Ship of the desert
Somebody should have looked at a map.
The State Department with great fanfare on Tuesday signed an agreement with landlocked Mongolia that will allow Mongolian ships to be boarded and searched if they are suspected of carrying weapons of mass destruction.
This despite the fact that Mongolia — a vast land that’s home to the Gobi Desert, windswept steppes and largely populated by nomadic yak herders — has no navy at all and lies thousands of miles from open waters.
Asked what Washington hoped to achieve with the agreement, State Department spokesman Sean McCormack said “I’ll have to check.”
He did know that whatever the payoff was – Mongolia was a key part of the “Proliferation Security Initiative that aims to halt trade in nuclear, chemical and biological weapons.”
It’s going to protect the children, too.
Only could Bushco, Inc. do that. Maybe they know something about climate change that we don’t.
As a tax payer I am angry that I have to pay for these people’s salaries.
I’m so thankful to the US for protecting us all from the terrifying threat of Mongolian WMD. At last I can sleep at night.
You guys are such knee-jerk asshats it makes be laugh.
While Mongolia has no navy they do have 289 ships that are registered and flying the Mongolian flag. A simple Google of ‘Mogolian Registered Ships’ turned up that little peice of info.
The flagging of ships is just another business. Registry in a particular country signifies where the check was sent and doesn’t imply anything about the ownership or origin of a vessel.
#5 – you don’t really expect one of our tiny clique of nutjob neocons to care about reality, do you?
BTW – Mongolia does have an “official” navy. All three “ships” live on a lake. 🙂
5. Yes you are right. But if your ship is Mongolian registry you are bound by this treaty.
Oh and BTW this treaty and the others we have like it don’t apply to warships so even if Mongolia had a blue water navy it wouldn’t apply.
#6 And it doesn’t surprise me that one of the knee-jerk asshats doesn’t care to be bothered by the facts.
Of course, witnessing a nutjob lauding the Federal nutjobs for signing a treaty is hilarious – since our Bush League government only honors treaties from week-to-week depending on the latest apocalyptic guidance.
And it starts with a Bush League “spokesman” who needs to go and ask his monitor for the answer to a simple question. He might slip and accidentally tell the truth on his own.
Ships of the Desert?
Yea, filled with Arab seamen.
Mongolia is right next to China. Look for a “Naval Inspection Post” right on the border or a hidden protocol somewhere in the agreement.
Sheesh, gang! look at a map!
The truth behind this is that Dumbya went to a Chinese restaurant with some Admiral, ordered the Mongolian beef, looked out the window at the ocean, and in his complete paranoia suddenly imagined the invading Mongolian hordes sailing in their ships to destroy America. He immediately ordered that the Mongolian Navy be dealt with… no excuses, he is the decider and he has decided. Since Dumbya never learned to read a map, and nobody had the balls to tell him the truth, Dumbya now has a fine new treaty to be proud of.
When you think about it, it’s actually a good thing!
After 7 years of failed and destructive government, Dumbya finally has accomplished ONE thing: The Mongolian Navy control treaty! Yay! We should declare today a national holiday!
At least they haven’t pushed the Law of the Sea Treaty through.
Certainly, don’t let your own ignorance get in the way of slamming the Bush administration. 🙂