About that Carrier Group now in Iran's back yard

[charlie and algernon]

who the hell puts a large carrier group within range of anti-ship missiles? The Iranians have been importing the Chinese made C-802 anti-ship missilies and placing them on their ships and the mountians over looking the Gulf. These aren't cheap missiles, but damn good ones.

From Wilkipedia:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C-802
The Yingji-82 or YJ-82 (Chinese: 鹰击-82, literally "Eagle Strike"; NATO reporting name: CSS-N-8 Saccade) is a Chinese anti-ship missile first unveiled in 1989 by the China Haiying Electro-Mechanical Technology Academy (CHETA), also known as the Third Academy. Since the Yingji-82 missile has a small radar reflectivity and is only about five to seven meters above the sea surface when it attacks the target, and since its guidance equipment has strong anti-jamming capability, target ships have a very low success rate in intercepting the missile. The hit probability of the Yingji-82 is estimated to be as high as 98 percent. The Yingji-82 can be launched from airplanes, surface ships, submarines and land-based vehicles, and has been considered along with the US Harpoon missile as among the best anti-ship missiles of its generation.<1> Its export name is the C-802.

Is our administration that dumb to put up to 15,000 sailors and marines within striking distance of VERY good missiles??? WTF IS WRONG WITH THESE PEOPLE!!!!!!!!!