XPost: alt.politics.obama, talk.politics.misc, us.military.navy

On Mon, 16 May 2016 20:36:54 +0000 (UTC), "Leroy N. Soetoro" <[email protected]> wrote:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/05/12/us-navy-fires-commander-of- >sailors-who-were-captured-by-iran-aft/

The commander of 10 American sailors who were detained after entering
Iran�s territorial waters has been fired after the United States navy said
it had lost confidence in him.

Commander Eric Rasch was the executive commander of a squadron that
included the personnel who were briefly held after January�s incident,
which embarrassed President Barack Obama�s administration at a time when
it was in the process of implementing a deal over Iran�s nuclear
programme.

An internal inquiry concluded that his poor leadership contributed to the >incident that saw two armed navy vessels, known as riverine command boats, >straying into Iranian waters while sailing from Kuwait to Bahrain, the
site of the US navy�s 5th fleet.

I'm not convinced they "strayed" .....

Timing was just WAY too convenient.

And how would OUR military react if they found a couple
boatloads of N.Korean soldiers on a beach near a military
base ? Damned straight they'd be on their knees with
their hands on their heads ... and we'd take pictures too.

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