Posted on 10/24/2019 2:00:18 PM PDT by ransomnote
https://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3789634/posts?page=1
Maltese professor a missing link in FBI’s ‘Russia-gate’
amp.washingtontimes.com ^ | 10/27/2019 | rowan scarborough
Here’s the run down on battleships by size, etc
Yamato maxed weapon size at 18.1” and displacement. Only the 14”s seemed to have more guns/batteries (10 on the King George class) - and that was likely due to their smaller size. Almost all the rest had 9 main guns and some had 8.
https://www.navygeneralboard.com/top-10-biggest-battleships-of-all-time/
Per this article:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iowa-class_battleship
Iowa class had 20 5” guns, or 10 batteries of 2 guns each, In addition to the main batteries. When the ships were modernized in the 80s 1/2 of the 5” batteries were removed to make room for the Tomahawk and Harpoon launchers.
Beautiful ships all around.
He was made into a corpse and carried away, and then we used a MOAB on the Turkish MIT agents meeting with him.
And tonight, Erdogan realizes that Trump effortlessly outsmarted him.
......PRICELESS!!! Yuuuuge amounts of winning. Oh, I'm sooo not tired if winning!
I’m surprised Wapoo didn’t notice the pillows next to him and say something about him being an interior decorator as well :)
Petey
Comey moving to NZ if Trump is reelected?
My response was:
mark
Comey moving to NZ if Trump is reelected?
Comey can’t go anywhere, he is still under investigation and he won’t be going anywhere but Gitmo anyway...
Just checked and NZ does have an extradition treaty with the US.
http://www.expatintelligence.com/extradition-treaty-with-new-zealand.shtml
Q
All countries reserve the right to refuse extradition if they believe the charges are political or otherwise unfair - or embarrassing to them. Theyre all Deep Staters.
President Trump looks very happy to be at the conference and talking with some of the officers.
I'm quoting your whole post for posterity's sake...the group will enjoy having your posts to look back on after I ZOT YOU TO THE BOWELS OF HELL for teasing me!!!! (thanks, and I just know I could beat you in a race to the mailbox!!)
Bring it, don't sing it, my little chickadee.
He had another stem-winder...
Yeah he tore into the Chicago Chief of Police Eddie Johnson who didn’t show up even though it was in Chicago “his city is more dangerous than Afghanistan” and Jussie Smollett “he beat himself up and blamed Maga country”
https://www.coreysdigs.com/u-s/turn-the-page-or-lose-your-children-to-indoctrination/
If you have kids in your life, check this out and pass it on.
How about it...I’m watching the replay...
Great read—thanks for sharing!
Well, not copies of letters, but I did uncover This story, a reprint of an AP story by Christine Simmons {July 24, 2008}:
The State Department's inspector general is investigating Iraqi oil contracts after four Democratic senators complained that department employees may have encouraged lucrative oil deals between Iraq and several Western companies.The story is filled out by this story taken from the Weekly Standard of September 16, 2008 by Frederick W. Kagan:
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"We are concerned that U.S. policy regarding these oil contracts has not been clearly defined, communicated or consistently implemented by the Iraqi government, the Kurdistan Regional Government and international oil companies seeking to do business in Iraq," Sens. Carl Levin of Michigan, Chuck Schumer of New York, John Kerry of Massachusetts and Claire McCaskill of Missouri said in their July 16 letter.
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In early July, Levin asked Stephen Hadley, the president's national security adviser, to respond to news reports that State Department employees had advised Iraq on no-bid technical contracts.His request followed one by Schumer, Kerry and McCaskill that Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice try to block any deals between Iraq and the oil companies, including U.S-based Exxon Mobil.
... One question came up repeatedly in the hearing that deserves more of an answer than it got, however: Why, after all the assistance we've given to Iraq over the past five years, was the first major Iraqi oil deal signed with China and not with an American or even a western company? The answer is, in part, because three Democratic senators intervened in Iraqi domestic politics earlier this year to prevent Iraq from signing short-term agreements with Exxon Mobil, Shell, Total, Chevron, and BP.
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... One would have thought that leading Democratic senators who claim to be interested in finding other sources of funding to replace American dollars in Iraq, in helping Iraq spend its own money on its own people, and in lowering the price of gasoline for American citizens, would have been all for it. Instead, Senators Chuck Schumer, John Kerry, and Claire McCaskill wrote a letter to Secretary of State Rice asking her "to persuade the GOI [Government of Iraq] to refrain from signing contracts with multinational oil companies until a hydrocarbon law is in effect in Iraq." The Bush administration wisely refused to do so, but the resulting media hooraw in Iraq led to the cancellation of the contracts, and helps to explain why Iraq is doing oil deals instead with China.
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