To: Aussie Dasher
Was the ship no longer usable? Could they not have benefited more by reflagging it, auctioning it off, or atleast using it for scrap steel? Anyone know the rest of the story?
13 posted on
03/23/2006 3:33:37 AM PST by
posterchild
(Living a capitalist dream in a socialist 'paradise.')
To: posterchild
Was the ship no longer usable? Could they not have benefited more by reflagging it, auctioning it off, or atleast using it for scrap steel? Anyone know the rest of the story? The material condition of the ship was probably so bad that the cost of rehabilitating it was prohibitive. Plus, a SINKEX provides valuable training for Airforce and Navy pilots and gunners(and they're really cool!)
15 posted on
03/23/2006 3:41:20 AM PST by
Drew68
To: posterchild
Could they not have benefited more by reflagging it, auctioning it off, or atleast using it for scrap steel? Anyone know the rest of the story? Perhaps they were concerned that, given the Dear Leader's propensity for irrational and violent scheming and outbursts, this ship would have been an ongoing provocation and a magnet for mischief in the future.
16 posted on
03/23/2006 3:42:11 AM PST by
Steely Tom
(Your taboos are not my taboos.)
To: posterchild
There is no cheap appeal of a sinking.
19 posted on
03/23/2006 4:59:20 AM PST by
dhuffman@awod.com
(The conspiracy of ignorance masquerades as common sense.)
To: posterchild
It's the thought that counts the most.
24 posted on
03/23/2006 5:51:49 AM PST by
1rudeboy
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