[rickmichaels]

Okinawa??? WTF???

[Bob]

Okinawa??? WTF???

That was one of the locations that murtha wanted to "redeploy" our troops to. From there, they could "quickly" go back in if it were necessary.

[USNBandit]

That would require at least 12 days of hard steaming by boat or a bunch of aircraft to move from Okinawa to the Gulf, plus days to unload prepositioning ships.

I have no idea what he think being in Okinawa can do for us.

[operation clinton cleanup]

Okinawa??? WTF???

I think he meant Guam, but he failed to correct himself (even though Tim gave him a chance). I don't think Okinawa wants 100,000 more troops hanging out there anyway.

[lt.america]

I am not even going into how crazy and completely nonsencical this. But bottom line, how can you effect change in the ME deployed in Okinawa.

[SE Mom]

Simple explanation. Murtha heard about the North Korea missle and decided to deploy, errr...re-deploy...uhmm..send troops to be on stand-by for that..

See? An easy mistake that anyone could make- getting Iraq confused with southeast Asia.

pppfffttt...