Live Thread: War With Iran Continues #5

[Timber Rattler]

"Nobody knows about it. right NOW! We took out 22 ships the other night, late at night with NO LIGHTS because they don't have radar, we blasted the crap out of it."

Uh...the "secret" Navy escorts were reported in the news two weeks ago.

U.S. Navy Quietly Escorts Oil Tankers Through Strait Of Hormuz Amid Rising Gulf Shipping Risks

https://www.marineinsight.com/us-navy-quietly-escorts-oil-tankers-through-strait-of-hormuz-amid-rising-gulf-shipping-risks/ 

[Cyber Liberty]

Uh...the "secret" Navy escorts were reported in the news two weeks ago.

U.S. Navy Quietly Escorts Oil Tankers Through Strait Of Hormuz Amid Rising Gulf Shipping Risks

https://www.marineinsight.com/us-navy-quietly-escorts-oil-tankers-through-strait-of-hormuz-amid-rising-gulf-shipping-risks/

And we didn't keep the oil, contrary to some reports.

[240B]

https://twitter.com/EricLDaugh/status/2064737683570655474

I apologize to everyone. But I'm sorry, I simply no longer believe what he says. I can only be lied to a few times until I write the person off as a liar.
Trump has said this same trope too many times only to switch at the last minute, and he does the exact opposite of what he says he is going to do.

I hope this time it is actually real. But I can only believe it when I see it literally happen. Trump's words no longer impress anybody. He has worn out his bluster gig.
It would not surprise me in the least for Trump to start this, and then to stop it on the edge of victory to try again "to make a deal" at the very last minute.
Trump cannot be trusted with war. He is a 'peacenik' at heart. Trump does not have the warrior ethos.

[Cyber Liberty]

I apologize to everyone. But I'm sorry, I simply no longer believe what he says. I can only be lied to a few times until I write the person off as a liar.

Trump will be devastated when he hears about this, I'm sure....

[240B]

Trump will be devastated when he hears about this, I'm sure....

@Cyber Liberty

Would you please just SHUT THE HELL UP! Stop your snide little pseudo-intellectual sniping. You add nothing to the discussion.
Stop arrogantly harassing and sniping everyone like you are some kind of on-high priest looking down on the masses.
If you don't have anything productive to add, then just shut the hell up. You are posting crap for no reason, just to post something and nothing more.

[Cyber Liberty]

@Cyber Liberty

Would you please just SHUT THE HELL UP! Stop your snide little pseudo-intellectual sniping. You add nothing to the discussion.
Stop arrogantly harassing and sniping everyone like you are some kind of on-high priest looking down on the masses.
If you don't have anything productive to add, then just shut the hell up. You are posting crap for no reason, just to post something and nothing more.

OK, I will, but you've been asking for it.  No more sniping, I promise.

[Luis Gonzalez]

https://www.msn.com/en-us/politics/government/us-bombs-iran-s-water-facilities-why-that-s-so-significant/ar-AA25iDZx

This was a warning of things that could happen.

[Fishrrman]

Bob wrote in reply 43 above:
"Death to the Great Satan" is not a slogan, its a foreign policy toward which the ruling Arabs all work, hand in glove...

It's amazing how many in The West cannot accept or even comprehend this.

This includes many of the posting members of this forum.

I don't post in the iran war threads much as the situation there seem almost "stuck" now, and these next moves by Mr. Trump probably won't change anything much.

Remember what Mr. Reagan said when asked about the outcome of the Cold War:
"We win. They lose".

In the spirit of what Reagan said, I will post this (hey, it's the internet, right?)...
There are but two ways the war with iran will be won:
First way:
A ground invasion that rivals that of D-Day decades ago.
Second way:
Nuclear strikes where needed.

OK, folks, I'm easy to knock over.
Have at me...!

[catfish1957]

Oh no.  Cheating and stealing from Iran. The shame. 

So bringing ourselves down to the moral  levels of the Mullahs is acceptable? 

Our trustworthiness in the world has slipped.....   And stunts like this don't help.

[Cyber Liberty]

So bringing ourselves down to the moral  levels of the Mullahs is acceptable? 

Our trustworthiness in the world has slipped.....   And stunts like this don't help.

We didn't steal any oil, we enabled its shipments through the Strait to the parties who legitimately purchased from non-Iranian countries in the Gulf.

[libertybele]

So bringing ourselves down to the moral  levels of the Mullahs is acceptable? 

Our trustworthiness in the world has slipped.....   And stunts like this don't help.

War is fair?  Charging fees to access the Strait of Hormuz is ok?  Iran is trustworthy?  I don't see this as a stunt I see this as helping aid other countries including the U.S.

If we were to bomb Iran into oblivion would that be an acceptable 'stunt'??

[catfish1957]

We didn't steal any oil, we enabled its shipments thhard rough the Strait to the parties who legitimately purchased from non-Iranian countries in the Gulf.

Thanks, hard to parse the lies and distortions nowadays,