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

A small motor boat disregarded repeated warnings to change its course,and continued to speed towards a US Navy ship , was struck with a burst of .50 cal fire, killing one. Further details are still emerging:


US Navy Fires on Ship in Persian Gulf, One Dead

An American Navy ship fired on a boat in the Persian Gulf today, killing one person and injuring three others aboard the craft, a U.S. naval official told ABC News.

A spokesperson for the Navy's 5th Fleet, which is based in nearby Bahrain, said that a security team aboard the oil supply ship U.S.N.S. Rappahannock fired a .50 caliber machine gun at a "small motor vessel after it disregarded warnings and rapidly approached the U.S. ship" off the coast of Jebel Ali, a city approximately 30 miles from Dubai in the United Arab Emirates.

The Navy is investigating the incident as details continue to emerge. A Navy official said the offending vessel was a white pleasure craft, but a UAE official told ABC News the it was a fishing boat with four Indians and two Emirates on board. There doesn't appear to be any indication the incident was terror-related, the UAE official said.

The Navy official said it's not uncommon for Iranian speed craft to harass U.S. ships in the region, but in this case the boat wasn't Iranian.



http://news.yahoo.com/us-navy-fires-ship-persian-gulf-one-dead-161552208--abc-news-topstories.html

 

Yeah just saw this ... but I don't think this is gonna be a Gulf of Tonkin incident ... to the chagrin of McKook & Graham and some of the other congressional right-wing war mongers ...

 

WTF? yeah...that makes a lot of sense...

After the USS Cole, only IDIOTS would speed toward the US navy in the Persian Gulf.....


Exactly which "warmonger" keeps lauching all the child killing drone attacks into Pakistan, etal.?

 

Yep, the right-wingers in congress are war mongers, just like their buddies on the other side. So, I guess you're only half blind to the truth.

So keep on sippin on that partisan koolaid, yummy.

 

That's Dem *Smart Warfare* ... like the dropping of the atomic bombs ...

 

Brilliant, it's only warmongering when they do it. For (*)(*)(*)(*)s sake, you have no problem being a mega hypocrite, do you?

 

U.S. wars after WWII have all been conservative holocausts ... except for Korea ... that one simply couldn't be avoided ...

 

So you support indiscriminate killing,as long as it's a democrat doing it?

 

What a load of (*)(*)(*)(*). LBJ sent 500,000 Americans to Vietnam. 54,000 dead servicemen's blood is on him and his fellow democrats hands.

You have absolutely no clue what you're talking about.

And, let's not forget all the dem congressman who voted to approve of force being used against Iraq.

 

'Nam= KENNEDY/JOHNSON got us in. Nixon GOT US OUT.

Both Iraq wars...BI PARTISAN SUPPORT....Afghanistan BI PARTISAN SUPPORT, but now, Obama is pising away the livesd of our men, without an objective.

 

Bushs' Islamic holocausts in Afghanistan & Iraq seems to be righteous with you ... now with Obama in office, stealth targeting of muslims seems to churn your stomach ...

... no sweat, let it churn ...

 

Just like it was cool to be anti war when bush was in office, and now you're all war drum beating idiots?

Please, hypocrite away.

 

SHall I qoute ALL THE DEMS who voted for both,as well as ALL THE DEMS who warned us of IRAQI WMDs in the 1990's, before you try that lie?

 

There's something about America that's pleasing when it comes to blowing muslims back to the virgins from stealth aircraft as opposed to our boys stepping on Irainian disguised as Al-Queadist IED's ...

 

Cool story bro.

Hey guess what, you're still a hypocrite.

 

PNAC signatories were all Dems in 1998?

 

PNAC signatories were all Dems in 1998?

 

Conservative Wars are always started as *permanent wars* ... you should watch The Fog of War ... McNamara will make you sick as he gesticulates in glee about it ...

 

Yep, LBJ the conservative sure made sure that Vietnam lasted as long as possible. And now, Obama the conservative is still in charge of America's longest war.

 

See Eisenhowers' SEATO ... this was the first institution of *Conservative Nation-Building* ... an utter distortion of the Truman Doctrine of creating anti-communist bilateral and collective defense treaties ... to prop-up the only western nation to not exit southeat asia after WWII ... France in Viet Nam ...

 

Ouch!! Did it hurt to pull that Straw Man out of your rear?

These people "were all Democrats" in 1998:



"One way or the other, we are determined to deny Iraq the capacity to develop weapons of mass destruction and the missiles to deliver them. That is our bottom line."
--President Bill Clinton, Feb. 4, 1998


"If Saddam rejects peace and we have to use force, our purpose is clear. We want to seriously diminish the threat posed by Iraq's weapons of mass destruction program."
--President Bill Clinton, Feb. 17, 1998

"Iraq is a long way from [here], but what happens there matters a great deal here. For the risks that the leaders of a rogue state will use nuclear, chemical or biological weapons against us or our allies is the greatest security threat we face."
--Madeline Albright, Feb 18, 1998

"He will use those weapons of mass destruction again, as he has ten times since 1983."
--Sandy Berger, Clinton National Security Adviser, Feb, 18, 1998

"[W]e urge you, after consulting with Congress, and consistent with the U.S. Constitution and laws, to take necessary actions (including, if appropriate, air and missile strikes on suspect Iraqi sites) to respond effectively to the threat posed by Iraq's refusal to end its weapons of mass destruction programs."
Letter to President Clinton, signed by:
-- Democratic Senators Carl Levin, Tom Daschle, John Kerry, and others, Oct. 9, 1998

"Saddam Hussein has been engaged in the development of weapons of mass destruction technology which is a threat to countries in the region and he has made a mockery of the weapons inspection process."
-Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D, CA), Dec. 16, 1998

"Hussein has ... chosen to spend his money on building weapons of mass destruction and palaces for his cronies."
-- Madeline Albright, Clinton Secretary of State, Nov. 10, 1999

"There is no doubt that ... Saddam Hussein has reinvigorated his weapons programs. Reports indicate that biological, chemical and nuclear programs continue apace and may be back to pre-Gulf War status. In addition, Saddam continues to redefine delivery systems and is doubtless using the cover of a licit missile program to develop longer-range missiles that will threaten the United States and our allies."
Letter to President Bush, Signed by:
-- Sen. Bob Graham (D, FL), and others, Dec 5, 2001

"We begin with the common belief that Saddam Hussein is a tyrant and a threat to the peace and stability of the region. He has ignored the mandate of the United Nations and is building weapons of mass destruction and th! e means of delivering them."
-- Sen. Carl Levin (D, MI), Sept. 19, 2002

"We know that he has stored secret supplies of biological and chemical weapons throughout his country."
-- Al Gore, Sept. 23, 2002

"Iraq's search for weapons of mass destruction has proven impossible to deter and we should assume that it will continue for as long as Saddam is in power."
-- Al Gore, Sept. 23, 2002

"We have known for many years that Saddam Hussein is seeking and developing weapons of mass destruction."
-- Sen. Ted Kennedy (D, MA), Sept. 27, 2002

"The last UN weapons inspectors left Iraq in October of 1998. We are confident that Saddam Hussein retains some stockpiles of chemical and biological weapons, and that he has since embarked on a crash course to build up his chemical and biological warfare capabilities. Intelligence reports indicate that he is seeking nuclear weapons..."
-- Sen. Robert Byrd (D, WV), Oct. 3, 2002




http://www.davidstuff.com/political/wmdquotes.htm



Etc., ad nauseum....

 

U.S. military advisors were in Vietnam starting in 1950. The war officially started in 1955. Kennedy wasn't President and neither was Johnson.

Furthermore, Kennedy was trying to get us out but got killed before he could implement it.

Bush was pissing away the lives of our men without an objective too. More proof that both parties suck.

 

So you admit that Nixon cut and ran !!

 

It's a start........


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Here's what you're failing to negotiate ... everytime a neocon posts-up the 107th Congress Dems who voted yay on the Iraq War resolution ... well, they were lied too along with the rest of the world (coalition) by the Bush neocons ...

Notice the date(s) of there little posts of what the Dems said ... they all end 2 weeks after the invasion of Iraq ... when it was clear there no WMD's let alone *mushroom cloud* devices ...