About that carrier group headed to N. Korea...

tommyjo

New Member
...seems, like most things Trump, to not be true:

The Trump administration cited the deployment of the naval strike force, which includes the carrier and four warships, as a clear warning to North Korea, which was said to be planning a nuclear test last weekend in conjunction with a national holiday.

“We are sending an armada, very powerful,” to the waters off Korea, President Trump told Fox Business News on April 12.

A day earlier, Defense Secretary James N. Mattis told Pentagon reporters that the aircraft carrier was “on her way up there.”

Some news organizations cited the armada's apparent race northward as a sign of a possible preemptive attack on North Korea, spurring global concerns of a possible war.
http://www.latimes.com/politics/was...up-wasn-t-headed-to-1492544753-htmlstory.html


For more than a week, media reports in the U.S. and around Asia routinely have mentioned the approach of the aircraft carrier Carl Vinson's carrier strike group, seemingly implying an attack on North Korea could be imminent. But a week after the U.S. announced the carrier and its escorts would leave Singapore, forego port calls in Australia and instead return to Korean waters, the carrier and its group had yet to head north.

Rather, the ships were actually operating several hundred miles south of Singapore, taking part in scheduled exercises with Australian forces in the Indian Ocean.

On Saturday — according to photographs released by the U.S. Navy — the carrier passed north through the Sunda Strait, the passage between the Indonesian islands of Sumatra and Java. It's about 3,500 miles from Korea.
http://www.defensenews.com/articles/us-carrier-still-thousands-of-miles-from-korea
 

Merlin99

Visualize whirled peas
PREMO Member
I really don't think a carrier full of pissed off sailors who've just had an Australian port visit canx'd and a psycho fat kid would have been a good mix.
 

SamSpade

Well-Known Member
That's not what he said. Poor excuse but nice try covering for yet another mis-statement from our Prez.

That's like someone sitting in Wildewood saying they're heading to Gate One of the base, via Herndon, Va.

Not seeing it, but - Mattis answered this AGAIN yesterday. It's still going there. The fact that it is still going to go where it was scheduled to go previously is of no consequence.

Liberals should tread carefully over splitting hairs over precise interpretation of words - it's bitten them in the ass before.

My wife goes to church every Sunday - by way of Dunkin' Donuts - which is in the opposite direction.
If she says she's going to church, I KNOW she's going to DD first, but she is still going there.

Only liberals would wet themselves because the group isn't steaming there directly.
Heck, they must think the carrier group can move 100 miles an hour by sea the way they've bellyached.

Apparently both Russia and China are taking it seriously, since they've both taken measures - which aren't cheap - in preparation.
Only American liberals are whining about this, but - whining is their native language.
 

SamSpade

Well-Known Member
did trump say WHEN the Carrier Group was going to arrive ?

They'd be flipping out if the group did ANYTHING but head straight there at full speed and making a single stop.

It's not like they have much to work with here - what are they going to do, side with North Korea?
 

GURPS

INGSOC
PREMO Member
They'd be flipping out if the group did ANYTHING but head straight there at full speed and making a single stop.



Oh they are ...
Gizmodo had an article and 99% if the follow up comments were progressive frothing at the mouth
- Trump LIED
- Carrier not headed to Korea anytime soon



like until the carrier is off the Coast - Trumps a lair
 

SamSpade

Well-Known Member
Oh they are ...
Gizmodo had an article and 99% if the follow up comments were progressive frothing at the mouth
- Trump LIED
- Carrier not headed to Korea anytime soon



like until the carrier is off the Coast - Trumps a lair

Which is weird because if you go by that, then virtually everyone at defense lied about it.
On the face of it, it becomes a "lie" because what the Pentagon said didn't align with what the press thought it meant.

You know, they're REALLY going to have to pick their battles better.
I don't care how much people hate Trump, when the news story is about Trump telling Christie "you HAVE to try the meat loaf" or Kellyanne having her feet on the couch - how is anyone going to take you seriously?

They think if they just hit every facet, they'll win points.
It means people who hate him will love every morsel - but everyone else is going to eventually ignore it.
 

Hijinx

Well-Known Member
Which is weird because if you go by that, then virtually everyone at defense lied about it.
On the face of it, it becomes a "lie" because what the Pentagon said didn't align with what the press thought it meant.

You know, they're REALLY going to have to pick their battles better.
I don't care how much people hate Trump, when the news story is about Trump telling Christie "you HAVE to try the meat loaf" or Kellyanne having her feet on the couch - how is anyone going to take you seriously?

They think if they just hit every facet, they'll win points.
It means people who hate him will love every morsel - but everyone else is going to eventually ignore it.

I like the battles they pick. Helps show how wrong and really stupid they are.
 

GURPS

INGSOC
PREMO Member
They think if they just hit every facet, they'll win points.
It means people who hate him will love every morsel - but everyone else is going to eventually ignore it.



Trump is headed to a 2nd Term at this point
 
Not seeing it, but - Mattis answered this AGAIN yesterday. It's still going there. The fact that it is still going to go where it was scheduled to go previously is of no consequence.

Saw that. He said it will be going there when he decides it should go there, but it will be going.
 

BOP

Well-Known Member
Not seeing it, but - Mattis answered this AGAIN yesterday. It's still going there. The fact that it is still going to go where it was scheduled to go previously is of no consequence.

Liberals should tread carefully over splitting hairs over precise interpretation of words - it's bitten them in the ass before.

My wife goes to church every Sunday - by way of Dunkin' Donuts - which is in the opposite direction.
If she says she's going to church, I KNOW she's going to DD first, but she is still going there.

Only liberals would wet themselves because the group isn't steaming there directly.
Heck, they must think the carrier group can move 100 miles an hour by sea the way they've bellyached.

Apparently both Russia and China are taking it seriously, since they've both taken measures - which aren't cheap - in preparation.
Only American liberals are whining about this, but - whining is their native language.

Stealing it.
 
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