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1 posted on 03/27/2007 12:50:01 PM PDT by SmithL
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bttt


2 posted on 03/27/2007 12:51:37 PM PDT by txhurl
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Enemy stared down. Check

Saber rattled. Check.

3 posted on 03/27/2007 12:51:48 PM PDT by TChris (The Democrat Party: A sewer into which is emptied treason, inhumanity and barbarism - O. Morton)
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Ours is a toothless navy. Fun to watch them flex in any case.


4 posted on 03/27/2007 12:52:36 PM PDT by zarf (Her hair was of a dank yellow, and fell over her temples like sauerkraut......)
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Can the Iranian Navy come out and play?


5 posted on 03/27/2007 12:53:00 PM PDT by mutley
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...but will they actually be used for anything more than a show?


6 posted on 03/27/2007 12:53:15 PM PDT by ElectricStrawberry (27th Infantry Regiment....cut in half during the Clinton years......WOLFHOUNDS!!!!)
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F/A-18 fighter jets roared off the Stennis' flight deck all day, mounting a dozen rapid-fire training sorties against imaginary enemy ships and aircraft. A second task force with the carrier USS Dwight D. Eisenhower also took part in the drills.

That's one bad-ass carbon footprint!

7 posted on 03/27/2007 12:53:35 PM PDT by Night Hides Not (Chuck Hagel makes Joe Biden look like a statesman!)
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11 posted on 03/27/2007 12:55:47 PM PDT by SkyPilot
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Revvin up mah engines, shiftin' into overdrive... (dah dah dah-dah)


26 posted on 03/27/2007 1:02:44 PM PDT by ichabod1 ("Liberals read Karl Marx. Conservatives UNDERSTAND Karl Marx." Ronald Reagan)
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.......BITCHEN......!


32 posted on 03/27/2007 1:08:38 PM PDT by PEACE ENFORCER (Liberals; People That are So Open minded Their Brains Have Fallen Out !)
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Gee, maybe this exercise will help the Iranian mullahs read up on the Geneva Convention. Think we'll be hearing less about interrogations and spy trials for uniformed British forces.


36 posted on 03/27/2007 1:17:46 PM PDT by romanesq
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The maneuvers with 15 warships and more than 100 aircraft were sure to heighten tensions with Iran, which has frequently condemned the U.S. military presence off its coast and is in a faceoff with the West over its nuclear program and its capture of a British naval team.

Is this supposed to be news or "analysis"?

Either way, it is nonsense. The authors are reading the tired old "Blame America First" script that the news media has followed since the start of the Cold War.

Capturing 15 British sailors and marines heightened tensions in the region, which is undoubtedly why the Iranians did it.

37 posted on 03/27/2007 1:23:57 PM PDT by Logophile
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50 posted on 03/27/2007 2:22:51 PM PDT by magslinger (Submission? That's a bit of a problem!)
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Our Military has the muscle, but our politicians lack the guts. So you can rest assured we will do nothing...
66 posted on 03/27/2007 4:12:28 PM PDT by Sprite518
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Two carriers in the Persian Gulf to act like two faggot musclemen.. all muscle no brains..
If one carrier gets sunk Bush should be impeached..

Iran is not impressed and neither am I..
Iran already knows our Congress has been taken over by wimps or traitors..

74 posted on 03/27/2007 5:48:53 PM PDT by hosepipe (CAUTION: This propaganda is laced with hyperbole....)
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A second task force with the carrier USS Dwight D. Eisenhower also took part in the drills.

The "Ike" was in these same waters back in 1979 - 1980 during the U.S. Embassy (Tehran) hostage crises. She was on station for most of the nine months that she was deployed. Except for the present day 'Skipper' older officers and NCO's most of the crew weren't born when the 'Ike' sailed these waters some 27 years ago. The reason I know, my brother-in-law, now a senior Captain with a major airline flew the Hawkeye E-2C off the decks of the 'Ike' during that deployment.

75 posted on 03/27/2007 5:57:54 PM PDT by BluH2o
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