Comments on: China Says U.S. Navy Ship Broke Laws

Beijing Rejects U.S. Claim Of Harassment In South China Sea, Says Ship Was Operating Illegally

[pugster]

According to wikipedia, "The mission of (USNS) Impeccable is to directly support the Navy by using SURTASS passive and active low frequency sonar arrays to detect and track undersea threats." Conducting Ocean Surveys they said, that's nothing but an understatement.

[GODSnLIBERALS]

In US media this ship has been described as a "surveillance" ship and now a "mapping" ship. But when it's a Russian or Chinese or North Korean ship it's always a "SPY SHIP."

Call a spade a spade: It's a US SPY SHIP.
Posted by gce651 at 10:23 AM : Mar 10, 2009
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*******

i call a liberal a terrorist

[straightalk]

This is clearly a SPY ship. If China is going exactly the same thing 125 miles off US coast, US would problably have blown up the spy ship already.

Onca again, Americans do what they want & everybody else are wrong!

[gce651]

In US media this ship has been described as a "surveillance" ship and now a "mapping" ship. But when it's a Russian or Chinese or North Korean ship it's always a "SPY SHIP."

Call a spade a spade: It's a US SPY SHIP.

[gdw666]

"If US coast line limit is 200 miles, this happened 125 miles off China's coast line. How does this make it International water? You are in China's territories. In addition, CBS, why don't you report what international laws that China said US broke? This story is so one sided its disgusting.
Posted by straightalk at 7:15 AM : Mar 10, 2009"

Try a little research before you rant.

The US coastal waters limit is not 200 miles, it's 12. Just as most other countries. The 200 miles is a result of the Law of the Sea Convention which proposed a 200 nautical mile exclusive economic zone with rights over the sea and the resources of the sea bed.

The ship was not involved in economic tasks, it was doing research, probably mapping the sea bed.

It was not in China's teritorial waters.

It's hard to report what laws were broken, when none were.

What's disgusting is ignorance.

[daffy64]

Obama made a big mistake by deciding to keep the military bogged down in Iraq and Afghanistan. Once he let the world know he was going to renege on his promise to pull out of Iraq, it was a clear signal that he would not be able to respond to threats in other parts of the world. It was also an indication of weak character, of a person who could not be trusted to keep his word, and of a person who would succumb to greed for oil revenue over principals of what is morally right.

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Yawn. Right.

[gdw666]

"This is a cover story or code speak for a CIA Vessel conducting ocean communications servalence."

A subject of which you obviously no nothing.

" Why else would China be so aggressive?"

Does the phrase "gamesmanship" ring any bells?

[omega39-2009]

LOL! It takes real Chutzpah for the pack of criminals that comprise the PRC to point an accusative finger at anybody...

[intheshade-2009]

Obama made a big mistake by deciding to keep the military bogged down in Iraq and Afghanistan. Once he let the world know he was going to renege on his promise to pull out of Iraq, it was a clear signal that he would not be able to respond to threats in other parts of the world. It was also an indication of weak character, of a person who could not be trusted to keep his word, and of a person who would succumb to greed for oil revenue over principals of what is morally right. The Chinese have read this, and are acting accordingly. As Joe Biden predicted, Obama is being tested.

[barbaram99]

I don't drink..Never have. I have never been to Iraland . Yet feel my forebears may have come from Iraland. I was in foster homes. I asked Gram this. She died never answering this.I say Irish .
People think the US constution goes everywhere they do even if they leave America. It stays with us Americans as long as we stay in US. Once out of America it don't. Ye subject to that nation. Americans need to 'member that..
A military ship in China's waters. It don't belong there. I can say the same about American troops in the illegal wars that bush sent them in.