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2016-01-19 Home Front: WoT

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Posted by Blossom Unains5562 2016-01-19 00:00|| || Front Page|| [3 views ] Top

#1 Given that the Iranians had them on their knees, it suggests that the Iranians were prepared to fight. I'm pretty sure they wouldn't have approached the American boat unless they felt confident they could win. So there were going to be deaths had there been a fight. I'd rather they surrender as they did and live to fight another day. Were the Americans out of comm range? They didn't call for help or to relay their status. I saw a walkie talkie on one guy's belt. How far can that reach? The other boat only? I have a feeling maybe there was an "EMP" or other similar disabling strike? If there was an EMP strike, how did the commander call for the other boat to surrender? Could such a lack of communication led to the need for a surrender at gunpoint? Were the boats towed home or driven?

We all know what happens with investigations. We'll have to wait for someone to go public after they get pi$$ed off at this administration. Probably a few months away.

Posted by gorb 2016-01-19 13:27|| 2016-01-19 13:27|| Front Page Top

#2 Iran: ‘American Sailors Started Crying After Arrest’

Posted by Blossom Unains5562 2016-01-19 13:43|| 2016-01-19 13:43|| Front Page Top

#3 The US Navy is Combat Ineffective

Posted by Blossom Unains5562 2016-01-19 13:48|| 2016-01-19 13:48|| Front Page Top

#4 Blossom - crying, expressing feelings, are GOOD things, & selected for in our sensitive society; why should the Navy be different?

Posted by Glenmore 2016-01-19 13:50|| 2016-01-19 13:50|| Front Page Top

#5 The trail after the boats were intercepted will lead to the White House and Susan Rice/ValJar. What the Lt did and said we're ordered I suspect. The back channel call to Teheran's to warn about the sanctions being frozen prompted the quick release.
The bigger question is what was being done before they were intercepted.

Posted by NoMoreBS 2016-01-19 14:12|| 2016-01-19 14:12|| Front Page Top

#6 Congress can hold hearings ....

Posted by Sven the pelter 2016-01-19 15:06|| 2016-01-19 15:06|| Front Page Top

#7 That's achieved nothing during the Obama Tyranny. Congress and the courts are essentially spineless and grovel at his feet.

Posted by Silentbrick 2016-01-19 21:54|| 2016-01-19 21:54|| Front Page Top

#8 It hasn't nearly so much to do with spinelessness as the fact that the president simply ignores them while employing his phone and his pen, it seems to me. Nor will that change so long as the bureaucrats of the executive branch obey orders.

Posted by trailing wife 2016-01-19 21:58|| 2016-01-19 21:58|| Front Page Top

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