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The USS Eisenhower Strike Group transited the Suez Canal from the Persian Gulf Saturday, Dec. 1, sailing up to the Syrian coast Tuesday in a heavy storm, with 8 fighter bomber squadrons of Air Wing Seven on its decks and 8,000 sailors, airmen and Marines.
The USS Eisenhower group joins the USS Iwo Jima Amphibious Ready Group which carries 2,500 Marines.
Facing Syria now are 10,000 US fighting men, 70 fighter-bombers and at least 17 warships, including the three Iwo Jima amphibious craft, a guided missile cruiser and 10 destroyers and frigates.
Four of these vessels are armed with Aegis missile interceptors.
This mighty US armada brings immense pressure to bear on the beleaguered Assad regime after it survied an almost two-year buffeting by an armed uprising. Its presence indicates that the United States now stands ready for direct military intervention in the Syrian conflict when the weather permits.
Left behind in the Persian Gulf is just one US aircraft carrier, the USS Stennis and its strike group.
Welcoming NATO’s decision Tuesday, Dec. 4, to deploy Patriot missile batteries in Turkey, Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu said Wednesday: “The protection from NATO will be three dimensional; one is the short-range Patriots, the second is the middle-range Terminal High Altitude Air Defense [THAD] system and the last is the AEGIS system, which counters missiles that can reach outside the atmosphere.”
debkafile’s military sources: While the Patriot is land-based and will be deployed on the Turkish-Syrian border, the THAD and the Aegis have just reached the Syrian coast aboard the USS Eisenhower strike group.
“With this integrated system,” said Davutoglu, Turkey will have maximum protection.”
He added: “The Syrian regime has 700 missiles,” and their location, storage method and holders are no secret to Ankara. This was the first time Ankara had made threats to destroy Syrian missiles, including any carrying chemical warheads.
Originally posted by orangutang
reply to post by MrSpad
the real reality may scare you silly.
over 140 years ago albert pike conceived a plan. he was an army man whose atrocities shocked other nations.
here's a letter he sent to a friend back in 1871;-
Pike designed a plan for world conquest and wrote of it in a letter to Mazzini dated August 15, 1871. He said three future world wars would prepare the world for the New World Order.
""Albert Pike's plan for the Illuminati was as simple as it has proved effective. He required that Communism, Naziism, Political Zionism, and other International movements be organized and used to foment the three global wars and three major revolutions. The First World War was to be fought so as to enable the Illuminati to overthrow the powers of the Tzars in Russia and turn that country into the stronghold of Atheistic-Communism. The differences stirred up by agentur of the Illuminati between the British and German Empires were to be used to foment this war. After the war ended, Communism was to be built up and used to destroy other governments and weaken religions.
World War Two, was to be fomented by using the differences between Fascists and Political Zionists. This war was to be fought so that Naziism would be destroyed and the power of Political Zionism increased so that the sovereign state of Israel could be established in Palestine. During World War Two International Communism was to be built up until it equalled in strength that of united Christendom. At this point it was to be contained and kept in check until required for the final social cataclysm. Can any informed person deny Roosevelt and Churchill did put this policy into effect?
World War Three is to be fomented by using the differences the agentur of the Illuminati stir up between Political Zionists and the leaders of the Moslem world. The war is to be directed in such a manner that Islam (the Arab World including Mohammedanism) and Political Zionism (including the State of Israel) will destroy themselves while at the same time the remaining nations, once more divided against each other on this issue, will be forced to fight themselves into a state of complete exhaustion physically, mentally, spiritually and economically. Can any unbiased and reasoning person deny that the intrigue now going on in the Near, Middle, and Far East is designed to accomplish this devilish purpose?
After World War Three is ended, those who aspire to undisputed world domination will provoke the greatest social cataclysm the world has ever known. We quote his own written words taken from the letter catalogued in the British Museum Library, London, England.
"We shall unleash the Nihilists and 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 be from that moment without compass (direction), anxious for an ideal, but with out 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, a manifestation which will result from the general reactionary movement which will follow the destruction of Christianity and atheism, both conquered and exterminated at the same time" (William Guy Carr, Pawns in the Game, p. xv-xvi).""
it happens with Complete Control, of that i have no doubt.
www.biblebelievers.org.au...
edit on 10-12-2012 by orangutang because: added link
Originally posted by jhn7537
reply to post by hawkiye
So are you suggesting that Syria shouldn't be stopped?
“We’ll not allow the Libyan experience to be reproduced in Syria. Unfortunately our Western partners have departed from the Geneva accords and are seeking the departure of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad,”
"All attempts to present the situation differently are rather shady, even for the diplomacy of those countries that are known for striving to distort facts in their own favor."
Originally posted by orangutang
reply to post by longlostbrother
www.atlanteanconspiracy.com...
libertyforlife.com...
elitistdeception.blogspot.com.au...
www.youtube.com...
here's a selection from google to reduce your ignorance should you be interested.
then there's this
www.abovetopsecret.com...
to illustrate how controlled everything is.
enjoy
Originally posted by HabiruThorstein
AAAARRRRGH! Assad is being setup, the people/sheeple are buying off on it since MSM is selling The Lie....AGAIN!
Ya know, as true conservative, not a neo-con, but a true to the original defintion conservative, I really need to see Obama finally earn that b.s. Peace Prize from a few years back. Syria won't attack Turkey, we have no business telling Syria what to do. They may not like the US or it's citizens, they may be a Putin client state, but that's still not for the US, Europe or NATO to decide militarily unless threatened and Syria isn't doing that. I'm no fan of Assad, but there's nothing his attackers have done to show themselves as anything but opportunistic terrorists. Many of those 'rebels' are not even Syrian, which of course means they aren;t rebels they are invaders.
Someone in the West needs to stop this now.
edit on 10-12-2012 by HabiruThorstein because: grammar
Originally posted by HabiruThorstein
reply to post by longlostbrother
Understood longlostbrother, but putting more hardware and troops right next to a powder keg is asking for trouble. Human fallibility alone can cause a cascade of crap with one ill-timed mistake. Much less a few opportunists looking for sparks to a flame. I don't like the margin for error, and I don't trust the anti-Syrian rhetoric I see in the MSM.
Originally posted by longlostbrother
Originally posted by HabiruThorstein
reply to post by longlostbrother
Understood longlostbrother, but putting more hardware and troops right next to a powder keg is asking for trouble. Human fallibility alone can cause a cascade of crap with one ill-timed mistake. Much less a few opportunists looking for sparks to a flame. I don't like the margin for error, and I don't trust the anti-Syrian rhetoric I see in the MSM.
We don't disagree. But you gotta remember, like someone else on the thread has started, the US always puts troop close to insane situations like this. Always.
I don't like it exactly, but also have seen it happen dozens of times without it resulting in wars or invasions that I'm not that nervous about it.
Obama likes drones and likes "finishing missions" but so far, unless you include Libya, which I don't, no new big wars. A moderately hopeful sign.
Long may it last.
Originally posted by HabiruThorstein
Originally posted by longlostbrother
Originally posted by HabiruThorstein
reply to post by longlostbrother
Understood longlostbrother, but putting more hardware and troops right next to a powder keg is asking for trouble. Human fallibility alone can cause a cascade of crap with one ill-timed mistake. Much less a few opportunists looking for sparks to a flame. I don't like the margin for error, and I don't trust the anti-Syrian rhetoric I see in the MSM.
We don't disagree. But you gotta remember, like someone else on the thread has started, the US always puts troop close to insane situations like this. Always.
I don't like it exactly, but also have seen it happen dozens of times without it resulting in wars or invasions that I'm not that nervous about it.
Obama likes drones and likes "finishing missions" but so far, unless you include Libya, which I don't, no new big wars. A moderately hopeful sign.
Long may it last.
100% with you there, I hope it's a short stay with lots of boredom for the uniformed boys and that Damascus gets back to peace for their sakes soon.
Originally posted by Signals
reply to post by jhn7537
The Syrian Government has every right to expel foreign terrorists and rebels trying to overthrow them....
We have no right to intervene.
See recent events in Libya & Egypt and their outcome if you disagree.
This is a ploy to let the Muslim Brotherhood take over the entire Middle East.