Iranian Boats Harass US Navy Vessels in Gulf

"Harass" meaning zip up to the "nyah-nyah" line in your Chris Craft with a machine gun, then turn around and beat feet when the 6-inch turret turns your way.

"Five small boats were acting in a very aggressive way, charging the ships, dropping boxes in the water in front of the ships and causing our ships to take evasive maneuvers," the Pentagon official said.
"There were no injuries but there very well could have been," he said, adding that the Iranian boats turned away "literally at the very moment that U.S. forces were preparing to open fire" in self defense.
He said he didn't have the precise transcript of communications that passed between the two forces, but the Iranians radioed something to the effect that "we're coming at you and you'll explode in a couple minutes."

See, the question you have to ask yourself when confronting a USN cruiser, a destroyer and a frigate in a speed boat is "Do I feel lucky"?

Well do ya, punk?

Posted by: Dave In Texas at 11:50 AM

Comments

1 Please ... I GOTS to know ...

Posted by: Stephen at January 07, 2008 11:55 AM (t6i5I)

2 To tell you the truth, in all the excitement, I forgot myself.

Posted by: Harry Callahan at January 07, 2008 11:59 AM (Xroyb)

3 *click*

Posted by: World's Most Powerful Handgun de Blog at January 07, 2008 11:59 AM (fDEB4)

4 I can't remember if I fired 5000 rounds from my CIWS or 6000.

Posted by: EC at January 07, 2008 12:04 PM (mAhn3)

5 If they're radioing to say that "you're going to explode" and giving us pretty good reason to think that they've got something to do with it, why aren't we putting basketball-sized holes in their boats?

Posted by: Gabriel Malor at January 07, 2008 12:04 PM (cyuJO)

"we're coming at you and you'll explode in a couple minutes."

It was all a misunderstanding, they had a pronoun problem.

"we're coming at you and we'll explode in a couple minutes."

Chain email of the day I got today that relates.

I was feeling depressed last week, so I called the mental health help line.

Like all other call centers, it has been outsourced to a third world location.

When I told the operator in Pakistan that I was feeling suicidal,

he got very excited and wanted to know if ..... I could drive a truck or fly a plane.

Posted by: Veeshir at January 07, 2008 12:05 PM (zXUuJ)

7 If they're radioing to say that "you're going to explode" and giving us pretty good reason to think that they've got something to do with it, why aren't we putting basketball-sized holes in their boats?

It's like when the annoying, whiny little turd badgers the star quarterback. If the quarterback ever takes a swing at him, he looks like the bad guy. Too bad we have to be more concerned about how we look than actually doing the job that needs doing.

Posted by: wiserbud at January 07, 2008 12:12 PM (wWwJR)

8 The ROE dictate when you open fire.

Posted by: Dave in Texas at January 07, 2008 12:13 PM (pzen5)

9 but yeah, I'd love to see them screw up and watch the response.

Posted by: Dave in Texas at January 07, 2008 12:15 PM (pzen5)

10 I'm sure that if there was a credible threat to the ship, they would have blown them to Kingdom Come. It's not like the Navy doesn't recognize Iranian ships as hostile.

Posted by: Techie at January 07, 2008 12:15 PM (AV8Z6)

11 I hope Operation Praying Mantis, Rev. 2.x is ready for release.

Posted by: Joe Mama at January 07, 2008 12:16 PM (0rl7n)

12 They were dropping sweets to wish us a Happy New Year.

"This baklava will explode your taste buds with delight. Happy New Year. Best Wishes for a Prosperous New Year for You and Your Family! "

P.S. "Would like to trade pixs of Flat Fatima for a copy of WoW."

P.P.S. "Death to Satan!"

Posted by: IreneFingIrene at January 07, 2008 12:25 PM (FCGJ9)

13 Come on, wingnuts. Are you so blinded by love of Bush that you don't see that this is obviously a Gulf of Tonkin incident? Jeebus, you guys are gullible.

Posted by: Another Stupid Typical Fucking Moonbat at January 07, 2008 12:26 PM (YmPwQ)

Godsdammit, wish the headline actually read:

^{Iranian Naval Craft sunk by Gilligan's Island Curse and 6-inch Shells, but mostly 6-inch Shells.}

Oh well; keep it on ice, cause sooner or later, we'll need to whip it out.

Posted by: TheEJS at January 07, 2008 12:29 PM (JyC8j)

It's all fun and games until the waterskiiers being towed by the Iranian small craft near our Navy ships turn out to be wearing life vests stuffed with C4.

Posted by: BumperStickerist at January 07, 2008 12:38 PM (UeP9e)

Isn't there an audio announcement on the ship when the guns are about to fire? Something loud, and made over the loudspeaker system, possibly just loud enough to be heard by an Iranian in an open boat a few hundred yards off? Either that, or the Iranian pilot saw the entire crew pointing their camera phones at him and knew something was about to go *boom* where he was.

--Mk45 When it absolutely positively has to be sunk right now.
--Harpoon Reach out and touch somebody
--Tomahawk When you want the wreckage to sink too

Posted by: Georg Felis at January 07, 2008 12:39 PM (RZxGq)

Over at Michele Malkins place she has a link to DU and them screaming Gulf of Tonkin within 1 minute of this hitting the news.

Me, I think it's Iran trying to influence the election. We make them go boom, moonbats go crazy, people don't want another war right now so they vote left because left says they won't go to war. Then Iran owns us.

Posted by: Quality Weenie at January 07, 2008 12:48 PM (ZM3Qb)

Posted by: Techie at January 07, 2008 01:03 PM (AV8Z6)

"Over at Michele Malkins place she has a link to DU and them screaming Gulf of Tonkin within 1 minute of this hitting the news."

That's because absolutely no country on earth can act on its own. All countries only react to the US. We are the puppetmasters.

(Man, those Kossers really have a low opinion of the "brown" people, don't they?)

Posted by: ushie at January 07, 2008 01:40 PM (8nB5X)

20 Iran doesn't have a navy!

Posted by: Ron Paul at January 07, 2008 01:40 PM (0rl7n)

21 Shit. Sink those little piss ants with the small stuff and save the Tomahawks for the moonbats at DU screaming about the Gulf of Tonkin BS.

Posted by: GrumpyUnk at January 07, 2008 01:45 PM (G3y5q)

You are all missing the implications of this. Ask yourself why would the Iranians provoke a surface action group like that? Answer: this was a dry run to see what our response would be to laying waterborne IED's in the path of our warships, they now know what our ROE's allow us to do, the next time this happens those boxes dropped in the water may be ready to go boom.

18 I find it incredibly hard to believe that ANY President, so provoked, would not declare war. Even if, God forbid, Pres. Kucinich and VP Paul were in office, if a carrier group as attacked with a loss of ships and life, they'd have no choice but to respond.
Otherwise they would face the very real possibility of a coup. Posted by: Techie at January 07, 2008 01:03 PM (AV8Z6) In the case of the Dhimmicrats yeah they would respond alright, by pulling out recall Somalia, Uss Cole, embassy bombings etc.. the response was nothing absolutely fucking nothing oh thats right the response in Somalia was to retreat so yeah there would be a response and it would be the wrong one.

Posted by: Oldcrow at January 07, 2008 01:48 PM (8X9tr)

23 I hope Operation Praying Mantis, Rev. 2.x is ready for release.

However, if they keep delaying until after November, you can bet that the Obama Virus will permanently kill the release date.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at January 07, 2008 01:55 PM (Ds4I5)

24 I think the Iranians are feeling very lucky about now. And in November of this year they may feel luckier yet, unfortunately.

Posted by: funky chicken at January 07, 2008 02:26 PM (I+jPP)

25 Five inch guns, actually. Our navy hasn't used six inchers since we retired the last of the WWII era light cruisers.

Posted by: Cybrludite at January 07, 2008 02:31 PM (tj6/6)

Five inch guns, actually. Our navy hasn't used six inchers since we retired the last of the WWII era light cruisers

Actually, I don't think that 'the missing inch' is going to be a problem in this case. You're still going to have trouble finding much wreckage.

I think that they might get a ship or two early on, but after than the planes will take over the workof chasing their little speedboats, and then the phrase "Shooting Fish in a Barrel" will have a new picture in the dictionary.

Posted by: Lokki at January 07, 2008 03:25 PM (wSBsc)

A comment from jihadwatch (which I need to stop reading because it depresses me almost as much as contemplating a Huckabee vs Obama general election):

When your enemy tells you that they want to kill you - believe them.
International waters - Reckless conduct - explicit threat - WTF? USS Cole anyone? What if they did open fire and sucessfully sank American ship(s)?
If the rules of engagement do not allow for reasonable self defense, it is time to either change the rules, or send our ships well out to sea. The straits offer limited room for maneuver, and virtually no room for error. How would you like to have a family member on board? How would you like to be the Captain of a U.S. vessel? With the current roe, you are damned if you do, and damned if you don't.
Apparently in the last several decades, we have learned very litte, or perhaps the CIC is willing to do a remake of "They Were Expendable."
We are stuck on stupid since the Beiruit Marine Barracks bombing in the Reagan era. The fools in charage are still more concerned about killing a jihadi than in protecting our own forces. If we do not intend to use force, stand down.

Posted by: funky chicken at January 07, 2008 03:36 PM (I+jPP)

28 Keep fucking around and someone is going to get an eye poked out. They are going to get more than they bargained for me thinks.

Posted by: fireman1 at January 07, 2008 04:10 PM (y+dEt)

eh, my bad.

It's the first time I ever said six inch to describe five.

As far as you know.

Posted by: Dave in Texas at January 07, 2008 06:48 PM (pzen5)

30 5-inch guns, missiles, airstrikes... overkill and beaucoup bucks to send a bathtub to the bottom...

(Not that there is such a thing as overkill when it comes to crushing your enemies, seeing them driven before you, and hearing the lamentations of their women.)

For this job, all you need is a Jarhead or a Squid that knows how to hit the broadside of a barn with a .50 and a couple hundred HE rounds.

BOOMBOOMBOOMBOOMBOOM!!! gurgle, gurgle.... Sea going raghead, say hello to Davy Jones. And BTW, good luck with the virgins thing, they're all half fish down here.

Posted by: MOMinuteman at January 07, 2008 07:27 PM (vyH0P)

31 SEND THEM TO DAVEY JONES LOCKER AND SHARK CHOW AND SEAGULL FOOD

Posted by: Spurwing Plover at January 07, 2008 11:58 PM (0eEOk)

32 "Either that, or the Iranian pilot saw the entire crew pointing their camera phones at him and knew something was about to go *boom* where he was."

The 21st Century's version of telegraphing your punch is a bunch of sailors trying to be the first to post the carnage on YouTube.

Posted by: elliot at January 08, 2008 12:04 AM (IG3+v)

Arrrrgh Matey. Fuck'em all short and tall, DRINK!!

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