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To: Perdogg

They should park that aircraft carrier right where Brit sailors were captured. Let’s see what they are made of.


10 posted on 04/29/2008 5:25:04 PM PDT by o-n-money
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To: o-n-money
They should park that aircraft carrier right where Brit sailors were captured. Let’s see what they are made of.

You and the Commander of the task force would have to be insane to send an aircraft carrier that close in to Angry Ayatollahs with shore to ship missiles.

Maybe send in a Destroyer or Frigate as "bait". Or something faster, like Pegasus class hydrofoil. If we hadn't cut those due to Navy budget cuts by BJ, "Slick Willy" Clinton. They made there final fligh" from Florida to Virginia in 1993, as a group. That was during the reign of the husband of Her Thighness.

They were armed with 76 mm naval guns and Harpoon Missiles, as well as

22 posted on 04/29/2008 6:04:42 PM PDT by El Gato ("The Second Amendment is the RESET button of the United States Constitution." -- Doug McKay)
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To: o-n-money

“They should park that aircraft carrier right where Brit sailors were captured. Let’s see what they are made of.”

That would be an extraordinarily dumb place to park a carrier.


41 posted on 04/30/2008 3:18:01 AM PDT by Dave Elias
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