US Navy Vessel Fires on Boat in Persian Gulf; One Dead

How'bout a Viet Nam War draft dodger praising the Viet Cong ... in the midst of World War Duhbya in Iraq for chris' sakes ...


President Bush was greeted in the former palace of the French governor general of Indochina by President Nguyen Minh Triet.

November 17, 2006

 

irony is a bunch of journalists who could not navigate a paddle boat across a city park lake speculating on the actions of a US Navy warship Captain. If there was negligence the Navy will handle it appropriately. As ex military if the small craft ignored warnings did indeed ignore all warnings then the action was appropriate. Saw a small craft get fired on once before. Luckily for him but the US Marine on that 50 managed to put his burst across the bow. Found out later from the Coast Guard it was a drunk college kid showing off for his friends. (*)(*)(*)(*) near got them killed instead. Bet the kids dad was pissed when the boat was impounded though LOL

 

Mr 'Rat Face': "OK now listen up everyone! Go get us some boats we can dress up like fishing/pleasure boats and dress your navy guys up in anything but Iranian navy outfits and whatever you do don't fly our flag. Then go out and do whatever it takes to provoke any incident from the US navy. If some of our guys get killed so much the better. Then we can claim the US navy is killing innocents. Yes yes I understand trying to explain how/why these 'peaceful' fishermen/tourists are traveling at fifty knots screaming directly towards a US navy ship then veering off then doing it again and again is going to be a bit tough but most of the people in the country would believe the US navy is actually aliens from another planet if we tell them it's true so who cares. The 'West' never believes a thing we say anyway, for obvious reasons so who cares about them. It's a win-win for us."
As for anything any Iranian bought UAE 'cough' official claims you'd have more luck getting the truth out of 'Bagdad Bob'.

 

The Iranians are now claiming the boat was simply a fishing boat with simple fishermen aboard. Tiny problem: As an ex commercial fisherman I have a couple of questions: Any one ever heard of a 'fishing boat' that could turn fifty knots? Why didn't the 'fishermen' have any fishing gear aboard? Has any one ever seen a 'fishing boat' approach a US navy ship at high speed then break off then repeatedly continue to do the same thing? Maybe the 'fishermen' were looking for a big school of tuna hiding under the navy ship. LOL Anyway, who cares. The US navy and any one with an IG higher than room temperature is perfectly aware of what Mr. Rat Face et al are attempting. The best part is the day is very fast coming where in Mr. Rat Face et al will all be making out with fifty middle aged hairy sweaty stinky virgins or a hand full of 'white raisons'. Either why they'll be incinerated.

 

How exactly did Dems start wars where we were attacked first?

 

Pssst...we weren't attacked in WW1

 

Tell that to survivors of the Lusitania.

 

You mean the BRITISH liner that was carrying war materiel? (Which, by the way, made it a legitimate target.) The ship ordered to reduce speed (a photo taken shortly before her sinking shows no smoke from her forward funnel, indicating cold boilers), the ship that had her escort recalled? The Lusitania was INTENDED to provoke the response it provoked.

 

Ya, a ship sailing thru hostile waters, carrying war material, where two waring nations were fighting over, gets struck, man what are the chances!?!?

Ya, hardly a act of war. Nice history revision.

 

Truman's term ended in 1953. Eisenhower was President in 1955, when we first "put US boots on the ground."

I'm talking about after he expanded it. He realized it wasn't working and started to put out plans to end it. Then he died and barely four days later, Johnson reversed Kennedy's disengagement order (issued a month and ten days before his death) and escalated the war.

 

JFK did not start Vietnam. American soldiers touched Vietnamese land in 1955, during the Eisenhower presidency.

And you're completely ignoring post-1960s wars. Like Reagan's invasion of Grenada and bombing of Libya, for example.

 

...both of which were started by Chairman Bush.

 

Japan should be grateful to the US for the Hiroshima or Nagasaki bombings - because the Imperial Japanese govt had planned to force all Japanese including women and children, because they had a strict policy of death before surrender - the bombs intimidated them into surrendering before more lives were lost.

Libs as usual fail to understand history. But as usual America turns out to be the hero in reality, and only the bad guy in their ganja-induced la la land.

 

You are demented. The creator of the atomic bomb - Albert Einstein - regretted it once he found out what it could do.

Which goes to show that YOU are the one who doesn't understand history.

 

You're missing the point ... the B-29 itself was an advancement to weapons delivery systems who's invention was simply based with regards to the success and failures of bombing raids over Germany ...

Truman and his cabinet conducted themselves as *Founding Father wisemen* with regards to the detonation of a nuclear device (s) ... the Manhattan Project itself was a 6 year project (see Einsteins warning to Roosevelt with regards to the Nazi discovery and purification of uranium-235) ...

This was simply of because of common sense and later confirmed after the damage ... they had no idea of the extent of the damage that would be caused by the detonation of a nuclear device ...

No conservative has ever used common sense about any war they've started & conducted resulting in catastrophic casualties ... there's a reason for this ...

 

No, I'd like the UK taxpayer to pay reparations to them and African-Americans for imperialism and slavery.


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Albert Enstein isn't the creator of the a-bomb. Oppenheimer is.

 

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It's time to take another relevance pill...Try to keep up.

 

He didn't physically create it, no, but without him Oppenheimer would still be in his mother's basement.

 

American advisors went to Vietnam in 1955. JFK expanded the war to use of special forces and ground troops, and LBJ went ape (*)(*)(*)(*) crazy, and sent up to half a million troops.

There's a world of difference.

 

No, the advisors were sent over five years earlier, in 1950.

That's correct, although it omits the fact that Kennedy signed a withdrawal order October 1963, a month before he died.