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Inching Toward Conflict: US Navy To Escort Cargo Ships In Persian Gulf; Iran Refuses To Back Down

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Stocks took a nasty fall on Tuesday when Al Arabiya erroneously reported that Iran had captured a cargo ship with a crew of Americans on board. It also sent oil surging. Things promptly normalized when it was revealed that the "confiscated" ship was merely one with a Marshall Island flag, at which point its fate was quickly forgotten (it may still be held by Iran, or not). But one thing is certain: both Iran and the US are itching for a provocation, whether a direct one or the far more traditional false flag type.

Earlier today, Iran's Navy Commander Rear Admiral Habibollah Sayyari said that presence of the 34th fleet of the Iranian Navy in the Gulf of Aden is in accordance with international law to protect Iranian trade vessels against pirates.

Quoted by Iran's IRNA news agency, Sayyari, who was speaking to reporters on the sidelines of a ceremony to mark the National Teacher's Day, said that the Iranian Navy has maintained a continuous presence in the Gulf of Aden, Bab el-Mandeb Strait and western India since 2008 Sayyari

He added that claims that Iranian warships have been warned and that they have left this region are not correct.

The Navy commander reiterated that the Iranian fleet does not enter territorial waters of other countries and is only present in international waters to ensure security for Iranian trade vessels.

Sayyari said that the 34th fleet of the Iranian Navy has also helped other countries in protecting their ships against pirates.

A laughable excuse of course, but no less laughable than the one provided by the US navy offered ten days ago when we learned that a US Navi aircraft carrier and a warship are being dispatched to intercept Iranian weapons shipment to Yemeni rebels.

And, as expected, moments ago there was yet another step up in the Persian Gulf naval escalation when CNN reported that the U.S. Navy will escort U.S.-flagged cargo ships through Strait of Hormuz in wake of Iran seizure this week, a US official says. Specifically, the Navy will henceforth accompany ships on concern that Iran’s Revolutionary Guard may seize them, CNN’s Jim Sciutto says in Twitter post, citing CNN’s Barbara Starr.

As a reminder the Straits of Hormuz is one of the busiest shipping lanes in the world, one which is transited by 35% of all seaborne traded oil.

This takes place just a day after the Pentagon said that the U.S. would "be able to respond" if necessary to help a Marshall Islands-flagged ship that was diverted, and boarded, a day earlier by Iran -- though it remains unclear how far the U.S. Navy might be willing to go if the tense situation escalates. 

Pentagon spokesman Col. Steve Warren said a U.S. guided-missile destroyer, the USS Farragut, is in the area and "keeping an eye on things," and in close enough proximity to the ship that they "will be able to respond if a response is required."

When pressed on what kind of incident aboard the ship would elicit a U.S. Navy response, he was vague, saying: "These [U.S. military] assets give commanders options." He said he didn't know "what the possibilities are," and the U.S. government is "in discussions with the Marshall Islands on the way ahead."

It is unclear what happens if either the accompanied cargo ship, or the US Navy warship leaves international waters, and enters Iran territory, which as the Bab el-Mandeb Strait is virtually assured: a strait which as the US Naval update map below shows has become as busy for US traffic as the 405 Freeway during rush hour.

 

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Thu, 04/30/2015 - 15:51 | 6047989 DutchBoy2015
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The National Guard is also to protect the USA but those bastards were in Iraq shooting womena and children

Thu, 04/30/2015 - 16:02 | 6048040 ross81
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I thought everyone knew that the Pacific Ocean, the Atlantic Ocean, the Indian Ocean and indeed any other oceans, seas, lakes and rivers are all vital to US security and therefore all belong to the US military.

Thu, 04/30/2015 - 18:14 | 6048538 TBT or not TBT
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You are thinking of the EPA.  They claim jurisdiction over temporary puddles, and all air, inside or out.   

Thu, 04/30/2015 - 16:17 | 6048095 Kirk2NCC1701
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How do you see Coast Guard cutters in the area?  What map are you reading?

Note however that CVN70 (carrier Carl Vinson) was in the area 2 weeks ago, has left and is now at the Straits of Malacca.  Which is another bottleneck for Cargo and Oil ships to/from China, etc.  Interesting move by USN.

Thu, 04/30/2015 - 16:29 | 6048138 rubiconsolutions
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Maybe I am nutz but isnt the Coast Guard in charge of protecting the US Coast?

 

Don't you realize that the US .gov considers every drop of water on earth to be its property. You're lucky there isn't a cutter sitting in your above ground pool or in that puddle in your yard from keeping the sprinkler on too long.

Fri, 05/01/2015 - 01:55 | 6049608 Doofer
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Because by U.S. law only the Coast Guard can board ships other than U.S. ships in international waters.

 

Thu, 04/30/2015 - 15:17 | 6047864 kchrisc
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"Barrel? "Strait of Hormuz. Check!"
"Ducks? "Navy ships? Check!"
"Gun and shooters?" "Dancing Mossads? On the way!"

Liberty is a demand. Submission is tyranny.

Thu, 04/30/2015 - 15:18 | 6047865 Thisisbullishright
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Hmm, lets see.....

Wars started all over the world, money printed out of thin air for years, militarized police, Jade Helm military exercise on U.S. soil, completely corrupt insane "leaders", big banks and wall street too big to jail, middle class being gutted, MSM total propaganda machine, highest incarcaration rate in the world, crumbling infrastructure, every man for themselves, mindless I-phone "walkers", morally bankrupt, spied upon constantly by our various alphabet agencies....

Did I cover most everything?

We are DOOMED!!!!

Thu, 04/30/2015 - 15:20 | 6047868 Itchy and Scratchy
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Iran started global warming. Bomb Iran!

Thu, 04/30/2015 - 15:20 | 6047869 venturen
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Just an Obama lovers quarrel...how long before missles end up in Cuba?

Thu, 04/30/2015 - 15:39 | 6047936 European American
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heading in or out? and would that be US missles pointed towards the US?? It's such a clusterfuck nowadays, everywhere. The US has become such a shit hole spewing it's hideous odor around the globe. Sadly, we are the "Bad" guys.

Thu, 04/30/2015 - 15:31 | 6047907 _SILENCER
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Man, Fox News is going to be awesome tonight when Oliver North opens his cake hole to tells how bad ass it's going to be when we drop all kinds of hellfire all over the middle east again. I'm going to download the app right now!

Thu, 04/30/2015 - 15:35 | 6047923 European American
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Imagine the potential for global peace if we boarded up the USA (military), Tel Aviv and the City of London...although, how would we vent the place from the vile stench inside?

Thu, 04/30/2015 - 15:52 | 6047996 kchrisc
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I'm telling you, this shit show stops, and quick like, if Russia, China, and all the rest of the nuclear armed nations, were to state that if war breaks out, Israel gets it "first, and hardest."

Liberty is a demand. Tyranny is submission.

 

Sometime in the future, history books are going to look at less than 2% of the world's population based in a speck in the Middle East controlling and destroying the world as the most absurd thing to happen in history. They will also marvel at the backlash that came when the world woke up.

Thu, 04/30/2015 - 15:38 | 6047931 Mister Delicious
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first off, actually Iran has done a good bit to protect shipping from pirates, mostly Somali

http://www.wired.com/2012/04/iranian-sailors-pirate-king/

You think a largely Jewish owned and controlled media [do any of you troll *dispute* that? or do you just downvote anything that highlights Jewish *power*?] would give them credit?

Second this is just the same old US/Israeli playbook - start a provocation, when the other side defends or prepares to defend itself, spin it as aggression.

http://electronicintifada.net/content/netanyahu-government-knew-teens-we...

http://www.globalresearch.ca/israel-violent-racist-frenzy-right-wing-gro...

How many times can Russian troops "invade" Ukraine?

How many times can the Iranian navy send "vessels" to "capture" ships - that is, police its own territorial waters, and board a ship that strayed too far?

More bullshit posturing from The Anglo-Zionist Global Banking and War Empire and nothing more.

The fucking shame is how many idiots - cnn and fox viewers, arab-hating israel firster xian zios and their ilk - swallow this bullshit.

I hope some of them sign up for the navy.

you'll find out pretty quick that "defending the United States" is not the mission of the US Navy especially.

***

You're not "serving" your country, you poor, brainwashed fuck.

You're gonna die for your government.

Thu, 04/30/2015 - 15:48 | 6047975 Usurious
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''Second this is just the same old US/Israeli playbook - start a provocation, when the other side defends or prepares to defend itself, spin it as aggression.''

same thing happened in WW1 & 2

 

Thu, 04/30/2015 - 16:31 | 6048147 kchrisc
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"same thing happened in WW1 & 2"

Yup, despite my deep knowledge of history, especially of Europe in the 20th. Century, I just reexamined WW I, but from the point of view of the Balfour Declaration, the Zionist banksters, and Zion.

I have a completely different view now.

WWI was mostly about Zion breaking up the Ottoman empire and ending Turk control of Palestine. By the summer of 1916, the Brits and France had essentially lost WW I. The Zionists then saw a way to leap ahead in their plan to takeover Palestine. They, and their banksters, proposed to the Brits that they would support the Brits in the war and see to it that the US was dragged in, but only in exchange for Brit control and protection in Palestine. Zion also promised the Brits and France control of a defeated Germany's colonies. The Brits also got what they thought were loans, but were really a Zionist yoke. The Brits then signed the Balfour Declaration on November 2, 1917, and then invade Palestine from the recaptured Sinai.

In the mean time, Zion gained control of Russia, and tried to takeover Germany as well, but failed.

As for WWII, it did not start with the Versailles treaty but instead on November 2, 1917, and the the "Stab in the Back" was true. Not that that condones the Nazis, or makes an apology for them, but highlights the anger felt by the German society was based on reality. Further the coals WW I were fanned into the flames of WW II by the Zionist banksters' continuous squeezing of France and Britain for payments on their loans/yoke, which then induced the Brits and France to squeeze Germany that much more--"You can't get blood from a stone, but you certainly can cause a lot of bloodshed."

Regardless, the histories of WW I, WW II, and Israel are not of the variety most of us were indoctrinated with.

Liberty is a demand. Tyranny is submission.

Thu, 04/30/2015 - 16:53 | 6048264 Usurious
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bingo...........the british empire, backed by da jew bankers, are responsible for everything.......the real holocaust is how many died under british rule, not how many jews might have died in germany.....

Thu, 04/30/2015 - 23:00 | 6049310 Kirk2NCC1701
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You have come a long way, Grasshopper.  Er, Whitey.  

-Whitey 

Thu, 04/30/2015 - 15:40 | 6047941 teslaberry
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I PROPOSE WE CALL IT THE GULF OF WHORE-TONK-IN-MOOZ.

 

maybe banzai can do better, or a tonk-in-whore-muz. like a vietnam word play on the coming flase flag before it even happens, because...it's gonna happen.

Thu, 04/30/2015 - 15:52 | 6047992 ebear
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Truk Lagoon

Thu, 04/30/2015 - 16:27 | 6048129 scrappy
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reslaberry, I like where you are going with this.

How about strapping Hillary to the yardarm with pasties?

That would send them runnin' and blind their radar to boot!


Thu, 04/30/2015 - 17:17 | 6048369 kchrisc
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From henceforth the Bank of International Settlements, the FedRes, and ECB will be required to operate from office on a DC US carrier in the Strait of Hormuz, and/or the Persian Gulf.

Liberty is a demand. Tyranny is submission.

 

"Hey! You sank my central bank!"

Thu, 04/30/2015 - 19:47 | 6048800 HowdyDoody
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"How about strapping Hillary to the yardarm with pasties?"

Sorry, that constitutes a cruel and unusual punishment to the poor innocent viewer.

Thu, 04/30/2015 - 15:44 | 6047958 Itchy and Scratchy
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Infiltrate Iran with burka wearing transgendered marines!

Thu, 04/30/2015 - 16:25 | 6048125 DutchBoy2015
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Hey HOMO.  Iranian women don't wear Burkhas, you ignorant son of a bitch.

 

Thu, 04/30/2015 - 16:30 | 6048145 Itchy and Scratchy
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Oh yeah I forgot only the dutch muslims wear 'em!

Thu, 04/30/2015 - 16:34 | 6048173 DutchBoy2015
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Wrong again,  they don't wear Burkas.,  Saudis and Afghanis do.

Suggest you get educated you goddam fucktard.

Thu, 04/30/2015 - 16:40 | 6048194 Itchy and Scratchy
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Ok then only the homo dutchman wear them!

Thu, 04/30/2015 - 22:35 | 6049231 trulz4lulz
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Hilariously, all of it...ahhh the satire of the gallows!

 

Thu, 04/30/2015 - 15:46 | 6047965 Mister Delicious
Thu, 04/30/2015 - 17:43 | 6048466 kchrisc
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Good info, and an important read. Thanks.

Reminds me of the first time I heard of PNAC's "Rebuilding America's Defenses"declaration for the need for a "new Pearl Harbor." I could not believe that they would be so bold. But that was before I put on my "Roddy Piper Glasses," and could really see what ails us.

They are so psychopathic that they want, need, to claim ownership for their crimes.

Liberty is a demand. Tyranny is submission.

 

"Put the glasses on! Put 'em on!"

Thu, 04/30/2015 - 15:47 | 6047966 undercover brother
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Iran is not backing down?  that's bullshit.  Iran would have no chance and their ships would be destroyed in minutes.  No matter hows suicidally moronic those moohlah's are with a single life, they are not catastrophically moronic to the tune of hundreds of millions of dollars for a naval vessel.  

Thu, 04/30/2015 - 15:48 | 6047974 DutchBoy2015
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US Navy has MORONS running them.  Don't underestimate Iran, They are not fucktards like US military.

Thu, 04/30/2015 - 15:50 | 6047984 undercover brother
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takes one to know one I suppose.

Thu, 04/30/2015 - 15:57 | 6048016 DutchBoy2015
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Persians are not Arabs, asswipe.  Americuints are morons , you being a classic example.

Fri, 05/01/2015 - 08:59 | 6050132 Buster Cherry
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I feel sorry for your husband

Fri, 05/01/2015 - 08:57 | 6050122 Buster Cherry
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You're still pissed about your entry level separation?

 

Some just can't hack it. It's ok, just take another drink....

Thu, 04/30/2015 - 15:51 | 6047990 Itchy and Scratchy
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Yep! Just like the last time Iran attacked another country leading the Zandie Invasion in 1798! I remember it well!

Thu, 04/30/2015 - 16:14 | 6048086 rejected
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+1000

Thu, 04/30/2015 - 15:50 | 6047985 just the tip
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Lt. Nyota Uhura: [Having just learned that she is assigned to the Farragut] Commander, a word?
Spock: Yes, Lieutenant?
Lt. Nyota Uhura: Was I not one of your top students?
Spock: Indeed you were.
Lt. Nyota Uhura: [the scene cuts to another location, where Uhura is still hounding Spock] And did I not, on multiple occasions, demonstrate an exceptional aural sensitivity, and I quote, "an unparalleled ability to identify sonic anomalies in subspace transmissions tests?"
Spock: Consistently, yes.
Lt. Nyota Uhura: And while you are well aware of my own qualified desires to serve on the U.S.S. Enterprise, I'm assigned to the Farragut?
Spock: It was an attempt to...
[he glances around, keeping his voice low]
Spock: ...avoid the appearance of favoritism.
Lt. Nyota Uhura: [Adamantly] No. I'm assigned to the Enterprise.
Spock: [He adjusts his roster list] Yes, I believe you are.
Lt. Nyota Uhura: Thank you.

Thu, 04/30/2015 - 15:57 | 6048015 Itchy and Scratchy
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Iran anti homo marriage! Bomb Iran!

Thu, 04/30/2015 - 16:00 | 6048026 DutchBoy2015
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Sez Itchy the homo .

Thu, 04/30/2015 - 16:15 | 6048092 Itchy and Scratchy
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I already told you ...I'm spoken for!

Thu, 04/30/2015 - 16:20 | 6048108 DutchBoy2015
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Oh yes, thats what your Dad (your buttfucking partner) told me also.  I forgot.

Thu, 04/30/2015 - 16:23 | 6048119 Itchy and Scratchy
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You need to find your own BF's!

Thu, 04/30/2015 - 16:03 | 6048043 edotabin
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Shut up! It's because they mistreat women!

Thu, 04/30/2015 - 16:14 | 6048084 DutchBoy2015
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Bullshit,   have you ever been to Iran?  I was there on business twice in 2003.   Women run all the stores and tell the men what to do.

You are fucking brainwashed like most Americans.

Women also drive cars in Iran and do NOT wear Burkas.   Unlike the Saudis who YOU support ,where women can't drive cars and wear Burkas.

Get educated, Bozo.

Thu, 04/30/2015 - 16:13 | 6048082 rejected
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Another anal commando.

Thu, 04/30/2015 - 18:53 | 6048643 bid the soldier...
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Nobody loves gay marriage like the USSA.

If that isn't license to invade every oil rich nation on the planet, what is?

Thu, 04/30/2015 - 15:59 | 6048021 DutchBoy2015
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The KIKE roaches of Israel attacked a ship bringing humanitarian aid to Gaza  IN INTERNATIONAL WATERS.  What did the goddam Useless Snakes do?  NOt a damn thing even though the IDF murdered an American on the Mavi Marmara.

Thu, 04/30/2015 - 16:30 | 6048151 bid the soldier...
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Hey, I read 3 0r 4 of your comments this afternoon and I'd like to know what you had for lunch.

"I'll have what he's having."

Thu, 04/30/2015 - 16:33 | 6048165 DutchBoy2015
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I had a lovely quiche.

It makes my blood boil to read some of the ignorant Americunt comments here.  They believe lots of LIES about Iran.

 

Thu, 04/30/2015 - 16:38 | 6048185 Itchy and Scratchy
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Very homo lunch!

Fri, 05/01/2015 - 00:01 | 6049423 bid the soldier...
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Homo lunches are very tasty.

You just have to be careful not to get a bone stuck in your throat. 

Fri, 05/01/2015 - 01:46 | 6049600 bid the soldier...
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They have to believe those lies.

Their comfortable retirements depend on them being true.

Let the future do its worst.  I have a PPK.

So will Nuland have Poroshenko 'false flag' the separatists in Donbas before the EU votes on whether or not to extend the sanctions.

Today Kerry threatened the EU saying if they did not extend the sanctions "there would be a cost."

Thu, 04/30/2015 - 15:59 | 6048024 Itchy and Scratchy
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Iran anti-abortion! Bomb Iran!

Thu, 04/30/2015 - 16:01 | 6048029 CompassionateCo...
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Maybe they should just send all those tough child murdering NRA Rambos over to take care of business with their sickening assault weapons and cop killer bullets.  Lol, fuck the NRA and fuck the constitution.  The constitution gives me constipation.

Thu, 04/30/2015 - 16:07 | 6048055 Mister Delicious
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Perhaps you're a relatively obtuse person?

Thu, 04/30/2015 - 16:12 | 6048078 rejected
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Must be a 'public servant' and/or LAW ENFORCEMENT (said in a deep and very authoritive voice)

Thu, 04/30/2015 - 17:03 | 6048323 falconflight
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The constitution gives me constipation...yeah it represents "negative liberties" upon those who know better how to direct a willing public.  Right?

Thu, 04/30/2015 - 16:02 | 6048036 DutchBoy2015
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I see lots of shit for brains Americunts here think Iran are Arabs like Iraqis.  

Attack Iran and you will get a surprise.  

Thu, 04/30/2015 - 16:08 | 6048060 CompassionateCo...
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Shutup, Mr. Hitler.

Thu, 04/30/2015 - 16:10 | 6048066 DutchBoy2015
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Hey Americunt,  you motherfuckers are worse Nazis than Hitler ever was.   Hitler never bombed hospitals like YOU cocksuckers do  NOR target women and children which your Jarhead SCUM do in Iraq.

So fuck off you little punkass Nazi cocksucker.

Thu, 04/30/2015 - 16:54 | 6048274 falconflight
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How do you figure the US military consciously 'targeted' women and children in Iraq?  And if it is/was true, tell me which Shia/Sunni confederate outfit hasn't.  

Thu, 04/30/2015 - 17:05 | 6048328 zstard
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"bombed hospitals like YOU cocksuckers do  NOR target women and children which your Jarhead SCUM do in Iraq"

@DutchBoy - where did you see this?

Thu, 04/30/2015 - 17:18 | 6048376 DutchBoy2015
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Numerous stories in 2003-2007 and real videos.

Thu, 04/30/2015 - 16:11 | 6048073 DutchBoy2015
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Hey fucktard,  The USA has killed well over 10 million INNOCENT people around the globe since 1960.

Grow a fucking brain you son of a crack whore asswipe.

Thu, 04/30/2015 - 16:51 | 6048246 falconflight
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Are you ProLife then?  I thought it more like 30 million babies.

Thu, 04/30/2015 - 16:56 | 6048283 DutchBoy2015
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I am pro life and pro choice. 

I am talking about the 10 miillion innocent people killed by the USA military.

Thu, 04/30/2015 - 17:05 | 6048307 falconflight
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So your position is that the US Gov't shouldn't be fighting wars or even causing wars by resisting the counterparty involved, regardless of the claimed rationale?  Absent a military attack upon the shores of the USSA, there isn't a cause of action, I'm assuming?

Thu, 04/30/2015 - 16:57 | 6048289 falconflight
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Just because the US military shot down that Iranian civilian passenger plane killing hundreds, it doesn't mean it couldn't happen again.

Thu, 04/30/2015 - 18:36 | 6048609 Redbeard
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Iranians are Persians , you are correct sir ! A very old civilization indeed

Thu, 04/30/2015 - 16:13 | 6048080 Itchy and Scratchy
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Iran is anti-food stamps! Bomb Iran!

Thu, 04/30/2015 - 22:41 | 6049243 trulz4lulz
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You're killing it.....I'm in tears.....

Thu, 04/30/2015 - 16:15 | 6048091 bid the soldier...
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This is what the US fears:  yakhont.

 

Does Iran have them?  Is it just a story that Hezbollah is smuggling them in?

Iran probably has them  Hezbollah probably doesn't.  Read this story.  By an Israeli Admiral.  Forget the Hezbollah part

http://www.jpost.com/Defense/Ex-navy-chief-Israel-has-defenses-against-a...

 

Thu, 04/30/2015 - 16:18 | 6048100 Itchy and Scratchy
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Iran is anti-police brutality! Bomb Iran!

Thu, 04/30/2015 - 16:20 | 6048104 Fix It Again Timmy
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America kills because it's GOOD for business and if you WAVE a flag in front of Americans, you've immediately got their approval for a new killing spree - it's really very sickening and disgusting....

Thu, 04/30/2015 - 16:21 | 6048111 DutchBoy2015
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Worse than Nazi Germany

Thu, 04/30/2015 - 16:28 | 6048133 Itchy and Scratchy
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Worse than the Verenigde Oost-Indische Compagnie too!

Thu, 04/30/2015 - 16:32 | 6048156 DutchBoy2015
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Ja, dat klopt, Klootzak

Thu, 04/30/2015 - 16:41 | 6048202 pupdog1
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Worse than the mayor of Baltimore.

Thu, 04/30/2015 - 19:55 | 6048822 HowdyDoody
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He spends his time scratching his itchy klootzak.

 

Thu, 04/30/2015 - 18:34 | 6048601 Redbeard
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Empire

Thu, 04/30/2015 - 23:07 | 6048131 Kirk2NCC1701
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Click-baiting aside, so far this still seems like much ado about nothing:

1. The Iranians pulled in a European cargo ship for a closer look, while it entered their waters. 

2. The Dutch/Danish owners need a cover story for what will now be Late Delivery and an unprofitable trip. 

3. The owners 'Cry Wolf!' and sucker in the dumb USSA regime to Run Interference for their NATO Partner. 

4. The USSA sends in the USN, which is happy to oblige.

5. The MSM.com and Media.alt are happy to cover the event, each with their own spin.

Watch, click and blog away accordingly.

Thu, 04/30/2015 - 16:29 | 6048140 gatorengineer
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excellent strategy, to expand the arming of ISIS to include anti-ship missiles.  I guess General Dynamics was feeling left out

Thu, 04/30/2015 - 16:30 | 6048144 DutchBoy2015
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I am sure some of the Americunt trailer trash bastards here would love to see the Useless Snakes destroy yet another beautiful country like Iran.

Hey Bozos  watch this video and LEARN something about Iran.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D61uriEGsIM

Thu, 04/30/2015 - 19:39 | 6048772 RichardP
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Most of Iran is mountains and impassable bogs.  That makes transportation too expensive.  Transportation is necessary for industry and commerce.  Iran will never have this because of its topography, which limits affordable transportation.  Too expensive to get raw materials in and finished goods out.

Thu, 04/30/2015 - 19:57 | 6048830 HowdyDoody
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The trucks in Iran are an interesting mix of old 1950's US classic trucks and new Chinese stuff.

Thu, 04/30/2015 - 16:48 | 6048233 falconflight
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101st GayBlade Brigade placed on alert!  Butches in BDU's and Beta Boys w/ tats and man tities in reserve.  

Thu, 04/30/2015 - 16:50 | 6048243 overmedicatedun...
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nobody said being the world super power would be easy...boy was nobody smart.

washington DC, is rotting and shit is flowing from it across the globe.

when .gov was funded by tariff tax (hated by all NWO groupies) nobody said it could not afford a massive military, along came the FED AND THE INCOME TAX (approved by NWO lovers) and bingo world wide military adventurism was possible- nobody hates the FED more then even I do.

Thu, 04/30/2015 - 16:54 | 6048273 DutchBoy2015
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ZioNazis control the USA lock ,stock and barrel   - Dr. Paul Craig Roberts.

The Kike roaches of Tel Aviv and their minions in the USA are behind all these wars.

And NEVER forget, its the CIA/Mossad that actually did 911 so dumb motherfuckers would HATE muslims.

It seems to worked judging by most of the comments.

Thu, 04/30/2015 - 17:14 | 6048363 Mister Delicious
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dont know if you're a half clever troll here to 'poison the well' or not, dont care, but drop the "kike" shit for fuck's sake.

Not fair, not cool, not interesting, and counter-productive all around.

Thu, 04/30/2015 - 17:16 | 6048368 DutchBoy2015
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As crowds gathered in Ho Chi Minh City on Thursday to mark the 40th anniversary of the end of the Vietnam War, Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung reminded the crowd of the role the United States had played in that war. "They committed countless barbarous crimes, caused immeasurable losses and pain to our people and country," Dung told the audience in an address.

Read more: WHAT REALLY HAPPENED | The History The US Government HOPES You Never Learn! http://whatreallyhappened.com/#ixzz3YpUKo6ZU

Thu, 04/30/2015 - 17:32 | 6048427 falconflight
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Collective Punishment

Thu, 04/30/2015 - 19:58 | 6048834 HowdyDoody
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Just out of interest, is 'kike' more offensive than 'goy'?

Thu, 04/30/2015 - 16:55 | 6048270 Mister Delicious
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Univ. of Florida closes fraternity over abuse of wounded vets

http://www.foxnews.com/us/2015/04/29/university-florida-closes-fraternit...

No mention that these fucking puke frat boys were in a Jewish frat.

Think if it were an Arab or Muslim frat FOX would have mentioned it?

http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2015/04/florida_frat_punks_spit_on_d...

Would have been amajor national story if they were not Jews.

Thu, 04/30/2015 - 19:59 | 6048837 HowdyDoody
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A real case of spitting on vets, it seems.

Thu, 04/30/2015 - 17:02 | 6048314 SmittyinLA
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what did the Iranians find on the last ship they boarded?

Thu, 04/30/2015 - 17:06 | 6048324 Moribundus
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In his speech at The Chicago Council on Global Affairs’ 

explains how Washington can maintain its dominance over the planet and also identifies potential enemies of the US.

 


George Friedman said that the US does not have relations with Europe: “We have relations with Romania, France and so on. There is no Europe with which the USA have any relations”.

 

 

“The US control all the oceans of the earth. No one had been able to do so. Therefore, we can interfere around the world, but no one can attack us. The control of the oceans and space is the basis of our power”, said Friedman in Chicago. 

“The priority of the USA is to prevent the German capital and German technology to be united with the Russian natural resources and labor, to form an invincible combination”  

“Creating a “cordon sanitaire” around to the Russia will eventually allow the US to hold on a leash Germany and all the European Union”   

 

 

https://youtu.be/emCEfEYom4A

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Thu, 04/30/2015 - 17:07 | 6048329 gwar5
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Wait..... er, wha??  But I thought Obama, the magic negro, had made a secret nuke deal with Iran so they could get nukes if they played nice for the rest of BHO's time in office.  They blatantly lied to a black man? Say it ain't so....

 

Thu, 04/30/2015 - 17:12 | 6048354 Mister Delicious
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And to think, you just may have missed some more insights from FOX news by dint of sharing your insight with us!

You're a damned hero.

Next beer's on me, stud.

Thu, 04/30/2015 - 17:15 | 6048365 DutchBoy2015
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As crowds gathered in Ho Chi Minh City on Thursday to mark the 40th anniversary of the end of the Vietnam War, Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung reminded the crowd of the role the United States had played in that war. "They committed countless barbarous crimes, caused immeasurable losses and pain to our people and country," Dung told the audience in an address.

Read more: WHAT REALLY HAPPENED | The History The US Government HOPES You Never Learn! http://whatreallyhappened.com/#ixzz3YpUKo6ZU

Thu, 04/30/2015 - 17:20 | 6048383 DutchBoy2015
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Vietnamese lost 2 million in that USA induced Holocaust.

USA lost only 58,000

Thu, 04/30/2015 - 17:20 | 6048384 DutchBoy2015
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Vietnamese lost 2 million in that USA induced Holocaust.

USA lost only 58,000

Thu, 04/30/2015 - 17:26 | 6048406 falconflight
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disproportionate response?

Thu, 04/30/2015 - 19:54 | 6048807 SilverCoinLover
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And did you kill any Vietnamese while you were there Dutchboy? I looked at your Army discharge papers you uploaded from another thread....you RE-ENLISTED in the summer of 1968! After the Tet offensive, when everyone but McNamara & LBJ knew we were losing the war. And you claim to have been born in the Netherlands! Why didn't you return there in 1968 instead?

It does explain one thing - what turned you into the biggest foul-mouthed 70 year old asshole poster on ZH.

Thu, 04/30/2015 - 17:21 | 6048391 falconflight
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So John F. Kerry was right...and his portrait hanging in the People's War Museum is not a fiction?

Thu, 04/30/2015 - 17:35 | 6048438 Buster Cherry
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the cowardly expat returns to slam his old country from a safe distance....

 

Walk in cront of a speeding truck please

Thu, 04/30/2015 - 17:37 | 6048443 falconflight
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We're a nation of expats..or is that immigrants...

Thu, 04/30/2015 - 17:42 | 6048458 DutchBoy2015
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Hey you punk ass coward. I am NOT an expat.  I renounced officially last year. Cost me 450 bucks and this year they raised it to 2400 bucks because many more people are renouncing. 

Oh, and BTW, I am back in my country of birth.  Welcomed with open arms. and they said ''we are sorry you had to partake of the Vietnam war''.  The whole world was against that.

You are the coward , afraid to stand up for what is right.  Fuck off, you litlte punk ass.

Fri, 05/01/2015 - 08:30 | 6050027 Buster Cherry
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Quit lying.

You were born in a catholic home for unwed mothers and your anger at your failed life caused you to crawl into a bottle. You just wound up in Holland because you passed out in a shipping container on the dock in Newark.

 

Pushing 70 eh? You must have a cast iron liver.

 

(just feeding the troll as it has now become sport)

Thu, 04/30/2015 - 17:54 | 6048502 DutchBoy2015
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Buster Cherry,   I dare you to come here and tell me that to my face.  Hope you enjoy munching on your own puny testicles.

I know, you are spawn of a crack whore and Father(s).  So you never learned wrong from right.

You are a little punk who just thinks everyone must do what the USA govt tells them.

You are a disgusting pathetic little punk and a true coward to boot.

Thu, 04/30/2015 - 22:47 | 6049262 trulz4lulz
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You're really bad at sarcasm aren't you, Mr Grumpy pants......all riled up.

 

Fri, 05/01/2015 - 08:21 | 6050010 Buster Cherry
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Nurse! Nurse!

The thorazine is wearing off again...give him a double.

Fri, 05/01/2015 - 09:49 | 6050292 Buster Cherry
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You obviously have a problem....

Do they have a Salvation Army over there you can turn to?

 

I find it humorous your observation of not knowing wrong from right and that I think all must obey the .gov, and I have to admit that you are a good speller even when intoxicated.

And just because I take the time out of my day to respond to the rantings of a mentally ill alcholic homosexual doesn't necessarily make me a disgusting pathetic little punk and a true coward to boot.

What time is it over there? Shouldn't you be passed out by now?

Thu, 04/30/2015 - 18:10 | 6048530 SmedleyButlersGhost
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I'll cover the airfare - please get his name and address.

Thu, 04/30/2015 - 18:13 | 6048535 DutchBoy2015
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How are you going to do that with your EBT card, jackoff?

Thu, 04/30/2015 - 18:19 | 6048548 SmedleyButlersGhost
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Now now hero of Danang, I still have a verifiable retired officer willing to take your info offline and verify your creds. Until then, please show some decorum, I'm speaking to Buster.

Thu, 04/30/2015 - 18:22 | 6048557 DutchBoy2015
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I am not a hero of DaNang and I don't like jackoffs saying''Thank you for your service''.  You have a retired officer that can verify my creds?  LOL   Go for it.   I guess you didn't hear about the St. Louis fire years back where a whole shitload of miiltary records got destroyed.  I had to go thru a bunch of crap to get my DD214 copy back in 1989

Thu, 04/30/2015 - 18:26 | 6048564 SmedleyButlersGhost
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This guy doesn't need records. He'll know who your unit commander was. He's a General Ret. last name Neil Google him. Active in stolen valor activities.

Thu, 04/30/2015 - 18:28 | 6048567 DutchBoy2015
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366TFW had many commanders .  Better look who was in charge in April 71-April 72

Thu, 04/30/2015 - 18:32 | 6048586 SmedleyButlersGhost
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He'S a smart guy - he'll figure it out - so you up for it?

Thu, 04/30/2015 - 18:34 | 6048599 DutchBoy2015
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Sure Am,  like I said, Go for it.  

Thu, 04/30/2015 - 20:43 | 6048959 SmedleyButlersGhost
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I will pass all of this along and get back to you - count on it

Thu, 04/30/2015 - 23:30 | 6049386 DutchBoy2015
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Sure you will,  LOL,   Fucking liar.

Fri, 05/01/2015 - 01:59 | 6049611 DutchBoy2015
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I Google him but came up with his nickname. ''General Fuckup''.

Thu, 04/30/2015 - 18:36 | 6048603 DutchBoy2015
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Better make sure he is still alive. Lots of us have kicked off already, and I am pushing 70.

Thu, 04/30/2015 - 18:40 | 6048614 SmedleyButlersGhost
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He's alive and kicking - close friend of family

Thu, 04/30/2015 - 18:40 | 6048616 DutchBoy2015
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Why don't you tell the truth?  He is your buttfucking buddy. 

Thu, 04/30/2015 - 18:42 | 6048622 DutchBoy2015
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Tell you what clownboy,  Generals take a crap just like anyone else.  nothing special.  Having flown Heads of State around the world for a couple of years, your Faggot General Neil does not impress me.  

Thu, 04/30/2015 - 18:44 | 6048626 DutchBoy2015
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General Neil was nothing more than a REMF.   All Generals are.

Thu, 04/30/2015 - 18:39 | 6048613 DutchBoy2015
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I bet your General pal is like the Colonel in ''American Beauty''. 

Thu, 04/30/2015 - 18:34 | 6048595 DutchBoy2015
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They were handing out Purple Hearts for anything at DaNang.  If you fell out of your bunk during rocket attack and cut yourself you could get a Purple Heart.  LOL

Thu, 04/30/2015 - 18:25 | 6048563 DutchBoy2015
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Call the FBI/CIA ,  they could check my creds easily.    https://www.dropbox.com/sh/b7h6bqkvl46q7vj/AAD3yL68363n_qDF2qacfuXta?dl=...

Thu, 04/30/2015 - 20:03 | 6048850 Mister Delicious
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what's the first rule of holes, son?

Thu, 04/30/2015 - 22:50 | 6049273 trulz4lulz
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Never go dick first! Sir!

Thu, 04/30/2015 - 19:14 | 6048701 bid the soldier...
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The Vietnamese bullshit of America. They led the US to believe that because of some piss ant islands in the South China Sea, they are willing to throw over China and Russia for America's help in possessing those islands.

Dump Russia and China whose help was decisive, sine qua non, in their defeat of US.

Ally themselves with the former invader who poured flaming gasoline and other toxic chemicals on the citizens.

And the stupid American diplomats believe that the Vietnamese are practically in their camp

Thu, 04/30/2015 - 20:02 | 6048847 Mister Delicious
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I agree with him. And the US did the same to the Korean and Cambodian and Laotian people before doing it to the Afghans and the Iraqis, and now the Syrians.

The US hasn't been the good guy for a very long time.

Thu, 04/30/2015 - 17:17 | 6048370 q99x2
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How 

How

Thu, 04/30/2015 - 17:36 | 6048439 falconflight
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Anyone know if a USS Barack H. Obama is being built?

Thu, 04/30/2015 - 19:14 | 6048698 pupdog1
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.

Thu, 04/30/2015 - 19:13 | 6048700 pupdog1
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Complete with custom foredeck made of oriented strand board to hold the golf clubs...

https://www.flickr.com/photos/cornelli/11655410173/

Thu, 04/30/2015 - 21:16 | 6049040 Solarman
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By the Iranians.

Thu, 04/30/2015 - 17:47 | 6048480 falconflight
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I am surprised just how timid are the Ayatollahs in the face of a massive bombing by the Family Saud against the Houtis in Yemen.  They've blustered a bit, but considering how much death and damage has been wrought, I'm taken aback by their non kinetic response.

Thu, 04/30/2015 - 17:57 | 6048509 DutchBoy2015
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They are smart enough to know that USA/Israel would love if Iran stepped in.  As long as Iran protects THEIR own borders.  They are in the right.

Countries that go outside of their borders to wage wars of aggression always suffer HUGE collective karmic retribution.

 

Fri, 05/01/2015 - 08:11 | 6049988 Buster Cherry
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Now I know where Ive seen you. You're that crazy skid row bum standing outside the pot boutique looking at the window and screaming at your own reflection....

Thu, 04/30/2015 - 18:00 | 6048517 DutchBoy2015
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Ever hear the term ''Don't fire until you see the whites of their eyes''??

If the USA troops went into Iran, NONE would come back alive.

Iran is NOT Iraq.  They are Persians NOT Arabs.  

Oh, and Iran is 3 times the size of Iraq and has lots of mountains.

The USA can't even beat a bunch of goat herders in Afghanistan after 12 years.

Americans should learn you can't beat anyone in THEIR backyard.

 

 

Thu, 04/30/2015 - 18:34 | 6048598 falconflight
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You certainly have never read anything posted by me suggesting I'm an idiot who doesn't know the difference between Arabs and Persians.  And I agree that the Amerikan Empire failed to learn the lessons of history regarding Afghanistan, not to mention that artificial nation state has no geo-strategic value in the first place. 

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