US deploys carrier strike group to send 'clear and unmistakable message' to Iran

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

Source: The Hill

The United States is deploying a carrier strike group and a bomber task force to the Middle East in response to what it called "troubling and escalatory indications and warnings" from Iran, national security adviser John Bolton announced on Sunday.

Bolton said in a statement that the USS Abraham Lincoln Carrier Strike Group and a bomber task force would be deployed to a region overseen by the Pentagon's U.S. Central Command, whose areas of responsibility include the Middle East.

"In response to a number of troubling and escalatory indications and warnings, the United States is deploying the USS Abraham Lincoln Carrier Strike Group and a bomber task force to the U.S. Central Command region to send a clear and unmistakable message to the Iranian regime that any attack on United States interests or on those of our allies will be met with unrelenting force," Bolton said.

"The United States is not seeking war with the Iranian regime, but we are fully prepared to respond to any attack, whether by proxy, the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, or regular Iranian forces."

Read more: https://thehill.com/policy/defense/442229-us-deploys-carrier-strike-group-to-send-clear-and-unmistakable-message-to-iran

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Oh bullshit Bolton

[Harker]

1. Tick...tick...tick... n/t

[sakabatou]

2. Another distraction

[at140]

3. Trump is preparing for war with Iran...

Just like Bush-43's dream was to change regime in Iraq, Trump is wetting his panties about Iran.
If Mueller report was conclusively against Trump, Iran war would have already started.

[Cryptoad]

5. Bolton and Miller have to wear condoms thinking abt it

[at140]

6. LOL...not far fetched thought!

Especially Bolton, who never met a war he did not like.

[Marcuse]

7. Provided he didn't have to actually fight.

[at140]

10. None of the war mongers go into combat!

I can't think of a single leader fighting in combat since Napoleon Bonaparte.

[LuvLoogie]

11. John F. Kennedy, George Herbert Walker Bush,

Teddy Roosevelt, Ulysses S. Grant.

[at140]

12. You missed my point a little bit

That was BEFORE they became leaders. Even Hitler was a corporal in army.
But all his war mongering was AFTER he became leader of the Third Reich.
But did Hitler go to the front to fight in combat? NO!

Did Bush-41 go to the front in Kuwait to dislodge Iraqi army? NO!

JFK got US involved in Vietnam after he was elected president.
He did not captain any speed boats in Vietnam while president.

[LuvLoogie]

15. No, I caught your meaning, but you would have to question

the sanity of any modern head of state that would "armor up" as a combatant.

That said, the term "chicken hawk" applies in many cases, Bolton and trump being examples.

The formula of conquest in order to rule is too dated and dangerous for most power banks. They don't have to destroy another country in order to destroy it.

[at140]

25. If you are going to send young men & women to risk

their lives in combat, why should those leaders who send them should stay safely behind?
Alexander the Great never did.
Napoleon Bonaparte fought with soldiers.
Shivaji who liberated India from Mughal rulers never stayed behind.
Trump should send Don Jr & Eric to lead the attack on Iran.
Otherwise Trump is another chicken hawk.

[emmaverybo]

4. Scary. nt

[Gore1FL]

8. Unmistakable message:

"We have boats, and we aren't afraid to use them."

[pangaia]

9. Somebody PLEASE lock bolton in a padded cell. He is insane !!

[UpInArms]

13. Donny Dotard is very very frightened

🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬

[Eugene]

14. The Latest: Possible attack on US forces led to deployments

Source: Associated Press

The Latest: Possible attack on US forces led to deployments

44 minutes ago

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Latest on United States and Iran (all times local):

10:25 p.m.

A U.S. defense official says the deployments of an aircraft carrier strike group and land-based bombers to the Middle East are in response to indications that Iran and its proxy forces were preparing to possibly attack U.S. forces in the region.

The defense official tells The Associated Press that the Pentagon approved the deployments of the USS Abraham Lincoln and its strike group of ships and combat aircraft.

The official says U.S. forces at sea and on land were thought to be the potential targets. The official wasn’t authorized to discuss the matter publicly and requested anonymity.

A White House statement says the military resources were deployed to send a message to Iran that “unrelenting force” will meet any attack on U.S. interests or those of its allies.

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Read more: https://apnews.com/b64d3f60cc5d4db5a812b4d11e39a0da

[watoos]

19. A US Defense official is an anonymous source.

Iran didn't do anything to provoke the US, Trump got his countries mixed up, it was N. Korea.

[sinkingfeeling]

20. An imagined, possible plan to attack US interests is now like the imagined WMDs.

A reason for US to start a military action.

[B Stieg]

16. Sounds like Billy Barr wrote Bolton a memo! nt

[pazzyanne]

17. But he ignores Russia moving into the new world,

and North Korea's expanding their nuclear options. Tell me again how tRump is representing the United States of America.

[infullview]

18. Here comes the war...

Next tRump will claim martial law and delay elections. He's following the dictator's playbook.

[Ramsey Barner]

21. Time for Trump's aides to suggest another golf outing

Otherwise, the stable genius will let Bolton create a Mustache Cloud over Tehran.

[Blues Heron]

22. Surely it's a humanitarian mission to help with the floods?

what? No? Then F these violent-thinking fuckwits.

[Bayard]

23. No need for bombing in this day and age

Except boys wanting to play with their toys.

I'd like to hear these, "indications". Sabre rattling? Something worth starting another war over? Just in time for 2020 elections, to get MAGA's more riled up, along with the brain dead who always say you should support a prez in times of war.

[Firestorm49]

24. OIL.......OIL.......OIL......Give us more OIL!!"!!

[kimbutgar]

26. Wag the dog situation he needs to get the press off the mueller report

Msnbc this am discussing but saying it is the US trying to provoke Iran into a war. Iran knows that the orange anus and Bolton want a war and they will not respond. And that nut job in Israel also is pushing for a war with Iran.

[yaesu]

27. Now they are claiming Iranian Threat Targeting American Troops in Iraq as the reason. nt