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Leon Panetta: US to deploy 60% of navy fleet to Pacific
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| 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
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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Front Page News; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: china; usnavy
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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)
To: TigerLikesRooster
Bad news for East Coast shipyards and naval air stations.
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posted on
06/02/2012 3:44:41 AM PDT
by
Timber Rattler
(Just say NO! to RINOS and the GOP-E)
To: TigerLikesRooster
Time to deploy Peon Lanetta to Pluto.
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posted on
06/02/2012 3:45:37 AM PDT
by
fieldmarshaldj
(If you like lying Socialist dirtbags, you'll love Slick Willard)
To: TigerLikesRooster
Thw way things are going that will be 6 ships to the Pacific, leaving the remaining 4 in the Atlantic ...
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posted on
06/02/2012 4:03:33 AM PDT
by
PIF
(They came for me and mine ... now it is your turn ...)
To: PIF
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.
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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.)
To: TigerLikesRooster
Damn Nixon and Kissinger for opening up China to the USA
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posted on
06/02/2012 4:22:20 AM PDT
by
uncbob
To: TigerLikesRooster
Something must be in the works for the atlantic so we are unprepared
To: TigerLikesRooster
Something must be in the works for the atlantic so we are deliberatley unprepared
To: TigerLikesRooster
WTF
Peternose what are you and the idiot doing?
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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.)
To: ronnie raygun
This is a good thing. China wants blue-water capability but is still far from getting it. We must keep them in check.
To: TigerLikesRooster
Great !
Base some of them in Kaoshiung Taiwan. I can have a USA Sailors bar opened there in 3 months!
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posted on
06/02/2012 4:35:27 AM PDT
by
Tainan
(Cogito, ergo conservatus sum)
To: TigerLikesRooster
like LBJ...this doooooosh will tell our enemies our plans.
what a maroon.
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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.)
To: Tainan
“Bar”? Surely, you don’t mean a drinking bar, since drinking is heavily, heavily frowned upon in this Navy.
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posted on
06/02/2012 4:46:46 AM PDT
by
ryan71
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$$.
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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.)
To: Timber Rattler
Good news for naval shipyards and air stations in the reliably liberal states of California, Oregon, Washington, and Hawaii. Coincidence?
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posted on
06/02/2012 4:53:48 AM PDT
by
Pollster1
(A boy becomes a man when a man is needed - John Steinbeck)
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.
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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.)
To: fieldmarshaldj
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?....
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posted on
06/02/2012 4:56:39 AM PDT
by
cherry
To: TigerLikesRooster
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!
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posted on
06/02/2012 4:59:19 AM PDT
by
newfreep
(Breitbart sent me...)
To: TigerLikesRooster
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)
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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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