Just so typical of Americans, now the half of the country who have heard of Eyeran are convinced the Amererican Navy as been assaulted by heavily armed (possibly nukular) Eyerainyan torpedo attack boats manned by the Eyerainyan Republican Navy.
Pentagon video and audio is fake: Iranian TV
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Just like so many cabinet members lost their jobs over the WMD lies?
C'mon, Bush is in his last year - if there was ever a time for him to do really evil and stupid things, it is now.
Pangloss
Iran is counting on all the people who won't 'ever' believe the U.S., it plays right into
their hands.
Each situation has to be judged on it's own, I don't like their tactics either, but that
doesn't mean that Iran is innocent, as they have their own insane tactics and
reasoning, as well.
"We are coming to you"
The US Navy radio operator instructs the boats to stay clear of the "coalition" ships.
Then the voice at the other end of the radio says:
"We will explore a few minutes".
It is the US Navy radio operator who replies "We will explode in a few minutes?" and that version of the transmission became so convenient to US authorities that it was adopted and never corrected, even though the audio tape was available for analysis and review.
This is clear to me, yet it seems that certain people do not want to hear it that way. They prefer the "explode" version, which suits them better. It falls in line with the White House Foreign policy whose goal is to attack Iran.
Bingo and another thing, I'd like to go back to those speed boats again.
When they captured the british, they were using these:
"A vessel approaches what appears to be a boat with British servicemen in this image taken from Iranian television. Iranian television released a few seconds of footage on Thursday, March 29, 2007."
http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/20070329/iran_banmoon_070329?s_name=&no_ads=
Why would they use these, more effective gun boats in this situation where the british were just on a merchant ship, but then use these speed boats against actual war ships?
It just doesn't make any sense, plain and simple.
Foggy no doubt.
But he can't claim "in fact" that the US sank their own ship in the Tonkin Gulf to start the Vietnam War when no ship was sank just to make his point seem more credible.
BBC, "There is no sign of threatening behaviour by the Iranian boats..."
Well, if you can't take a BBC newsperson's military threat assessment based on Iranian video, what kind of an expert do you want, a U.S. naval officer, on a warship, at a range of less than one mile?
To me, it looks like a speedboat speeding, but the waters are not so crowded that tiny patrol boats which would float in a puddle and can turn on a dime have to come within the threat threshold proximity range (or whatever the term is) of a very visible American warship in international waters.
Give a wide birth to enemy warships when waterskiing in your explosive vest. This is not a place for the harmless play of PWC's driven by the playboys of terrorism. When they come within the range of risk computed by that maximum quantity of high explosives that the boat can carry, plus maybe 200 meters, they should be blown out of the water. Such may well be the rules of engagement issued to the warship.
Well, if you can't take a BBC newsperson's military threat assessment based on Iranian video, what kind of an expert do you want, a U.S. naval officer, on a warship, at a range of less than one mile?
To me, it looks like a speedboat speeding, but the waters are not so crowded that tiny patrol boats which would float in a puddle and can turn on a dime have to come within the threat threshold proximity range (or whatever the term is) of a very visible American warship in international waters.
Give a wide birth to enemy warships when waterskiing in your explosive vest. This is not a place for the harmless play of PWC's driven by the playboys of terrorism. When they come within the range of risk computed by that maximum quantity of high explosives that the boat can carry, plus maybe 200 meters, they should be blown out of the water. Such may well be the rules of engagement issued to the warship.