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U.S. Sinks or Damages 6 Iran Ships in Persian Gulf Clashes (1988)
LA Times ^ | April 19th, 1988 | By JAMES GERSTENZANG

Posted on 09/16/2019 6:20:38 AM PDT by central_va

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To: central_va

You’re a big talker. Are you signing up? Or sending your son or grandson over? Iran bombed Saudi Arabia... that is Saudi Arabia’s problem, not ours.


41 posted on 09/16/2019 6:42:23 AM PDT by bigdaddy45
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To: grania
A variation on your great point:

Sure is curious timing. War Hawk Bolton is out, and here comes this oh-so-mysterious MISSILE from the North...!

The Set-Up Express, riiiiight on time, pulling into the station.

People aren't suspicious..? Wow.

The fool with the yugely bulging pockets gets an invitation delivery, what a surprise...!

42 posted on 09/16/2019 6:42:32 AM PDT by gaijin
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To: gaijin

An air strike against the Iranian af,navy and nuclear facilities is not the same as a land invasion you idiot.


43 posted on 09/16/2019 6:43:35 AM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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To: bigdaddy45
You’re a big talker. Are you signing up? Or sending your son or grandson over? Iran bombed Saudi Arabia... that is Saudi Arabia’s problem, not ours.

Does anyone with an above room temperature IQ think the only two choices the US has are an all out invasion or do nothing? Really? Has Free Republic slipped that much?

44 posted on 09/16/2019 6:46:25 AM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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To: central_va

A detached, limited Gentleman’s War is an extreeeemely sticky thing, you cross-eyed, wet-pants, slobbering slubberdegullion.


45 posted on 09/16/2019 6:47:32 AM PDT by gaijin
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To: central_va

A shame he surrendered Beirut before all this.


46 posted on 09/16/2019 6:48:20 AM PDT by Roman_War_Criminal (Like Enoch, Noah, & Lot, the True Church will soon be removed & then destruction comes forth.)
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To: central_va

Wonder if the Gipper left his playbook in the WH...


47 posted on 09/16/2019 6:49:19 AM PDT by Eric in the Ozarks (Baseball players, gangsters and musicians are remembered. But journalists are forgotten.)
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To: central_va

How it starts out:

“Hand out bread to starving Somalis”

How it ends:

“We gotta FIRST arrest all the baddies...!”

The slope is slippery? Nah, it’s greased lightning. During the brief, it’s all soooo clear. Then the plans meet reality, and it all goes to sh*t.

Special enticement:

The little guy’s d*ck is so ordinary, and YOURS? It’s YUUUUUGE...!!!!


48 posted on 09/16/2019 6:50:45 AM PDT by gaijin
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To: gaijin
A detached, limited Gentleman’s War is an extreeeemely sticky thing, you cross-eyed, wet-pants, slobbering slubberdegullion.

Quit talking about Ronald Reagan a like that. You sound like a WaPo editor.

49 posted on 09/16/2019 6:50:52 AM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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To: central_va

Good one!
Caught my attention.

I had forgotten about this little colonial dust up and application of battleship dipolmcacy.

It’s all fun and games until the US Navy shows up.


50 posted on 09/16/2019 6:55:15 AM PDT by Lowell1775
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To: central_va
Please post the requirement to do that.

The requirement is not being a dick.

51 posted on 09/16/2019 6:56:13 AM PDT by Yo-Yo ( is the /sarc tag really necessary?)
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To: Sacajaweau

You got your way you little female body part.


52 posted on 09/16/2019 7:03:36 AM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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To: central_va

You warhawks are all the same. Bomb this guy, bomb that guy... there are no consequences. Its sterile! Bomb away.

Again, not our problem. The plan should be to become energy independent (which we are very close to being), and let the Shias and Sunnis blow each other up. We’ve wasted way too many lives and way too much treasure in that part of the world already.


53 posted on 09/16/2019 7:04:13 AM PDT by bigdaddy45
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To: central_va

“A mission to decapitate...”. Curious because I could very easily see how Iranian leaders would very much construe that as an actual “Act of War’ and I could also easily see how they might react to that in “the conventional sense” and seriously undertake to kill as many Americans as they possibly could. I seem to remember a Marine Barracks in Lebanon where we apparently failed to learn the lesson previously.


54 posted on 09/16/2019 7:04:48 AM PDT by wastoute (Government cannot redistribute wealth. Government can only redistribute poverty.)
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To: wastoute

Are you a paid Iranian troll?


55 posted on 09/16/2019 7:06:56 AM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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To: bigdaddy45

Iran, the kid on the left, you the kid on the right.

56 posted on 09/16/2019 7:08:36 AM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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To: central_va

No. I’m doing my best to remember the lessons we should have all learned, especially since the anniversary of 911 was just last week. Remember how we destroyed Iraq and handed over their dictator to be hanged? And then we started 0bama’s “good” war in Afghanistan? And then remember how we learned ten years later it was the Saudis the whole time? And our own FBI (read Mueller and COmey) KNEW it the whole time and LIED to us? Boston Marathon bomber was quickly flown back to Saudi? Remember?

I’m sick of it. If this nation ever again goes to War we should insist from Day #1 what that means is killing every single one of them we can get our hands on. Until they “cry uncle” and there can never be any debate or question about who won. Because anything less never accomplishes the objective. Our grandparents knew this stuff.


57 posted on 09/16/2019 7:12:29 AM PDT by wastoute (Government cannot redistribute wealth. Government can only redistribute poverty.)
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To: wastoute

I am sick of doves (libertarian?) like you. Nobody is suggesting a land invasion of Iran. But there is a lot of military options that can be taken between an invasion and doing nothing, you are fool and a tool.


58 posted on 09/16/2019 7:21:17 AM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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To: central_va

Dove? I’m no dove. Aren’t you hearing what I have been saying? My position is that if we ever go to war again it should be the “good old fashioned” kind of war. You know, the kind where we kill so many of them they are begging for us to stop? The kind you actually win and have a parade when it is done? Does ANYONE remember those?

I would submit all we need is ONE of those kinds of wars to convince everybody that nobody wants war anymore. At least for a long, long time.


59 posted on 09/16/2019 7:28:06 AM PDT by wastoute (Government cannot redistribute wealth. Government can only redistribute poverty.)
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To: central_va

Give me that kind of war and I’ll get my old uniforms back out of the closet!


60 posted on 09/16/2019 7:29:11 AM PDT by wastoute (Government cannot redistribute wealth. Government can only redistribute poverty.)
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