For years, critics have warned that President Barack Obama’s weak stance on our military and foreign policy would embolden our enemies.
The recent outrageous aggression by the Iranian navy towards our naval ships proves that criticism valid.
And Obama won’t do anything about it.
Wednesday, four Iranian attack boats conducted a “high-speed intercept” of the guided missile destroyer USS Nitze on Wednesday in the Persian Gulf, coming within a dangerous 300 meters before turning back. The U.S. Navy described the incident as “unsafe and unprofessional” and said it occurred in international waters in the narrow Strait of Hormuz.
“The Iranian vessels moved at high speed toward the Nitze, which was operating in accordance with international law in international waters and ignored maritime ‘rules of the road’ as set out in the 1972 Convention on the International Regulations for Preventing Collisions at Sea,” CNN reported. “According to the Navy official, the IRGC vessels ignored multiple warnings, creating a dangerous, harassing environment that could have pushed the Nitze to take defensive measures, escalating the situation.”
U.S. Navy video of the incident shared by Fox News shows American sailors on the Nitze firing flares and sounding the warship’s horn as the Iranian boats approached.
In January, months after the controversial nuclear deal with Obama, Iran captured and interrogated 10 U.S. Navy sailors who lost power and drifted into Iranian waters.
Last December, Iranian ships fired rockets near U.S. warship and other vessels in the Strait of Hormuz, and a month later flew an unarmed drone over the USS Harry S. Truman aircraft carrier in the Persian Gulf.
Is President Obama’s silence on the issue the right move? Or is it more of the same — weakness from the commander-in-chief? Comment below.
The Associated Press contributed to this article
Iranian sand fleas in boats acting like bullies. They’ve been getting away with being bullies since late 1979. The present administration allows it. I wonder if Reagan in the winter of 1981 sent our Air Force and Navy to deliver Iran a strong military message after the hostages were released, if Iran would still be so arrogant?
I’m still waiting for this government to realize Obozo is terrorist leader and tipping them off because he’s here to infiltrate the country and bring his Muslim people here for the destruction of the country as we know it .
It’s obvious to me because Nobody can be this stupid, ignorant and blind . A 7yo could see what he’s doing. Like the children’s book The Emperor Has New Clothes ”
If that happen! You know what to do????
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If that happen! You know what to do????
Obama won’t do a damn thing just like always.He is a weak,spineless,wannabe that has nothing under control except the citizens of the United States.The fools that voted for him(twice)will now reap what they have sown.God help us now,but I don’t believe he will because we are too stupid to keep this person in office.He should be convicted of treason and replaced IMMEDIATELY by Donald Trump!
Oduma has been a “goofball” from the start; this latest exercise in OPENING UP RESTROOMS TO “WHOMEVER” IS JUST THE LIMIT; in fact there have been innuendoes from time to time about his own “sexuality.” You have to wonder why he would have gone “THERE;” to please the LBGTQ FOLK?
Oduma has been an embarasment from Day #1; he is a weak and ignorant would-be tyrant; and clearly he favors MUSLIMS. The U.S. has never been so much at risk!! To see those fools harassing US Navy Vessels says it all!!
Yes.
Really? You are going to go all the way back to Reagan to pose blame for Iran. The fact is Obama is very little bark with absolutely no bite.
Yes indeed!! Blow those suckers out of the water a few times & it will probably stop!!
Catherine: Of course I blame this administration. However, Iran has been bullying since November 4, 1979. After the hostages were released on Jan 20, 1981, Reagan should have quickly sent Iran a military message, That would have nipped Iran’s haters at the bud.
You have to have balls to stand up to them
“GO TRUMP”
Maybe the Iranians already spent the US Tax Payer`s $400. million that Obummer sent them a while back and want more!
SO WELL PUT!!!
That week kneed piss ant Obama no balls, he is just a pussy that wants to destroy America, impeach this bastard now. Quit screwing around get rid of the jerk.
we are sissies ,, JOHN KENNEDY, EISENHOWER , ROOSEVELT , ETC ,, WOULD BLOWN THESE SOBS RIGHT OFF THE MAP
And … “in the wings,” that squirrel Keane seeking to be HIL LIAR’S VP and ODUMA obviously anticipating a “continuing role!!”
One positive sign is that ratings of MSNBC have plummeted; the American Public is coming to its senses; it is no longer gullible enough to just accept the throaty missives of the “ELITISTS” OF “THE MEDIA;” the benign intellects content to reside in zones of mediocrity with the similarly impaired; GET A VIEW on MSNBC’S “Morning Joe!”
A bunch of “gents” gossiping like “old women” on a porch, anyl of whom are so much smarter!!
Obama will say please
OBAMA HAS NO BALLS WHEN IT COME TO CALLING OR STAYING ANYTHING TO THEM.
THAT IS WHY U.S.A. IS THE LAUGHING STOCK OF THE WHOLE WIDE WORLD!!!
“GO DONALD TRUMP GO”
To even infer that Obama is a “commander-in-chief” is a joke! He is a wimp and the country would be much better off if he just went on a permanent golfing vacation, and let someone with some “cojones” lead the country.
Actually he needs to be impeached and then tried for treason for what he’s done to our country.
John, I agree, tried for treason, and kick his disloyal a** out the country, back to Africa , where he belongs…..
Helen Higgason-
John, I agree, tried for treason, and kick his disloyal a** out the country, back to Africa , where he belongs…
I agree with yourself and John that D’OweBama should be tried for Treason.
I completely DISagree that D’OweBama should be impeached.
Only LEGITIMATE officeholders can be impeached. If such a proceeding is even STARTED, the very act of doing so will legitimize his illegitimate Personation, which is a crime involving the taking, holding, and exercising of the powers of an office for which he has NEVER been qualified.
He should simply be arrested, tried, convicted, stripped of his office, and evicted, along with his wastrel nouveau-riche wife and spoiled children – and sending them a bill for all their lavish vacations while American Citizens were suffering homelessness and worse would be a nice finishing touch, too. Oh, and of course, upon conviction of Treason in time of War, Congress is authorized to set the penalty – which can be anything, but death would be a Good Thing for him…and everlasting shame for his family.
But i doubt very much that this stands a chance of happening until gov’t corruption is dug out, root and branch. Perhaps after Trump takes office, the process might begin – but it will be quite a battle. Entrenched criminality is not easily eliminated.
No one dares oppose obama. Trump even mentions it and all of Washington DC quivers in fear.
Too late to impeach him. Would take longer than he has left. If Trump wins election, there could be investigation of many events in Obama’s administration.
Exactly ! We have no Commander in Chief ….and haven’t had one since 2008 . He kisses the Iranian’s ass , gives them everything they want ,…and then they kick sand in his face over and over.
“Coward in Chief” would be a more appropriate title.
“The coward of the Country”! Who sang that???
Kenny Rogers
LET JOE BITON RUN THE SHOW (WHAT DO WE HAVE TO LOSE) THEN GET “TRUMP” IN
The Captain should have taken them prisoner, photographed them on their knee’s and then sunk their crummy little gun boats as a message to the clerics in Iran – screw with us at your own peril next we’ll shoot’em out of the water.
Destroyer 4, gunboats 0.
It’s coming. It’s high time the useless lazy bastards called clerics were replaced by a proper democracy or the Palavi family were brought back. Don and Vlad should get together and wipe islam off the face of the Earth.
The British people have nothing but contempt for obama and I personally find it impossible to understand how he was ever allowed to stand for the POTUS job in the first place.
Me, too! BUT … it was NONE OTHER THAN TEDDY KENNEDY in 2008 that became ODUMA’S MENTOR, introducing him throughout Washington, DC, and the “typically ‘dim witted media folk'” thought a “Black President” would be “novel!” They have so little stuff in their tiny brain cases that they are always on the look out for the superficial and irrelevant as little expense of their limited intellectual capacity.
Here, here.
Isn’t it time that we start shooting. That was an act of war, so let us act. We could have sunk their little boats and let them swim back to land. Obumer was too busy golfing to have noticed we took out some of his buddies boats.
Obama is a Pussy!!!!
Bruce – you’re spot on.
You got it dude; both literally and figuratively. This incompetent coward has sold us out and Hilldabeast will put everything up for a price!
Sounds like the Iranians didn’t receive Quite enough ransom money the last time around. Maybe they’re testing the mettle, and looking for more cash now.
Obama is the enemy.
O’Bummer is powerless to do anything involving Iran. When you get in bed w dogs you wake up w flee’s. The White House is infested w flee’s. If Clinton wins in Nov. watch for the cockroaches to move in as well.
I like John G’s idea!
They could have so easily zeroed in on the four little vessels and fired and destroyed all four.. What Is Iran trying to do?
They are testing Obama back-bone, ( which he has none) he’s a weasel , is about as weak as a man can be, why he was voted in, is a mystery to me, folks, I guess the liberals like their leaders WEAK!!!!!!
If we are in International waters, blow them out of the water. It’s lesson time!
We need a Warrior President in The White House! November’s elections can’t come too soon!
Amen to that! Enough BS dealing with Carter’s bequest to our nation. They’re after whatever they can get.
Barack Hussein Obama, our “Community Organizer” in Chief, will not EVER do ANYTHING against his Muslim brothers. He is a pathetic POTUS and Hillary will be just as bad. Had Reagan been President, those boats would have been at the bottom of the ocean. But what do we expect from a Marxist Muslim President. HE has done everything possible to weaken this nation since taking office and appologizing for American exceptionalism.
These are the same people that this administration has embolden to be able to produce their nuclear weapons. His plan is coming together. He is intent on weakening this country so much that we become a third world power. He is sickening and I can’t believe the congress just sits back and lets him get by with this crap. He should be impeached and removed from office. It would only take one message from our military to put a stop to the Iranian harassment. Blow their boats out of the water and dare them to come within 5 miles of any American vessel.
Where is Reagan when you need him? He didn’t take crap from anybody when he was in office. May he rest in peace. But, the hell with sounding horns and flares, take the Iranians hostage, put them on their knees begging for mercy, and sink all their boats. They want to show force, send them back home screaming for mercy. They got their $4 million payout sorry they already spent it.
Obama has our military commanders afraid of being court martialed if they take appropriate action. Ship Captains (before Obama) would have taken defensive actions long before the Iranian Patrol Boats approached as close as they did. We’ll have to let one of our destroyers take a torpedo before Obama will pay them to stop (Old Navy Gunners Mate)
Obama is the sorriest president in the history of our country. He is a coward and weakling he has almost ruined this country January 2017 can’t come soon enough
Those Iranian ships that fired rockets at our warship last December….SHOULD have been BLOWN out of the water. That is an act of war ! What the hell are they waiting for …another USS Cole and more American sailors dead ? Fire back dammit ! How is our Navy being run now ….when we are fired on..and we don’t even return fire ? NO WONDER our sailors were captured and humiliated . Their Commander should have said …..WHY THE HELL DID YOU SURRENDER ? WE NEED Admiral Bull Halsey back ! You think he wouldn’t have FIRED BACK ?
Well, folks!! Oduma does not have the cajones to be a leader, and he is so intimidated by our Superior Military Leadership he makes it a point to “make them disappear” except for the role of “Back-drop” for his public appearances,.
When is the last time any of our Military Leadership was given a focus whatever by the weasels of “The Media?” We have outstanding men and women of our Armed Forces, The Chairman and Members of The Joint Chiefs of Branches of Service, and they have been shuffled “off stage;” why the National Security is on the brink of disaster.
DONALD TRUMP CAME RIGHT UP FRONT TO CALL ATTENTION TO THE DISREGARD OF ODUMA FOR THE ARMED FORCES OF THE UNITED STATES, and intends to BUILD IT UP MUCH STRONGER.
TYPICALLY, weasel Keane, HIL LIAR’S VP pick (what a joke!) went on TV to instead accuse DONALD TRUMP of alleging that OUR MILITARY IS A DISGRACE, when he was strident in insisting it had to have stronger leadership and support .. given Oduma has created genuine hardships for the Military and their families.
Of course, “The Media” is in HIL LIAR”S “BAG” and they are lock-step in her support as are the LABOR UNIONS, 7 MILLION in TRUMPKA’S AFL-CIO alone .. so folks .. too bad you were not paying attention to $$$$ in payrolls billed to you that are funding BUNDLED UNION DUES to perpetuate their domination of all sectors of OUR GOVERNMNT.
Fact of the matter is President Obama has contributed to the build up of Iran’s military capability.
The $150 billion that Obama gave to Iran, and now added by another $400 million, gave Iran build up a marathon of its attack and defense system capability to destroy the US, Israel that Obama hates to much. Obama is the principal enabler of Iran’s National Defense System.
Add another 1.3 billion to your total and that’s plenty of $ for Oblamers buddies.
This bullchit is insane! What has happened to our military?These punks will keep doing this until someone with the balls stops them. Apparently our military has been castrated by President fuzzy britches.How do you stop a school yard bully? Punch their face off!!!!
Don’ expect anything from Obama or Hillary in the middle east. Though perhaps Obama might decide to apologize for the destroyer being in their way.
Bruce, please do not refer to Obummer as a pussy! Do not degrade that part of ANNY woman’s anatomy with a compliment to this ass hole!
This is what happens when stupid voters elect someone like Hussein Obama . What will he do when the Iranians or North Koreans fire a missile at our Country ,…is he going to just let it hit the US ..and then have dumb ass John Kerry say…. I thought we were giving you what you wanted. Our Country HAS NEVER been so weak and timid as it is today. This idiot in the White House is setting us up for numerous homeland attacks ….with his Muslim refugee program. Last Saturday in Roanoke, Virginia , and in the past few months in Orlando, Florida and San Bernardino , California is just the beginning.
I believe that Trump is the Republican nominee because conservatives in America no longer trust the Washington Republican establishment. They have sold out to Obama. Ryan, Boehner, & McConnel are all examples of weak leadership. They should have filed articles of impeachment against Barack Hussein long ago and pushed for a special independent prosecutor against Hilary and an investigation of the Clinton Foundation. I have never seen a more corrupt Federal Government in my lifetime. Wouldnt it be nice to have Ronald Reagan leading our nation – instead of Barack following the communists and Muslims.
I like John G’s comment a lot. I know so much of these problems in the Middle East would not have happened under a President Romney. While I respect the office, I detest the current office holder’s policies. He tried a new tack of appeasement – it did not work and he cannot even learn on the job. His red lines mean nothing and I have not heard a single comment about this incident. This President has hurt us so deeply in so many ways. I do not want to wish any part of my life away but will be grateful when he is no longer President and hope and pray he is not replaced by Clinton. It would be more of the same because she has had to go so far left she can no longer be considered a “hawk” and she is responsible for much of the trouble in the Mideast – see Libya, and Benghazi in particular.
I preferred a different Republican but do believe that Trump will fight for us. If he does not win, it will be another 4 years of trying to hold on for a good leader.
Looks like our destroyer was out running the Iranian PT boats. Instead of running away, the destroyer should have blown those bastards out of the water. Fucking Ovomit is a pussy weakling. No more qualified to be the Commander-in-Chief than my Obama toilet paper!
Do you realize the Muslim connections related to the Iranian Nuclear Deal? Valerie Jarrat – Senior Advisor to Barack Hussein- Iranian. Huma Abedin- Senior Staff of Hillary Rotten- raised in Saudi Arabia by Islamic father. John Kerry son in law is Iranian. Not to mention the many ties to the Muslim Brotherhood who have funded our enemies and taken over three countries with the help of Hillary & Barack Hussein. This is a sad day in America. Follow the agenda of the American Communist Party documented in the Naked Communist (published in 1958). They are on track to subvert America and detroy it from within.
O’ Bama is weak. It’s his fault that the whole world is in turmoil. I believe that he has been destroying this great country from the inside and people are losing respect. With the debt that this country has and while our disabled people and great veterans go with out, and now Social Security falling apart because they take from that, he is giving SS, medicare, and Medicaid to illegals and refuges ? Then he’s protecting Hillary when she should be in jail for any number of things that any one of us would go to jail for. This country needs a BIG turn-around to be respected the way it used to be. Well, that’s my opinion anyway. (And most other people that I know.)
It looks like America is going to the “dogs” ( no hate for sweet dogs) because of the dumb-a** liberals, there are more people in the liberal party, are very ignorant, uneducated, they would vote for a rock if their leader told them to, so with that note, I will “stop”…..
THIS SHOULD HAVE BEEN A DIRECT HIT ON THEM. INSTEAD, obama, KEEPS LETTING THESE RADICAL COUNTRIES KNOW HE IS AFRAID OF THEM. NOT THE US AMERICANS. HE IS JUST TYING THE MILITARY’S HANDS AND MAKING US UNSAFE!!!!!!!!! HE IS NOTHING MORE THAN THE BIGGEST POS EVER SEEN BY THE USA…………..
Hillary is set to make Obama look good by contrast.
Please leave this region, then all the mess in the middle east is the work of US war industry! Thanks for all the terrorist which where born with the help of the US policy! Greetings from Afghanistan, Irak, Lybia ……
Blow one or two of them out of the water and then announce, since the Cole’s attack , smaller boats approaching U.S. ships will be destroyed unless clearance has been given. Boom, one gone.
at 200 meters fire across the bow.. at 150 meters, blow them out of the water.. period, that’s what needs to be done
From Audacity of Hope: p.261, ‘I will stand with the Muslims should the political winds shift in an ugly direction.’
No one fears Barack Obama. The abundance of empty words he generates is legendary. Donald Trump should address this. He should say that “on Jan. 20, 2017, President Trump will issue orders to sink enemy ships which ignore our warnings and will down enemy planes which fly over our military assets.”
Our problem is eight years of Democrat incompetence and corruption. The best way to make America great again is to clear out the people that have created the current situation. Hillary was part of the Obama team of failure and weakness for four years. She has no solutions. She is part of the problem.
Obama is a COWARD and the whole world spits on his legacy!
IF HITLERY CLINTON IS ALLOWED TO BECOME PRESIDENT IT’S ONLY GOING TO GET WORSE! SHE IS GEORGE SORO’S BITCH AND SOROS IS AN ADMIRER OF ADLOF HITLER AND IS SO RICH HE FEELS LIKE A GOD BY HIS OWN STATEMENT !! SOROS IS THE DESIGNER ALONG WITH THE UN OF THE ONE WORLD ORDER! TO BE RULED BY THE UN UNDER GUIDANCE OF. GEORGE SOROS! SO UNDER HITLERY’S PRESIDENCY IT WILL ONLY GET WORSE ! SINK THE SONSABI*^H’S GET TOUGH! TRUMP WOULD !!!
Weakness begets bullying. The communist Chinese, the North Koreans, the Iranians, the Russians, and others know our communist in chief is weak, and they are acting accordingly. Leading from behind is just another way of saying clueless and can only react to events. Actually, a reaction would be something. He can’t even react other than to issue some lame statement.
Time for the U.S.A. to nuke Iran off the face of the earth,along with it’s army,navy,and air force.Barack OBUNGHOLE started this
CRAP,It’s time for we Americans to END THIS CRAP AND OBUNGHOLE,NOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Shoot them out of the water. Period.
Obozo wrote in his book dreams of my father “When the rubber hits the road I am a Muslim”. Seems no one read it or just thought he was being funny, well he is a islamist who serves a little god and wants to be king of the world, while everyone is watch the elections he is writing EO’s that will give him all power over the U.S. if he declares martial law and coming sooner or later because of race tension’s and Islamist tensions and all he needs is to have a excuse or make up a excuse. He has been the best friend of Islamist since Hitler and has followed Hitlers plans from day one but, people don’t read or study real history anymore in the socialist brown shirt school systems.
Obama has set the stage for a takeover of the country. He does not really need to declare martial law nor does he need to declare a national emergency. Read the following executive order part I have included here. The rest of the order allows him and his cabinet to assume power over the US even down to the food and water we use on a daily basis.
(b) The Secretary of each agency delegated authority under subsection (a) of this section (resource departments) shall plan for and issue regulations to prioritize and allocate resources and establish standards and procedures by which the authority shall be used to promote the national defense, under both emergency and non-emergency conditions.
NOTE;******* WHAT DO THEY MEAN BY “NON-EMERGENCY CONDITIONS” AS STATED?????
**********You really need to go to this order (on the Web) and read Part 8, Section 801 Which gives the definitions of the meaning of words used in the order. Below is the last part of the order. Read it carefully to see which way you look at it.*********
“This order is not intended to, and does not, create any right or benefit, substantive or procedural, enforceable at law or in equity by any party against the United States, its departments, agencies, or entities, its officers, employees, or agents, or any other person.
BARACK OBAMA
The above statement by Obama allows for him to implement the order without the people being able to bring it to court to stop it because, no right or benefit is created for the citizens to do anything about it.
Remember, all illegals and refugees can enter the military without a loyalty oath to the US.
Bottom line: The Kenyan muslim-marxist is on their side, NOT that of the U.S. ever. To paraphrase Pogo, “We have met the enemy and he is it”.
After reading down through these posts, I am surprised that people are on the wrong track concerning Obama. we need to remember he had a a lot of Quran training as a kid.
Quran 8:59-60:
The infidels should not think that they can bypass the law of God (allah). Surely they cannot get away. Prepare against them whatever arms and cavalry you can muster, that you may strike terror in the hearts of the enemies of God I(allah) and your own, but known to God (allah).
Isn’t that exactly what Iran’s Muslim leaders are doing?
I WOULDV’E blown those !!CS’ERS!! out of the water!! Hitting the vessel in the tower first so they couldn’t send a MAYDAY!! THEN SUNK IT!!! Machine gunning any and all survivor’s. !!SHARK FOOD!!!!
ya’all call Obama a pussy, a dick but he is neither one both of which are a good part of a woman & a man. some one needs to take him & Hillary both down.———now.
Hey:
The people of this country put him in office. You wanted change. By God we got change. I,m not sure if he is the Devil or if he is that stupid. Now this election we have another Obamaite wanting to continue the same stupid polices. Lets not make the same mistake this time. We mite not another chance if we screw up again. WE have Isis, North Korea,Iran, Islam and god knows who else threatenig us. The whole world is watching us. We won’t have an ally left if we don’t stand strong.
Flash!!
Iran tried it again today and got fired on by the USN vessel.
“Turn to!”
I have said before:
Drop a clean nuke in the desert, at a safe distance from from one of their larger cities.. Let them get a good look at the fireball, then the POTUS get on TV and say: “Iran. Stop. Or the next one won’t be just a warning shot across the bow. Think we’re bluffing? Bring it.”
he obama should be tried for treason and put him in the prison down by cuba and we wont let him get lonely .we will put more of his kind in there with him and let him live with all the rats and roaches i would give him a golf club but he couldnt use it because he doesnt have any balls
They should have stuck that clown Oblameya in a circus cannon and shot him over their bow into the drink like Osama, which would have killed two birds with one stoner proving the early worm gets the bird. Go US Navy!
If obama had the status of a real president he would issue a warning to the Iranians that such conduct will not be tolerated and if it happens again the boats will be blown out of the water if they come any closer than 300 feet, because those boats could be loaded with explosives and men stupid enough to die for what they deem as glory, but of course obama is not a real president he is just the muslim occupying the white house because congress does not have the backbone or guts to impeach him
get this foreign, un-American creep out of the white house already…….sick of his crap!
If only we had a Commander in Chief.
This is what happens when you give the enemy what they want.