Iranian Gunboats Harass US Navy -- CAP's Cirincione on CNN

http://www.americanprogress.org/issues/2007/02/iran_report.html

Center for American Progress Senior Fellow Joseph Cirincione joined CNN to discuss reports that Iranian naval vessels harassed US Navy ships in the Straits of Hormuz.

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[NWPbmoney]

US military calls it "significant" iran calls it "routine" when will our foreign policy be live and let live we are not team america world police. lets fix home befor we fix the world

[getyrhaton]

You know people like this Northgrant asshole he still won't believe it until it's time to get chipped. I'm not a conspiracy nut either, but you know what two plus two makes four. This conspiracy shit been predicted over the past couple of years RFID chips, NAU, you name it. What else you need. I swear when the shit hits the fan I'd better not run into anybody that's naive.

[mauiluna13]

Wow! you perdicted the future I'm watching the news now and your right!

[101andrewj]

@ThePersianGulf its not just the US, every single conflict in human history has had innocent people hurt and killed, so the fault lies with whoever started the war in the first place, aka iran and iraq, because once a war is started, innocent people will die 100%

[ThePersianGulf]

@101andrewj

This is more similar to joke than reasoning. When a radar can scan a f14 from 100 miles away but get s wrong a huge passenger airplane just 10 miles away with f14...lol

Oh poor innocent US navy! I almost cried for them. It's never the US fault, whether it's a mud house in Iraq, or wedding in Afghanistan or massive passenger plane in the Persian Gulf, the only thing the cowards have learnt well is " if you are afraid, SHOOT!!!"

[101andrewj]

the airport isnt irrelevant, the reason the passenger jet was mistaken for a f-14 was because the ships radar had scanned a iranian f-14 radio signal from the same area the passenger jet was leaving from. and iranian f14s carried exocet missiles, which are capable of destroying a US navy frigate with a single impact from ranges up to 10km... also in the few months before the incident, US navy ships wer actually hit with these missiles, in war, innocents die, so its irans fault for being at war

[ThePersianGulf]

@101andrewj

They waited to the last minute??? They were/are cowards and nervous! Are you out of mind? F-14 is tiny. The airport is irrelevant being 100km away from the scene, the passenger airplane Airbus was on the standard airways roots to its destination. US military record is very poor in war against civilians whether it's a mud house in Iraq, or wedding in Afghanistan or massive a passenger plane in the Persian Gulf, the only thing they have learnt well is " if you are not sure, SHOOT!!!"

[101andrewj]

@ThePersianGulf 10 miles is the distance a iranian fighter could launch a attack from... so they waited until the last possible minute... also iran was launching military aircraft from the same airport as the civilian plane that was shot down, which is really stupid and the reason why the US warship mistook the airbus for a iranian f-14

[ThePersianGulf]

@101andrewj

That's what have been told or heard from US biased media.

A big plane Airbus technically won't be able to dive even little close the pattern dive of fighter jet. Also civilians aircrafts were not hearing signal from military navy. Not to mention it was shot down 10 miles before even passing by the navy. The problem with Yankie soldiers is that they are afraid, coward and nervous their fingers on the trigger, they always shoot then investigate. good luck

[101andrewj]

@ThePersianGulf yeah, that same plane also dived on the american warship and did not reply to radio hails, if it was a iranian fighter jet, which it could have and was thought to be, it could have destroyed the american warship and killed everybody, so they had to fire.... besides... altho that 1 incident sucked, it helped expose some trouble in the radar systems that has been fixed now