Nuke carrier leads US strike force into Syrian waters

November 25, 2011 14:34

Nuclear aircraft carrier USS George HW Bush has reportedly anchored off Syria. As an Arab League deadline to allow observers into the country passes with no response from Damascus, the possibility of intervention in Syria seems to be growing.

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Tony (unregistered) 19.03.2012 11:22

Why don't we have military exercises with all the countries U.S., U.K. ,France, Russia & Chinese forces in the med, Along with all  their war-mongering politicians, fat cat bankers et al.!! Then all of us normal decent people the world over can get on with our lives without them!! 

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nazdaro 21.02.2012 02:09

Where are Tom Cruise , Steeven Seagall (I like him) Bruce willis, etc... it will look a lot more serious than those Puppet generals of the ben at gone!

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dixienormns 22.12.2011 14:10

sink it russia

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ponyman 28.11.2011 12:22

I'd love to see that monstrosity get sunk.

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thughes219 28.11.2011 07:29

"USS George Bush reportedly anchored off the coast of Syria." Reported by whom? US Navy reports USS George Bush passed through the Suez Canal on 11/20 and arrived on 11/25 at Marseilles, France for a scheduled port call. Too much trouble to pick up the phone and call someone in Marseilles to verify that indeed the USS George Bush is there? How about a little fact checking rather than putting out slanted stories to get people all excited.

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Brian (unregistered) 27.11.2011 17:28

Toilet troubles plague sailors aboard George H.W. Bush’s namesake aircraft carrier
Trouble with toilets on the aircraft carrier named for former President and Houston resident George H.W. Bush is adding to sailors’ deployment stress and damaging morale, according to reports in The Virginian Pilot and Navy Times.   It s no laughing matter, says the Navy Times.   Sail ors tell of combing the ship for up to an hour to find a place to do their business, if they can find one at all. Others have resorted to urinating in showers or into the industrial sinks in their work stations. Some men are using bottles and emptying the contents over the giant ship’s side, while some women are holding it in for so long that they are developing health problems, according to sources on the ship.   The sailors blame the ship’s vacuum system. But the Navy is blaming sailors for flushing “inappropriate material” down the toilets.   Th e USS George H.W. Bush, named in honor of the 41st president, was commissioned in January 2009.   The problem appears to be a vacuum system that pulls waste through hundreds of miles of pipes on the ship. The system is the first of its kind in an aircraft carrier, but similar to those commonly used on airplanes and cruise ships.   “W hen I was unable to relieve myself for two days, I was irate to say the least,” said Frakes, an aviation mechanic.   M ore from the Pilot: The wife of another Bush sailor – she asked not to be named for fear that her husband would be punished – said her husband began telling her about the outages months ago.   “It sounds like a nightmare – having to run all around the ship to find a working toilet,” she said. “He’s told me it’s made it one of the hardest cruises he’s done.”   Sa ilors are limiting their food water intake so they will need the bathroom less often, the Pilot reports. At least one was recently disciplined after urinating somewhere he shouldn’t have. Maybe Bush Sr. can recommend a good plumber?

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aussi 27.11.2011 16:40

i believe the US has put it self in a pickle in regards to Syria they played a dangerous game before the end of the year when their invasion of Iraq will be coming to and end and gambled on bringing down Bashar that way Hezbollah will be next and finally getting to Iran which works in favor of Israel because lets face it Americans may live in America but Israel and the Zionist dictatorship controls the US government, so the US has gambled Egypt and Libia in order to get to Syria and i truly believe they have field. the arab league is a joke, arabs do not support them as they are a bunch of dirty camel f*cking losers whom oppress their people and have been put their by the Zionist dictatorship, once the US withdraws from Iraq i believe Syria will come out victorious

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Otis (unregistered) 27.11.2011 05:49

And the reason for the genocide in Africa and the slaughter of innocents around the world is that the tyrants in Russia (and China) believe that protecting their fellow tyrants under the guise of non-interference in a sovereign nation is more important than stopping mass murders.

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paul honnor 27.11.2011 02:10

New World Order wrote in #4
paul honnor Any chance the Americans may want to stop the killing in Palestine, Latin America, Afghanistan, Somalia, Yemen, Bahrain, Pakistan?
No, not until russia plays its part in the New World Order and step up to the mark, problem being is russia needs the west to buy its fuel

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Teej 27.11.2011 01:37

The US aircraft carrier was never off Syria. It transited from the Suez and headed for France on the 25th. It is currently anchored in Marseille, France. This is one of its routes on its way home.

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Teej 27.11.2011 01:32

oxi wrote in #15 Can anybody track the Russian aircraft carrier in the Mediterranean Sea right now?  Oxi,&nbs p;There is no Russian aircraft carrier currently in the Mediterranean Sea. It is still in the Barents Sea preparing for deployment during December.

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montana81 26.11.2011 23:31

the arabs never know what they want simply cos they never had the chance to ask themselves that question , theres plenty of space to create a island where people who wish to live in the stone age can happily get along with each other , wonder how many would actually go not as many as would say they would i bet my bottom dollar on that, these so called terrorists all the same talk big, back down and shut up quick, no wonder no git takes these threats seriously especially the russians flexing old and tired cold war muscles  

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Alex McShera 26.11.2011 21:34

The only reason the Arab League is behaving so diabolically is because the Qatari rats have the chair.

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well 26.11.2011 18:12

The truth is that russia is very very weak people the best bet is China which I am sure have send people to stop the war on the ground that nato and turkey US already fighting. Next 5 years china will be the top no more IMF/word bank with them silly policies to open account and money deposits. Yes new world order is what the US is fighting they need this to help them economy. After this will be iran then the real job the home land of russia with syria and iran out no missile coming from behind them.

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hopeleaves 26.11.2011 17:34

Man, the tinfoil hat wearers are out in force today... The reason Russia is letting this happen is because they know the US, Europe, and the world is right about Syria. It's a shame the Russian govt stands with murdering dictators like Assad, selling them missile systems and allowing them to gun down their own people. They are not Syrian people's "friends". The Russian govt. will do what they always did when the US ended Russian-made conflicts- make threats then stand down when the pressure is on.

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New World Order 26.11.2011 15:58

paul honnor Any chance the Americans may want to stop the killing in Palestine, Latin America, Afghanistan, Somalia, Yemen, Bahrain, Pakistan?

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The Prophet 26.11.2011 14:09

"The Third World War must be fomented by taking advantage of the differences caused by the "agentur" of the "Illuminati" between the political Zionists and the leaders of Islamic World. The war must be conducted in such a way that Islam (the Moslem Arabic World) and political Zionism (the State of Israel) mutually destroy each other. Meanwhile the other nations, once more divided on this issue will be constrained to fight to the point of complete physical, moral, spiritual and economical exhaustion…We shall unleash the Nihilists and the atheists, and we shall provoke a formidable social cataclysm which in all its horror will show clearly to the nations the effect of absolute atheism, origin of savagery and of the most bloody turmoil. Then everywhere, the citizens, obliged to defend themselves against the world minority of revolutionaries, will exterminate those destroyers of civilization, and the multitude, disillusioned with Christianity, whose deistic spirits will from that moment be without compass or direction, anxious for an ideal, but without knowing where to render its adoration, will receive the true light through the universal manifestation of the pure doctrine of Lucifer, brought finally out in the public view. This manifestation will result from the general reactionary movement which will follow the destruction of Christianity and atheism, both conquered and exterminated at the same time."

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Vulture 26.11.2011 11:59

USA is exactly like NAZI Germany in the 1930`s. Only difference is that the propaganda the media uses in the west is designed to HIDE the NAZI type ideology behind their current actions. Clearly the lesson from WWll was dont let them know we intend to gain a fascist world domination for our Zionist super race.

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paul honnor 26.11.2011 09:37

Russia keeps saying no any intervention but doesn't come up with any plans herself to stop the killing in Syria, until she does no one will listen.

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