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Iran vessels in 'high speed intercept' of U.S. ship: defense official
Reuters ^
| Aug 24, 2016
| Idrees Ali
Posted on 08/24/2016 1:48:20 PM PDT by george76
Four vessels from Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps "harassed" a U.S. destroyer on Tuesday by carrying out a "high speed intercept" in the vicinity of the Strait of Hormuz ... came within 300 yards of the USS Nitze in an action that was "unsafe and unprofessional."
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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: attemptedintercept; bhodod; hormuz; intercept; iran; iranaggression; navy; obamasfault; shipmovement; straitofhormuz; usnavy; ussnitze
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posted on
08/24/2016 1:48:21 PM PDT
by
george76
To: george76
So buying them off didn’t work so well Obozo and Kerry, did it????
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posted on
08/24/2016 1:49:42 PM PDT
by
Enchante
(Hillary's new campaign slogan: "Guilty as hell, free as a bird!! Laws are for peasants!")
To: george76
Only in obamas regime can 4 boats hassle one of our destroyers.
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posted on
08/24/2016 1:50:25 PM PDT
by
ColdOne
(poochie... Tasha 2000~3/14/11~TrumpÂ’s got this, Barry. Go back to your golf game.)
To: george76
Why don’t we just take out their whole damned navy and air force at once? Oh, right, we don’t have a real Commander in Chief.
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posted on
08/24/2016 1:51:06 PM PDT
by
Enchante
(Hillary's new campaign slogan: "Guilty as hell, free as a bird!! Laws are for peasants!")
To: george76
I think I would have lit them up with that gun on the front of the ship and dropped a few harpoons to finish it...
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posted on
08/24/2016 1:51:53 PM PDT
by
Vendome
(Don't take life so seriously-you won't live through it anyway - "Enjoy Yourself" ala Louis Prima)
To: ColdOne
Only in obamas regime can 4 boats hassle one of our destroyers.....Why do they do this? Because they MAY.
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posted on
08/24/2016 1:52:56 PM PDT
by
Safetgiver
(Islam makes barbarism look genteel.)
To: ColdOne
as Duterte, President of the Phillipines, just told China.............”a day of reckoning is coming”.
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posted on
08/24/2016 1:52:58 PM PDT
by
Cen-Tejas
(it's the debt bomb stupid)
To: george76
Almost time for Operation Praying Mantis II.
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posted on
08/24/2016 1:53:14 PM PDT
by
Kudsman
(Hillary has perfected the politics of personal profit and theft. DJTrump 6/22/16)
To: george76
Betcha that stops one day into a Trump presidency.
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posted on
08/24/2016 1:54:27 PM PDT
by
Da Coyote
To: george76
As you all can see, President Obama is salivating at the thought of finally waving that White Flag of Surrender to ISLAM!!!
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posted on
08/24/2016 1:57:38 PM PDT
by
eyeamok
(destruction of government records.)
To: george76
Try taunting them next January, tough guys.
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posted on
08/24/2016 1:57:47 PM PDT
by
Paulie
(America without Christ is like a Chemistry book without the periodic table.)
To: george76
USS Nitze has 2 25mm chain-driven weapons - seems like letting the boys have live fire practice would be good.
To: ColdOne
At least this time they didn’t surrender.
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posted on
08/24/2016 1:59:43 PM PDT
by
GMMC0987
To: george76
A lot less than the Russians did during the cold war.
Fire up r2d2 and cut them in half.
To: george76
3 football fields is dangerous for a ship underway.
They should have been lit up.
Better yet, capture them and demand a $152 billion ransom.
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posted on
08/24/2016 2:01:13 PM PDT
by
exit82
(Road Runner sez:" Let's Make America Beeping Great Again! Beep! Beep!")
To: Da Coyote
“Betcha’ that stops one day into a Trump Presidency.”
Yeah. Remember the Iranian hostages one day after Reagan got in. They would still be there without Reagan. Lordy, I miss that man!
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posted on
08/24/2016 2:06:13 PM PDT
by
kiltie65
To: exit82
Iran is not stupid enough to pay that.
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posted on
08/24/2016 2:10:32 PM PDT
by
SpinnerWebb
(Winter is coming)
To: george76
“Unprofessional”?
What would make the Iranians “professional”? Launching torpedoes?
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posted on
08/24/2016 2:16:53 PM PDT
by
Jim Noble
(The polls can have a strong influence on the weak-minded)
To: george76
One little ZOT from the nice little gattling gun they got on board and the problem would have been solved.
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posted on
08/24/2016 2:32:01 PM PDT
by
crz
To: george76
A proper response would be to sink all 4 vessels and send some ordnance to the officers’ quarters at the base from whence they came.
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posted on
08/24/2016 2:35:47 PM PDT
by
Two Kids' Dad
(((( Hillary Clinton is a felon. As yet unindicted, but a felon nonetheless ))))
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