

Our DOD is hopeless. We got a new head of JCS. Hope he’s at least 10% better than the coward who just left, Gen. Dempsey.

We need a Patton and get a Hilton Perez.


31 posted on 05/14/2015 3:18:52 PM PDT by MadMax, the Grinning Reaper (madmax)
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