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2008-01-09 Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Pentagon has video, audio of Strait of Hormuz incident
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Posted by gorb 2008-01-09 01:20|| || Front Page|| [11129 views ]  Top

#1 How I wish they stayed longer to get a 50 cal demonstration.
Posted by Grampaw Pheager6115 2008-01-09 09:48||   2008-01-09 09:48|| Front Page Top

#2 ...I dunno. Something about the way the USN responded - and the relatively calm way that POTUS responded as well - suggests to me that we may have had a clue something was coming.

Mike
Posted by Mike Kozlowski 2008-01-09 10:11||   2008-01-09 10:11|| Front Page Top

#3 welll there are thousands out there and it is common for a verbal response like this....but what are the ROE's....seemed danger close and if the transmission is correct the captian should be removed..we look weak...we have stated many times what our intention would be if boats came that close (ala cole)....these iranrags should of been toasted
Posted by dan 2008-01-09 10:38||   2008-01-09 10:38|| Front Page Top

#4 I assume it was Farsi they spoke. I'm glad our Navy has the iron discipline to go to open war on our timing, not Iran's.
Posted by trailing wife">trailing wife  2008-01-09 12:37||   2008-01-09 12:37|| Front Page Top

#5 Bull. This is the Cole all over again. The iran scum should have been sunk period.

Double spit
Posted by Icerigger 2008-01-09 12:46|| http://coonlakebeach.com/support_mn_troops.htm]">[http://coonlakebeach.com/support_mn_troops.htm]  2008-01-09 12:46|| Front Page Top

#6 What TW says.

Info from MNF, iiuc, is that Iran has lowered their troublemaking their, even as we have kept going after their folks. I dont believe thats them suddenly becoming "moderate" - I think thats them running scared. I think we keep them in that position, and not blow it with an incident at sea. "Dont fire unles fired upon, BUT if they mean to have a war, let it begin here" and all that.

Why they did this I dont know. Testing response maybe. Or some local Repug Guard thugs acting out of indiscipline, or even trying to manipulate politics in Teheran, maybe.
Posted by Dopey Flotle8127 2008-01-09 14:06||   2008-01-09 14:06|| Front Page Top

#7 Pardon, that should be Revolutionary Guard, of course.
Posted by Dopey Flotle8127 2008-01-09 14:07||   2008-01-09 14:07|| Front Page Top

#8 rough accented English, TW
Posted by Frank G">Frank G  2008-01-09 14:23||   2008-01-09 14:23|| Front Page Top

#9 I think the US is waiting for a very overt and undenyable act of war before they crush Iran like the treacherous bugs they are. They want to ensure there can NOT be a "misunderstanding", but without allowing Iran any type of propaganda victory, such as sinking a US warship. If I were an ordinary Iranian citizen, I think I'd move out of Bandar Abbas - say up around the northeast corner of the country, near Afghanistan, in a very isolated spot. Just a guess, but I'd bet that if anything REALLY happened, Bandar Abbas would be unlivable for anywhere from a few months to a thousand years or so.
Posted by Old Patriot">Old Patriot  2008-01-09 14:33|| http://oldpatriot.blogspot.com/]">[http://oldpatriot.blogspot.com/]  2008-01-09 14:33|| Front Page Top

#10 Testing response maybe.

Part of it. Part of it is their primitive need to count coo. But more importantly, I think it is placing the US frog in warm water. We get complacent having Iranian warcraft swarming within firing distance and one day they let loose.
Posted by ed 2008-01-09 15:53||   2008-01-09 15:53|| Front Page Top

#11 And by let loose, I don't mean by boats with Iranian markings.
Posted by ed 2008-01-09 15:58||   2008-01-09 15:58|| Front Page Top

#12 Wouldn't it be interesting if those RG fastboats mysteriously exploded some dark and stormy night while safely tied up in port? And just by coincidence, right after the explosion a sound vaguely similiar to that of a jet aircraft flying low and fast was heard?????
Posted by USN,Ret. 2008-01-09 16:30||   2008-01-09 16:30|| Front Page Top

#13 They have threatened to retaliate on American interests (& not necessarily the US Navy in the immediate vicinity) if "attacked", previously hinting they have radioactive, if not nuclear, capabilities and proxies willing to deliver. The deliberate provocation would be followed by self-justification for starting WW3. Kudos to the Navy.
Posted by Danielle 2008-01-09 16:34||   2008-01-09 16:34|| Front Page Top

#14 IRAN must be nervously twiddling/twitching their thumbs as they know Dubya = USA still has six months to a year to do take [unilateral]military action agz it. ADD TO THESE FEARS OR UNCERTAINTIES OF DUBYA'S INTENTS THE "ALTERNATIVE FUTURES FOR RUSSIA 2017" REPORT, i.e. the report's scenario where PUTIN is poten assassinated in JANUARY 2008 resulting in Russ national instability. LEST WE FERGIT, RADICAL MULLAHS, etc > BI-NATIONAL + EVEN GLOBAL MUTUAL DESTRUCTION IS TO ISLAM'S = ISLAMISM'S ADVANTAGE, BESIDES ALSO THE "OIL/RESOURCES CATACLYSM".

IOW, COROLLARY > WAR IS TO ISLAM'S = ISLAMISM'S ADVANTAGE + BENEFIT, AND IT DOESN'T REALLY MATTER WHETHER IRAN = RADIC ISLAMISM STARTS IT, OR THE USA DOES.
Posted by JosephMendiola 2008-01-09 17:39||   2008-01-09 17:39|| Front Page Top

#15 Looks like nothing happened at all. Joy rides in speed boats! Talk about making something out of nothing. Didn't realize the U.S. Navy was so easily spooked.

Course, it could just be baloney right?

Anyone have an official U.S. protest of the incident to share?

Ok then. Nothing happened.
Posted by wakeupdorks 2008-01-09 18:50||   2008-01-09 18:50|| Front Page Top

#16 Wakeupdorks, if such is your name: Does the President commenting on the subject satisfy your ludicrous question?
Posted by Excalibur 2008-01-09 19:11||   2008-01-09 19:11|| Front Page Top

#17 The Iranians learned valuable intelligence from that "little incursion", namely...1)delay times while upper ranks are brought into the loop, 2)distance to targeting parameters for the laser spotting and radar blanking, 3)that the ships 'can' be diverted by phony sea mines [possible into a laid 'real field'; and 4)freedom circumnavigated close quartered presence had chemical or biological agents been dispersed during favorable wind conditions!! And all of this not withstanding a deadpan silent ramrun into a ship at night during a storm! Send a low level coded message to Iranian Revolutionary Guards that there will be a 'dance' at the next occasion.
Posted by smn 2008-01-09 19:30||   2008-01-09 19:30|| Front Page Top

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