Posted on 01/16/2016 6:31:19 PM PST by skimbell
Meanwhile, during Friday prayers in Iran, a commander of the IRGC unit that detained the U.S. boats and claimed that the American military cowered when faced down by Iranian troops.
“I saw the weakness, cowardice, and fear of American soldiers myself. Despite having all of the weapons and equipment, they surrendered themselves with the first action of the guardians of Islam,†Ahmad Dolabi, an IRGC commander, said in Persian-language remarks at a prayer service in Iran’s Bushehr providence.
“American forces receive the best training and have the most advanced weapons in the world,†he added. “But they did not have the power to confront the Guard due to weakness of faith and belief.â€
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Why did they both break down at the same time? Why, with all the sophisticated geographical positioning technology available to them did they stray into Iranian waters? And why didn't they fight back?
As far as I know, these are the only naval war craft, in the entire history of the USA, to have been captured on the high seas without a shot being fired (The USS Pueblo, which was virtually unarmed, only surrendered after taking fire).
Just back from watching 13 HOURS ,
THESE people will not be happy
When we get a fill of their crap!
The female might be why they surrendered.
Males will try to protect females.
This whole thing smells like the Obama I flushed this morning....
Way to many dots in the last few days....
This event, the hostage release today, sanctions lifted, 150 billion released
We will never know how they are connected....
The female might be why the commander apologized. American men are civilized and don’t want their women raped in front of them. If given the choice of apologize of we’re going to “borrow” her for a while, who knows . . . .
This continued humiliation cost 150 billion dollars.
Something is just not right.
My guess is, as soon as they were facing hostile action, they notified their superiors who notified the nitwits in Obama’s State Department and Defense Department and they were ordered to stand down, surrender and take no hostile action. And this maniac is lying through his teeth, which need to be kicked down his throat
Obama’s lieutenants ordered them to surrender, just as they did to the Marines in Yemen. Has anyone else noticed Obama is a criminal and traitor or is it just me??????
He didn’t even try to get our boats back.
Just made a gift of them to the Iranian navy.
You, are full of Shiite, idiot Persian...
And if someone should post in response that back in 1990, Trump contributed to some Democrat,
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That same someone probably voted for Willard who not only contributed to Democrats and Planned Parenthood but opened endorsed and supported liberal Democrats like Rocky Anderson for mayor...
Our extraction teams were crying because they just learned that we lost the 12 servicemen on Farsi Island who they were sent to pick up:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3383683/posts?page=167#167
The odds of both boats breaking down at the exact same time is zero.
And, Barry along with Kerry praised Iran for how they handled the situation.
Set up to paint a picture. Trump and others ask what do we get for a $150,000,000. This little Kabuki operation creates an answer. Total hoax. And a transparent one at that.
He looks to need a RED.
Embarrassing as hell for the Navy, which is why nothing has leaked. Just a WAG, but that's where I'd put my money.
You are correct. It will come out in the investigation that they didn’t know how to use the navigation. In essence, we have sailors that don’t know how to sail. The commander of the riverine squadron will be gone, and it probably won’t stop there.
The Lieutenant in charge of these boats needs to be court martialled. He’s a Naval Academy graduate (2011) and should have had the experience to navigate the Gulf and not give up his boats. I gotta think he was doing this on purpose. The Academy has been corrupted along with the rest of the Navy. Mabus and Obama are the cause of this corruption of American military values. I think John Kelly needs to be in charge of the Navy.
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