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Leon Panetta: US to deploy 60% of navy fleet to Pacific
BBC ^ | 06/02/12

Posted on 06/02/2012 3:40:54 AM PDT by TigerLikesRooster

2 June 2012 Last updated at 03:54 GMT

Leon Panetta: US to deploy 60% of navy fleet to Pacific

The US is planning to move the majority of its warships to the Asia-Pacific region by 2020, Defence Secretary Leon Panetta has revealed.

He said that by 2020 about 60% of the US fleet would be deployed there, in the clearest indication yet of the new US strategy in Asia.

Mr Panetta told a regional security meeting in Singapore that the shift was not aiming to contain Chinese power.

Beijing has indicated it is unhappy with the US boosting its presence.

Last November, President Barack Obama announced that the Asia-Pacific region was a "top priority" of US security policy

(Excerpt) Read more at bbc.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Front Page News; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: china; usnavy
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1 posted on 06/02/2012 3:41:10 AM PDT by TigerLikesRooster
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P!


2 posted on 06/02/2012 3:43:08 AM PDT by TigerLikesRooster (The way to crush the bourgeois is to grind them between the millstones of taxation and inflation)
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Bad news for East Coast shipyards and naval air stations.


3 posted on 06/02/2012 3:44:41 AM PDT by Timber Rattler (Just say NO! to RINOS and the GOP-E)
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Time to deploy Peon Lanetta to Pluto.


4 posted on 06/02/2012 3:45:37 AM PDT by fieldmarshaldj (If you like lying Socialist dirtbags, you'll love Slick Willard)
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Thw way things are going that will be 6 ships to the Pacific, leaving the remaining 4 in the Atlantic ...


5 posted on 06/02/2012 4:03:33 AM PDT by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now it is your turn ...)
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Thw way things are going that will be 6 ships to the Pacific, leaving the remaining 4 in the Atlantic ...

All crewed by faggots and splittails.

6 posted on 06/02/2012 4:05:15 AM PDT by central_va ( I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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To: TigerLikesRooster

Damn Nixon and Kissinger for opening up China to the USA


7 posted on 06/02/2012 4:22:20 AM PDT by uncbob
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Something must be in the works for the atlantic so we are unprepared


8 posted on 06/02/2012 4:25:58 AM PDT by ronnie raygun (B B)
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Something must be in the works for the atlantic so we are deliberatley unprepared


9 posted on 06/02/2012 4:26:30 AM PDT by ronnie raygun (B B)
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WTF
Peternose what are you and the idiot doing?
10 posted on 06/02/2012 4:27:53 AM PDT by DeaconRed (My vote in Nov will be dictated by my extreme hatred for ZERO and what he is doing to our country.)
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This is a good thing. China wants blue-water capability but is still far from getting it. We must keep them in check.
11 posted on 06/02/2012 4:32:50 AM PDT by moonshot925
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Great !

Base some of them in Kaoshiung Taiwan. I can have a USA Sailors bar opened there in 3 months!
12 posted on 06/02/2012 4:35:27 AM PDT by Tainan (Cogito, ergo conservatus sum)
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like LBJ...this doooooosh will tell our enemies our plans.

what a maroon.


13 posted on 06/02/2012 4:45:41 AM PDT by Vaquero (Don't pick a fight with an old guy. If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you.)
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“Bar”? Surely, you don’t mean a drinking bar, since drinking is heavily, heavily frowned upon in this Navy.


14 posted on 06/02/2012 4:46:46 AM PDT by ryan71
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To: uncbob
Damn Nixon and Kissinger for opening up China to the USA

wage and price freeze Nixon was no conservative....he was a pompous a$$.

15 posted on 06/02/2012 4:48:40 AM PDT by Vaquero (Don't pick a fight with an old guy. If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you.)
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Good news for naval shipyards and air stations in the reliably liberal states of California, Oregon, Washington, and Hawaii. Coincidence?


16 posted on 06/02/2012 4:53:48 AM PDT by Pollster1 (A boy becomes a man when a man is needed - John Steinbeck)
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To: uncbob
Damn Nixon and Kissinger for opening up China to the USA

: There is an old Vulcan proverb: only Nixon could go to China.

17 posted on 06/02/2012 4:56:03 AM PDT by Vaquero (Don't pick a fight with an old guy. If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you.)
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get rid of this bunch people.....get rid of bamey and holder and panneta too....

is this a signal that we're going to abandon Israel and Europe...allow Iran to take over?....

18 posted on 06/02/2012 4:56:39 AM PDT by cherry
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Greatest threat to US/Western civilization is in Middle East.

So the marxist-mooslum orders majority of fleet to Pacific.

Comrade obozo is the most dangerous, anti-American person to occupy OUR house!


19 posted on 06/02/2012 4:59:19 AM PDT by newfreep (Breitbart sent me...)
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Leon Panetta: US to deploy 60% of navy fleet to Pacific

Now that the Muslim-Sympatizer-In-The-White-House has decided to let the
radical Islamists roll over Aghanistan, the entire mid-east, Africa and Europe.
No reason to let our military get in the way of the new caliphate.

Barack Obama: The Muslim call to prayer (that says allah is supreme,
there is no god but allah) was "one of the sweetest sounds on Earth"

(Barack Obama dressed as a Somali elder during his 2006 visit to Kenya)


20 posted on 06/02/2012 5:33:24 AM PDT by Iron Munro (If you want total security go to prison. The only thing lacking is freedom. D. D. Eisenhower)
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