WAR - USS Nimitz carrier group rerouted to Syria

 

Caesar Obama builds his war machine

Obama declared Syria "guilty" before any evidence had even

been collected.  Now the navy is moving in.

Hail Caesar.

The nuclear-powered aircraft carrier USS Nimitz and other ships in its strike group are heading west toward the Red Sea to help support  U.S. strikes on Syria, if needed, defense officials said on Sunday.

The Nimitz carrier strike group, which includes four destroyers and a cruiser, has no specific orders to move to the eastern Mediterranean at this point, but is moving west in the Arabian Sea so it can do so if asked. It was not immediately clear when the ships would enter the Red Sea, but they had not arrived by Sunday evening, said one official.

“It’s about leveraging the assets to have them in place should the capabilities of the carrier strike group and the presence be needed,” said the official said Reuters News.

President Barack Obama on Saturday delayed imminent cruise missile strikes by five destroyers off the coast of Syria, and sought approval from Congress, a move that effectively put any strike on hold for at least nine days.

The delay gives military planners more time to reassess which ships and other weapons will be kept in the region – and which may be swapped out – before the U.S. military launches what defense officials say is still intended to be a limited and narrowly targeted attack on Syria.

The U.S. Navy doubled its presence in the eastern Mediterranean over the past week, effectively adding two destroyers to the three that generally patrol the region.

The destroyers are carrying a combined load of about 200 Tomahawk missiles, but officials say a limited strike on Syria could be accomplished with half that number.

The Nimitz carrier group had been in the Indian Ocean supporting U.S. operations in Afghanistan but was due to sail east around Asia to return to its home port in Everett, Washington, after being relieved in recent days by another aircraft carrier, the USS Harry S. Truman.

Given the situation in Syria, U.S. military officials decided to reroute the Nimitz and send it west toward the Red Sea, and possibly the Mediterranean, officials said.

"Leveraged Assets"
“It’s about leveraging the assets to have them in place . . . " said a hack at the defense department.  Funny how the bastards 4,000 miles away from any danger to themselves consider our service men and women on the front lines to be "assets" to be moved around like toys on a big map of the world.
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Oh how I wish for the days when real men who understood the military occupied the White House.  Men like General George Washington, General Andrew Jackson, General Zachary Taylor, General Franklin Pierce, General U.S. Grant, General Rutherford B. Hayes, General Benjamin Harrison and General Dwight Eisenhower.
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But instead of real men with real world experience, America has long been ruled by series of political hacks and draft dodgers masquerading as leaders of men.  So-called "leaders" wanting to look macho using men better than themselves as pawns in international games.

"The constitution vests the power of declaring war in Congress; therefore no offensive expedition of importance can be undertaken until after they shall have deliberated upon the subject and authorized such a measure."

George Washington
(1793)