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US Begins "Big Stick" Negotiations With Iran: Sends The "Big Ships" Into The Persian Gulf
Following its "visual to the world" message last night by test-firing an ICBM, America appears to shifting to 'big stick' diplomacy. Following Iran's naval drills last week (attacking a replica US aircraft carrier), Sputnik News reports that as the nuclear negotiations between Iran and the P5+1 nations come to a head, the US begins Eagle Resolve, a massive military exercise in the Persian Gulf. Eagle Resolve will involve tactical exercises from the US Army, Marines, and various other military branches "with simulated portions of the exercise based on a fictional adversary." Careful to ensure Obama does not lose his Nobel Peace Prize, a CENTCOM official explained, "the exercise is not intended as a signal to Iran."
With the support of regional allies, the US moved nearly 3,000 military personnel, as well as "air, land, sea, and special operations components," into the gulf. Taking place just off the coast of Kuwait, the exercise will continue through the end of the month, and is meant to improve the military’s response time should an incident occur in the region.
"Eagle Resolve 2015 will consist of a week-long series of simulated 'injects' to exercise participants' ability to respond as a multinational headquarters staff, followed by a series of tactical demonstrations of land, maritime, and air forces from several nations," reads a fact sheet provided to the Washington Free Beacon by US Central Command. "The exercise ends with a senior leader seminar to foster an environment for commanders to discuss issues of regional interest."
Eagle Resolve will involve tactical exercises from the US Army, Marines, and various other military branches to test readiness in air defense, border security, counterterrorism, as well as "consequence management." These include amphibious landing exercises and ship-based search and seizure operations.
Officials insist that the exercise has been in the planning stages for the last 14 months, and has nothing to do with the Iranian nuclear negotiations.
"The exercise is not intended as a signal to Iran," a CENTCOM official said, according to the Free Beacon. "If there’s any message at all, it’s that all participants have a common interest in regional security."
"It’s important to point out that this is a recurring exercise, with planning for this year’s exercise beginning over a year ago," the official added. "The focus of the exercise is on bolstering capabilities useful in a wide range of scenarios to help preserve and bolster regional security, with simulated portions of the exercise based on a fictional adversary."
Still, it’s hard to ignore which nation that “fictional adversary” may be in reference to. On Saturday, former CIA Director General David Petraeus called Iran the greatest long-term threat to stability in the region.
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I'm sure Obama doesn't know about it. Maybe if CNN reports it then he will find out.
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Yeah, I bet Hillary takes credit for it..
What does it matter?
I'm looking at the picture again and thinking "those are our BIG ships?" Tender ship, an Aegis class, I think and one of those helicopter carriers followed by the little duckies.
Where's the real hardware? Not in frame, I guess.
Putting a carrier group in the Gulf is a dumb idea if hostilities are about to break out.
The fact you can't see one is telling.
I would say the money system that we currently have is the biggest long term threat, but I'm just a retard.
Did Larry Silverstein recently lease some of these boats?
Let's hope the Navy learned some things about warfare:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Millennium_Challenge_2002
pods
What scares me the most is that the lunatic in Chief has purged so much of the top military brass anything is possible. He has removed the very people that stop the start of ww3.
He mostly removed the ones who wouldn"t fire on the American people.
I agree, but even a corpse can lash out in spasm.
Our Navy is in denial.
Aircraft carriers are sitting ducks.
Wake the fu.k up, WWII happened over 70 years ago!!
It's going to take a lot of American lives for the poop head Admirals to change their ways.
I say load an aircraft carrier with Congress and the White House and send them to the coast of Iran!!
The Persian Gulf is just a glorious bath tub; the perfect place for a naval ambush. There is just another maritime area with similar characteristics (almost closed sea, very easy to block): The Black Sea. Incidentally, NATO is playing its silly games in there too, as we speak...
A single French sub disabled pretty much our entire fleet in a training drill a few weeks ago. Our military "might" ain't what it used to be. You can thank the Fuhrer for that.
The office of Military Intelligence has been vacant since 1998. Instead we have the office of Military Propaganda which relies on the spirit of the enterprise versus the merits.
The Persian Gulf is a death trap to the Carrier navy. Diesel subs, mines, underwater obstacles. shore based portable missles, fast attack boats with should launched missles just to name a few.
Exactly, and then there was the Russian helicopter that used some sort of localized EMP device to completely disable one of our naval ships a few months ago. Americans have put too much faith in our ability to dominate other super powers militarily.
Oh oh.. I just remembered Guccifer's remarks about detonating a nuke inside Chicago in 2015 - as a pretext false flag to invading Iran, and the permanent election of Obama to a shadow FEMA martal law government.. But if you are going to invade Iran first you have to position the military assets to do the strike.
Parading the ships through the channel is like a fighter bowing right before the match.
Saphir - of La Royale
USN attack submarines have routinely sunk the Air Craft Carrier in Naval War games since the late 1950's. By the 70's the submarine was able to appoach and sink the Carrier with regularity, much depending on the sea conditions in the operational zone.
Clearly, the submarine threat is a huge danger to USN Carrier Task Forces. Especially if the enemy knows where the USN Carrier will be operating.
In that case, the enemy Submarine goes to the known zone of operations, goes silent, and just sits making no noise, and right under a thermal layer in teh water column. Sitting silent, there is nearly zero chance it will be detected. Then it waits, waits for a chance. The better intelligence on operational zones of the carrier, the more likely the enemy sub kills the Carrier in an ambush position.
I wonder where Israel's very quiet diesel-electric Dolphins are. The Israelis have prior form on running false flag attacks against USN ships.
On the contrary. It's a great idea if you want to provoke some scared 23-year-old Iranian pilot into giving you an excuse to start the planned Iran carpet-bombing and Tomahawk party.
The Carl Vinson is the only one in the Gulf today - fighting fake ISIS along with the Charled de Gaulle. There use to be two U.S. aircraft carrier groups in the Gulf for years until they axed one last year. The politicians are alread crying about putting a second one back there again. I suppose our recent re-supplying al Qaeda in Yemen would be a good excuse for that (by Washington's calculation, not mine).
American Carrier groups are built to defend against air attack of all kinds. But nobody knows how really effective the radars, missiles and guns would be once the shooting begins. Iran would be mad to launch a single form of attack, as it would clearly be defeated. But if a carefully planed joint effort was made, then we just can't know. Iraq ideally would launch a whole host of old outdated anti shipping missiles, which they have plenty of, and include a handful of their very best new anti shipping missiles with this attack. Coordinate this air attack to coincide with an attempt by Irans submarines to approach the task force.
USN anti missile technology is very good. But Russia's most modern missiles are designed to defeat this very defense. Only when the two systems are launched will we know.
From the 2002 Millennium Challenge war games in the Gulf
Red is Iran. Blue US
What if Iran goes back to old school Tactics to counter US tech "superiority"
Red used a fleet of small boats to determine the position of Blue's fleet by the second day of the exercise. . In a preemptive strike, Red launched a massive salvo of cruise missiles that destroyed sixteen warships]. This included one aircraft carrier, ten cruisers and five of six amphibious ships. An equivalent success in a real conflict would have resulted in the deaths of over 20,000 service personnel. Soon after the cruise missile offensive, another significant portion of Blue's navy was "sunk" by an armada of small Red boats, which carried out both conventional and suicide attacks that capitalized on Blue's inability to detect them as well as expected.
USN anti missile technology is very good . Really ? Enlighten me what all stuff they use . Iranians use rusian subs and exported version of Shkval . mind that .
Indeed Winston. To quote the last Admiral to use Carriers in a real naval conflict. Your admiral Sandy Woodward, "The job of a carrier admiral is to never put his ships into a position where they can be shoot at, but to deploy forward the carrier's airwing to do the job."
This was in response to claims Woodward was holding back his two carriers in the Falklands invasion. He laid back and went forward only to launch and recover attack wings when he felt it safe. As he told the complainers, "If I lose a carrier, I lose the war. I can afford to lose some Frigates or landing ships, I can not afford to lose a carrier."
So YES, those USN Carriers should never enter the straights. Only a bloody fool would do it.
The modern aircraft carrier consists of a metal hull, packed with high explosives and two (2) nuclear reactors.
You're just giving the Iranians more targets to shoot at.
Actually being there while it was a War Zone, I concur.
Davey_Jones had the Surface Actions Groups (sans the Nuke Cruisers - CGNs) and some Air Support handle the our Convoys in the Gulf during the Iran-Iraq War; but Team_USA pulled it off during the 1st Gulf War since Saddam didn't have much of a Navy and they were at the deep end of the Gulf.
IRN was always a different story. We had a few conflicts with them during our Convoy Runs. There's a good deal of Traffic going through those "Dire Straits".
Mines, Small Boats, Torpedoes, Sea Skimmers, and now, Drones.
It's going to be pretty nasty if things go Hot.
Which reminds me to Tip my Hat to the Crew of the Josephus Daniels. They had a T-Shirt Made - depicting an emptied bottle of "Jack Daniels", with the Label modifed to "Josephus Daniels", 100% Persian Gulf Waters. There was a Silkworm Missile stuck inside at the shoulder. The motto on the Bottom read,
"We drank the whole Bottle; but we didn't eat the Worm".
Sadly, it won't be that easy this time around...
A more honest and straightforward name would have been Operation_Reef_Builder
What is that ship on the right? Never seen a superstructure like that before(was in the Navy for six years back in the mid to late 80's). Must have a huge radar cross section might as well paint a bulls eye on it.
Te big one on the right in front is a supply vessel. Most likely a tanker. I was a West Coaster for 6 years. I've been in the Navy for 17 years. Cheers!
Royal Fleet Auxiliary ships Cardigan Bay and Largs Bay are part of a class of four ships - LSD (A) - built to support amphibious assaults. At 16,000 tons they are capable of carrying a whole Royal Marine Commando in an emergency although with facilities for 350 commandos under normal conditions.
http://images.frompo.com/i/bay-class-landing-ships
Me - USN Amphibs - 60-63
They have had RMC sitting off Bahrain for a while
https://www.dvidshub.net/image/937956/imcmex-2013
They are not trying to hide.
http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/library/policy/army/fm/55-50/Ch5.htm
Boats in the bathtub, little green Army Men on the floor.
Expensive set of toys for junior and his pals.
Drain the tub! To your room! No dinner!
"little green Army Men on the floor."
Marines do Amphib Assaults - Army Men are Ground Pounders.
Amphib Operation with Mine Sweepers ... "Where the fleet goes - we've been"
The one on the right is a LSD (A) British Amphib support assault ship.
yeah...its like playing russian roulette with our aircraft carriers,,,,,which one will get hit?
Gotta drive that ol' BDI up.
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yup.....thanks for the cheap metal
by price, if you mean US dollars, yes, but in other currencies like the Euro, gold is up!
Substitue Operation Irani Freedom for Iraqi Freedom and the sheeple will never know the difference.
Isn't it about time we got some payback for the Persians bombing Pearl Harbor?
It was an honest mistake, no one thought their sandstone planes could fly that far.
except this time the russians will attack our ship in the persian gulf and it will be the NEW pearl harbor
Isn't that called the Carter Doctrine?
This guys entire fucking presidency has been a dumpster fire. Why not start WWIII on his way out the door? What does he care anyway? He's just doing as he's told.
I'm sure a major black swan and martial law are on the agenda.
We already got the Black Swan in office,,, still working on Martial Law.
I think you meant black CON.
obama is threatening the israelis, consider why the congressional reception of netanyahoo was so over the top cheering. because obama is threatening to allow the un to do whatever to israel. the israelis will false flag the us to blame the iranians if they must. OR, they will allow and even assist, isis to hit the us to an "acceptable" degree to shock us into getting the obama regime back on to the israeli side. OBAMA acts for the iranians, about the un, israel will do something, or not stop something they find out about involving those that want to hit the us. obama is clearly off the israeli control about this, and the israelis WILL do something about it. congress cheered, but cant stop obama. we be fucked. thanks o ! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w25xghugIdg&spfreload=1
Congressional leadership is compromised, so is the Senate.
What's playing out in DC and Europe is nothing more than the age-old battle between the Jewish Left and Right.
Clearly, at the highest levels of control, they are still fighting for supremecy, and the losers will be genocided.
We are but pawns in this nuclear game, and they will Samson themselves - and us - before either side looks to lose.
Right? Amazing how he still has a 40ish approval rating. Clearly all niigurz and Mexicants
The Force is strong with the Free Shit Army.
There are plenty of white women libs and the men that want to have sex with them (why I have no idea). That add to that 40%.
Saw a black once say to a white girl.."if you dont give me your number you are racist"..of course she gave it to him.
Hahahaha
What makes you think the number was correct?
Who do you trust for an honest 40% poll rating?
It's probably worse than Congress at 7%.
If Romney was right that 47% just suck off the tit, that means that even the Free Shit Army are drifting off his jock at 40%.
agree. see his lastest "iranian new year" message to the iranians? He has done this every year as president. He certainly does not order the military around. commander in "chief"? no no no, that job left the white house how long ago? ww1?
His level of decision making is restricted to 9 or 18 holes.
So do you think this is a two or three wood Mr. President?
That fucking tool's golf game is the only thing about him that isn't sub-par.
is that subpar joke an original? Kudos to you if so
...on him?
OT - Looks like Germany and France found out that there will be consequences for interfering in Ukraine. Not even a mayday during eight minutes of "we're going down" time.
much have been sabotage . no distress call and at 38,000 could've have glided for 30-40 mins.
If Petwaeus said it, it must be twue.
Make that MS-DNC. FBI Sharpton, Madcow and Larry O'Donnell still are selling Hope 'n' Change. Even as their ratings circle the bowl
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Eagle Resolve. Hahahahha.
That's better than any of the bullshit campaign names they came up with when I was in the Gulf.
"The first seven preparations were complete failures. But then we had success with... PREPARATION H!"
QW, quantitative war.
If the military truly had Eagle Resolve, they would have Eagle Eye too and
be able to see that Michelle has a penis bandying about underneath
"her" clothes. Just as Joan Rivers,....err...nix that.
Fish in a barrel.
Seriously. It's kinda funny to think that any nation with ties to Russia would be even a little scared of an aircraft carrier. It's a bit like watching the first Nightmare on Elm Street; scary when it came out in the 80's; kinda campy-harmless at this point.
Almost forgot abut Iran, that's another conflict we're not done starting yet.
pathetic....
just cant accept the dollars death and the end of the empire...
hope all u "murican's" r proud to me "murican's".....
It's not as fun as it used to be, Kaiser.
no it aint...
its depressing cause we got to live in this shit in real time...
if i didnt have family depending on me i would have pulled a Joe Stack a long time ago...
I am not an American...just a person who happens to have been born in
America...just like the unfortunates who are born with mental retardation.
Fuck me - when is this shit gonna stop...??? I thought Paul Craig Roberts was being somewhat over-the-top in his writings of late, but I'm rethinking that...
When there is no life left. Fuck's sake, even in our fantasies like Star Trek where there was no resource competition, humans still found folks to have wars with...
Didn't Star Trek happen after a global war that nearly wiped out the entire human population?
We have always been at war with Uranus!
In that war, all the Parasites were eliminated.
Note that the deep-cover cockroaches are the hardest but most important to find.
Give it time, we'll get there.
"Space Seed" explained what the war was about.
Picard could order Earl Grey tea from a computer but they still haven't found a cure for male pattern baldness?
Fuck Star Trek
Paul C. is not making a fortune writing those articles. That should tell you something right there.
PCR is getting somewhat hysterical because the situation calls for hysterics. Everywhere all you see and hear is WAR War war...
That man knows his shit.
The Saker interviewed PCR today, excellent.
http://thedailycoin.org/?p=23153
http://www.paulcraigroberts.org/2015/03/23/washington-intend-war-russia-...
"if the russians and chinese do not expect a preemptive (nuclear) attack they will be destroyed".
it really all does boil down to that.
Russia has publicly stated they expect it, and Iran considers themselves at war with US/Israel already. I would be surprised if China did not believe something similar.
Duplicate.
Excellent? It's fuckin' EPIC. PCR opines on 9/11, and it gets even better. Saker is a hell of an interviewer.
Sitting ducks.
The Persian Gulf is like a bathtub for our aircraft carriers. I'm sure the Russians have fixed up the Iranians with some dandy carrier killer missiles. I guess it's all about making Bibi happy though.
Putin has refused to even honor a contract to sell Iran anti air missiles, no reason to expect he sold them anti ship anything.
Russia voted FOR the sanctions against Iran.
yeah, but that changed after Ukraine. You can thank Obama:-) Iran will now get even more modern anti air missiles from Russia and much more toys. Say it again: Thank you, Obama!
Tomorrow, always tomorrow. There's going to be a big reaction - tomorrow. Putin is going to do something big and bad tomorrow.
Ukraine has been going on some time now. Putin does nothing in the middle east or in Uke.
Fictional Adversary?????
Maybe since Israel is a fictional country it could be them...
One can dream can't one???
On the brink of massive kinetic action, I presume.
Israel Spied on Iran Nuclear Talks With U.S. Ally’s snooping upset White House because information was used to lobby Congress to try to sink a dealSoon after the U.S. and other major powers entered negotiations last year to curtail Iran’s nuclear program, senior White House officials learned Israel was spying on the closed-door talks.
The spying operation was part of a broader campaign by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s government to penetrate the negotiations and then help build a case against the emerging terms of the deal, current and former U.S. officials said. In addition to eavesdropping, Israel acquired information from confidential U.S. briefings, informants and diplomatic contacts in Europe, the officials said.
The espionage didn’t upset the White House as much as Israel’s sharing of inside information with U.S. lawmakers and others to drain support from a high-stakes deal intended to limit Iran’s nuclear program, current and former officials said.
“It is one thing for the U.S. and Israel to spy on each other. It is another thing for Israel to steal U.S. secrets and play them back to U.S. legislators to undermine U.S. diplomacy,” said a senior U.S. official briefed on the matter.
http://www.wsj.com/articles/israel-spied-on-iran-talks-1427164201
Russia and Iran may be ready to rumble.
Raise your hand if you would be absolutely shocked to learn that Israel has assets inside the Iranian negotiating team.
that would be france.
Hey at least we're still good at something.
Oh c'mon!
Don't make us guess..
I wonder if they will let the surrender monkeys in this time - since they blew up all the US ships last time i think they might be asked to stay home!
The only question is will it be an American, Israeli, Iranian, or Russian sub responsible for the sneak attack on this fleet?
I hope the traitor protects his flanks.
But since he is a traitor, I don't expect him to defend the nation.
I think he wants the enemy to kill them all.
When the attack comes, choose wisely.
Knee jerk patriotism could get you killed.
Like all the first responders on, and after 911.
It's safe to breathe in all that dust?
Really, is it safe?
NWO is getting ready to set the US on fire as well. They are F'n idiots to try to fight the entire world all at the same time. But maybe they aren't and instead need to have the US blown up as they sit offshore.
Israel might have a new way to shore up US support for an attack on Iran. Get McCain on the blower!
Strap McCain to the bowsprit bring 'er up to ramming speed.
Or just keel-hull that little chicken wing bastard
gl with that...
Is that the USS Liberty or the USS Forrestal in that flotilla?
did someone say wet start?
All this floating hardware/gun platforms offers an easy target should something go wrong and hostilities break out with this hypothetical enemy. If this indeed somekind of highly visible big stick for Iran's benefit, I'd say that TPTB should start ordering the body bags now. Interesting point about Obama learning about this from CNN. Now we all know this is a sarc comment, but the truth is that the Obama administration, like the Bush one that preceded it, is riven with factions of all kinds who seemingly conduct their own policies without reference to the White House, viz Miz Nuland e.g., but there are lots more besides her cabal and it will be interesting to see who, faced with a keen sense of deprivation at the US's global reversals, actually goes for a home grown Samson Option. Sic transit Amerika!
USS Liberty x 1,000
David Petraeus has his nuts in a vice and will say ANYTHING they tell him to. With Satanyahoo now confirmed with full support from CONgress, the movement to tighten the box around IRAN continues in earnest...let's see what Russia and China will do.
Maybe a box around the box....
Top Three Most Absurd Things in the universe Award goes to....
!) Peace Prize for the Bamster
2) Gay 'Marriage'
3) Bush/Clinton 2016 candidates for POTUSy.
4) Sam Smith's stupid, whiny voice on: "Stay,,,"
The jury is back,, the USSA is in full insanity mode>>>>> all prepare accordingly.
Netanyahu will hit them in a FF.
The stage is set for Obozo's surrender of the US to the UN.
It's really just a formality for you, the American idiot.
Prepare yourselves for a shot to the belly.
The ultimate betrayal that makes Judas look like a Saint.
Young fools.
It is hard to judge Judas harshly. He saw his error and responded accordingly. Will anyone of that vein behave the same today or will they live happily ever after on an island that is upwind of the continental US?
Easy targets for an air burst.
When the Japanese attacked Peal Harbor many ships were in port. Probably want to spread the targets.
All the obsolete ships were left in port at Pearl Harbor. The submarine nets were removed even after sinking a Jap sub the day before
FDR committed treason to get the US into war just like Cheney/Rummy/Wolfy/Rice killed 3000 for th e Oil Wars since
PS I don't believe Shrub knew as it was going down
Dear Obama, how many more countries will you manage to piss of? Americans should not be suprised then, if most of the world turns against them. It is already happening. For example the entire South America is aligning with Russia. In Europe, Germany, France and Italy are irresistibly pulled towards Russia. And remember, Iran has a defense pact not only with Russia but also with China. Is the USA really prepared to take on the entire world??? Well, it seems the USA politicians will want to try.
many have forgotten the lies of the mcain rabbi
we must never forget the zionist satanic talmudick crimes inflicted on the uss liberty
Terrified US Aircraft Carrier Flees From Russian Subs To UK Safety
"...today that three Russian nuclear-powered Akula-class submarines belonging to the 24th Submarine Division of the Northern Fleet (NF) successfully “war-gamed” the American aircraft carrier USS Theodore Roosevelt [photo 2nd left] causing it to “flee in terror” towards the waters off the Hampshire coast in the United Kingdom.
To how this US aircraft carrier was “disabled” by the Northern Fleet’s attack submarines, this report says, was due to the Federations successful implementation of “magrav technology” weapons which had previously been used against American warships, and had “disabled” them too.
“Magrav technology”, its import to note, was conceived by the Iranian-born nuclear engineer Mehran Keshe [photo 3rd left], but whose works are banned from public use in the United States under an Executive Order signed by President Obama on 23 April 2012.
The necessity of the US Navy to develop countermeasures against “magrav technology”, this report says, was clearly shown to them last year after Federation air forces completely disabled the feared AEGIS destroyer USS Donald Cook in the Black Sea. So demoralizing was this attack against the USS Donald Cook, when it limped into a Romanian port for repairs, all 27 of its officers put in for reassignment and/or retirement.
more:
http://www.whatdoesitmean.com/index1853.htm
Yet, there is no reference to it, at all, anywhere, except your sheet of paper. Instead of shrinking protons, maybe "head"?
It is so terrifying that no one talks about it.
It must suck reporting from your basement, the fantasies you generate.
Look who wrote it . it's sorcha faal a disinformation agent for west writing BS . US anytime to be blown aircraft carrier docked in england that's true but the latter isn't .
http://rt.com/uk/243157-carrier-us-uk-defence/
donald cook story is correct because they did dock in romanian ports and fascington dc never denied it . it seems russia has surge ahead in EW weapons too . keep dragging your
UK Citizen Won Law Case That BBC Had Advance Knowledge of 9/11
A British judge ruled in favor of a UK citizen who said that the BBC’s premature announcement of the collapse of WTC Building 7 proved advance notice and constitutes a violation of the UK Terrorism Act as the BBC did not report to authorities that the BBC was told the building was down before the event happened.
Very interesting. Read here: http://www.globalresearch.ca/bbc-foreknowledge-of-911-collapse-of-wtc-building-seven-british-man-won-law-suit-against-bbc-for-911-cover-up/5438161
Under UK law the police have to investigate, but Washington’s sock puppet Cameron will invoke “national security” to block the police investigation of the BBC’s advance notice.
http://www.paulcraigroberts.org/2015/03/23/uk-citizen-won-law-case-bbc-a...
(You didn't hear this from me....)
It was Bin Laden on the Grassy Knoll
Just taking them out for a cruise, no posturing what so ever. Any country just randomly swings by N.America and the US would figuratively drop a massive load in its draws.
Hey wait a minute... Is that one of Russia's-France Mistral ships I see there...?
This may be as much to signal the Israelis to stand down as signal Iran.
“The plane is disintegrated. The largest debris is the size of a car,” Gilbert Sauvan, president of the general council of the Alpes-de-Haute-Provence, told France’s Les Echos newspaper, adding in a separate comment to AP: “Everything is pulverized.”
“It’s an apocalyptic sight,” said district MP Christophe Castaner, after surveying the crash site from the air.
http://rt.com/news/243673-germanwings-barcelona-crash-alps/
Did they fly over Kiev?
Show me the passenger manifest, and I'll tell you what happened.
It's against Talmudic teaching to directly attack if you cannot get away with it.
Are they finally in a position to get away with it?
They better make sure it looks like the Iranians started it.
The Russians and Chinese are watching from an altitude of 200 miles.
LOL, because you can always trust them. Wink, wink!
sitting ducks.
'shock and awe' is over
these fools are going to get their heads handed to them on a platter
and that includes the net-and-yahoo crowd.
it would be nice to see the hanoi hilton songbird and the sandwich lady aboard along with dickhead cheney, the drunk.