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Pentagon planning Navy buildup as 'warning to Iran'
http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/N18217613.htm
US to warn Iran with naval buildup in Gulf- CBS 19 Dec 2006 03:28:31 GMT Source: Reuters WASHINGTON, Dec 18 (Reuters) - The Pentagon is planning a major buildup of U.S. naval forces in and around the Gulf as a warning to Iran, CBS News reported on Monday. A senior Defense Department official told Reuters the report was "premature" and appeared to be drawing "conclusions from assumptions." The official did not know of plans for a major change in naval deployment. Another Defense Department official called the report "speculative" and a Pentagon spokeswomen declined to comment. Citing unidentified military officers, CBS said the plan called for the deployment of a second U.S. aircraft carrier to join the one already in the region. The network said the buildup, which would begin in January, wad not aimed at an attack on Iran but to discourage what U.S. officials view as increasingly provocative acts by Tehran. The report said Iranian naval exercises in the Gulf, its support for Shi'ite militias in Iraq and Iran's nuclear program were causes for concern among U.S. officials. ______________ CBS video on the subject: http://www.cbsnews.com/sections/i_vi...ml?id=2279916n |
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Pentagon planning Navy buildup as 'warning to Iran'
Warning is not a Warning when nobody believes that you will indeed
carry out the threat, there have been so many "warnings" (don't do this, don't do that, otherwise there will be consequences, don't test the bomb/US will never tolerate a nuclear NK/Iran) sent to Iran and North Korea so far that US credibility has become a joke, because they did exactly what the US warned them not to do, and what they got? ANOTHER WARNING. When you don't have the military resources, diplomatic support and political capital to back it up, warning is just an invitation for the world to see how powerless and stupid you are, better to admit your weakness and try other routes. |
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Pentagon planning Navy buildup as 'warning to Iran'
On 20 Dec 2006 07:30:45 -0800, "eatfastnoodle"
wrote: Warning is not a Warning when nobody believes that you will indeed carry out the threat, there have been so many "warnings" (don't do this, don't do that, otherwise there will be consequences, don't test the bomb/US will never tolerate a nuclear NK/Iran) sent to Iran and North Korea so far that US credibility has become a joke, because they did exactly what the US warned them not to do, and what they got? ANOTHER WARNING. When you don't have the military resources, diplomatic support and political capital to back it up, warning is just an invitation for the world to see how powerless and stupid you are, I'm sorry but your post doesn't make sense. Can you give further explanation? If the US does in fact have a naval buildup in the persian gulf, how can that buildup express what you claim: no military resources, diplomatic support and political capital for the warning. better to admit your weakness and try other routes. |
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Pentagon planning Navy buildup as 'warning to Iran'
"Zeno дµÀ£º " On 20 Dec 2006 07:30:45 -0800, "eatfastnoodle" wrote: Warning is not a Warning when nobody believes that you will indeed carry out the threat, there have been so many "warnings" (don't do this, don't do that, otherwise there will be consequences, don't test the bomb/US will never tolerate a nuclear NK/Iran) sent to Iran and North Korea so far that US credibility has become a joke, because they did exactly what the US warned them not to do, and what they got? ANOTHER WARNING. When you don't have the military resources, diplomatic support and political capital to back it up, warning is just an invitation for the world to see how powerless and stupid you are, I'm sorry but your post doesn't make sense. Can you give further explanation? If the US does in fact have a naval buildup in the persian gulf, how can that buildup express what you claim: no military resources, diplomatic support and political capital for the warning. better to admit your weakness and try other routes. Because ships and planes can't and won't destroy Iran, and the US has such a large chunk of its troops struck in Iraq, and even if navy and air force can do the job, the US is in no position to use it, EU won't support invasion, Russia and China are totally against it, so all the major powers are against military strike, not to mention Bush's credibility is a joke after the Iraqi fiasco and his party has just lost both house and senate because of another oversea military intervention, if GWB wants to announce to the world that he plans to invade another, far bigger country to eliminate so called WMB threat (sound familiar?), he will find it a little bit harder to convince the congress to go along with it, not to mention no foreign ally at all, I'm sure not even Britain and Australia will sign on to another big foreign intervention supported by the same people inside the administration who have shown to world how utterly incompetent they are by bungling the Iraq operation, no ally at all, not even "coalition of the willing", because nobody is going to follow Bush's stupid policy any more. |
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Pentagon planning Navy buildup as 'warning to Iran'
On 20 Dec 2006 20:12:04 GMT, Juergen Nieveler
wrote: "Mosquebuster" wrote: Naval buildup, hell. ONE Trident submarine can turn all of Iran into the world's largest ashtray --- Care to look at a map for a change? First, Iran is a bit larger than you seem to think, seconds, large parts of it are mountains and valleys. Juergen Nieveler You might want to brush up on conflagration. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_explosion A better question would be whether one Trident submarine could kill everyone in Iran once or more than once. |
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Pentagon planning Navy buildup as 'warning to Iran'
On 20 Dec 2006 20:12:04 GMT, Juergen Nieveler
wrote: "Mosquebuster" wrote: Naval buildup, hell. ONE Trident submarine can turn all of Iran into the world's largest ashtray --- Care to look at a map for a change? First, Iran is a bit larger than you seem to think, seconds, large parts of it are mountains and valleys. Juergen Nieveler You might want to brush up on conflagration. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_explosion A better question would be whether one Trident submarine could kill everyone in Iran once or more than once. |
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Pentagon planning Navy buildup as 'warning to Iran'
Mosquebuster wrote:
"AirRaid" wrote in message ups.com... http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/N18217613.htm US to warn Iran with naval buildup in Gulf- CBS 19 Dec 2006 03:28:31 GMT Source: Reuters WASHINGTON, Dec 18 (Reuters) - The Pentagon is planning a major buildup of U.S. naval forces in and around the Gulf as a warning to Iran, CBS News reported on Monday. [snip] Naval buildup, hell. ONE Trident submarine can turn all of Iran into the world's largest ashtray --- To have a show of force, it gotta be 'shown'...a Boomer sitting who knows where isn't exactly a saber rattled. That Iranian knucklehead is all about being seen as a great leader in the Islamo-facist campaign and would sacrifice many of his own to make his point. He knows if he seriously threatens Israel, Iran will cease to exist.... |
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[Rense_December 20, 2006]
"Ahmadinejad Is Right" By Karin Friedemann Ahmadinejad is doing the right thing to point out the Jewish issues. Any time you make an anti-Israel statement the Jews are going to be told by all the Jewish organizations to "feel attacked" in order to use this fear for fundraising. You can't let their little hissy fit stop you from exposing them. They will always misquote and demonize anyone who speaks against their domination. The Jews want to bomb Iran. So there is no point in pretending that "if only he had said the right thing about the Holocaust" that Jews would have another attitude towards the Iranians. Whenever a Palestine Solidarity Conference takes place in the U.S., the media is filled with lies and distortions regarding what the conference is about, and invariably a team of rabbis will fill the newspapers with op-eds decrying the conference organizers for "hate". Threatened with an Iraq-style war by the U.S. Jews, Ahmadinejad has nothing to lose. He saw from Saddam's example that if you comply with weapons inspectors and act submissive and politically correct, your country will be irradiated. So therefore he is trying a different tactic, that of being abrasive and by mirroring Jewish offensive practices. Do you realize how many Nakba Denial conferences and Anti-Muslim genocide incitement conferences the Jewish organizations hold per year in the United States? Iran did nothing but hold an academic conference. The only tactic that has ever worked against slanderers is to point the finger back at them. Ahmadinejad is going on a media offensive - and this conference was widely applauded throughout the Middle East - because he knows that being defensive and cooperative with Jews results in getting bombed. Since no one has tried this "be offensive as possible" media tactic yet, Ahmadinejad is willing to give creativity a chance to stop a war. I hope to God he succeeds. http://www.rense.com/general74/ahm.htm |
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