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2007-05-23 Syria-Lebanon-Iran

Nine US warships enter Gulf in show of force

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Posted by Anonymoose 2007-05-23 08:04|| || Front Page|| [10 views ] Top

#1 I've always wondered why some smart person doesn't run a big honkin' crude oil pipeline from Basra to Kuwait City and down the coast, then across the Emirates and the flat part of Qatar to a loading terminal on the Arabian Sea. There's a bay that looks like a good natural harbor in the middle of Qatar's east coast, about 300 miles from the nearest Iranian territory; the "big" town there is called Khaluf. It would be expensive, to be sure, but probably an easier engineering problem than the Alaska pipeline. Load all the tankers on the coast of Qatar, and the Straits of Hormuz are no longer a choke point--and the mad mullahs lose their leverage.

Posted by Mike 2007-05-23 08:44|| 2007-05-23 08:44|| Front Page Top

#2 Looked at Fox News on this at the link

Fox has idiots working for them.

The last line of the article is:

"U.S. warships have frequently collided with merchant ships in the busy shipping lanes of the Gulf."

Whaaaaaat?

Someone needs to tell them to keep lies like that out of the news articles.

Posted by Snerb K. Layes5779 2007-05-23 09:58|| 2007-05-23 09:58|| Front Page Top

#3 Looked at Fox News on this at the link

Fox has idiots working for them.

The last line of the article is:

"U.S. warships have frequently collided with merchant ships in the busy shipping lanes of the Gulf."

Whaaaaaat?

Someone needs to tell them to keep lies like that out of the news articles.

Posted by Ulailing the Tiny7379 2007-05-23 09:59|| 2007-05-23 09:59|| Front Page Top

#4 Snerb, not standing up for Fox, but that article is from the Associated Press. No Fox contributors to it. 'Course, Fox should have read and edited it before posting.

Got a neighbor whose young Marine son on the Bonhomme Richard. They had 3 days in Singapore. Marines were told, buddy system, and one Marine gets into trouble, you all come aboard! He and a bud were renting a hotel room for $320! But, were excited about it.

Great pic --

The USS John C. Stennis (CVN 74), USS Nimitz (CVN 68), and USS Bonhomme Richard (LHD 6) strike groups steam through the Gulf of Oman.

Posted by Sherry">Sherry 2007-05-23 10:27|| 2007-05-23 10:27|| Front Page Top

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