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Tehran Fears U.S. Attack [USS Eisenhower, Enterprise]
ADKNI ^ | 10/11/06 | freedom44

Posted on 10/11/2006 2:35:42 PM PDT by freedom44

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To: defenderSD

You know how when you take a test in school they say never pick answers that involve "Always" and "Never"? It's true with most things, including stmts against races, religions, etc. I do't doubt there are many good Muslims in the world and here in America. It just takes a handful of people to mess things up.


121 posted on 10/11/2006 4:50:41 PM PDT by ItisaReligionofPeace
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To: BeHoldAPaleHorse
Oil.

Oil is the reason we haven't just blown the place all to hell and gone.

There other reasons to be concerned with the region. For one, it's the birthplace of our two major religions (in terms of numbers of adherents).

It's also the hatching place of a third religion, may of whose adherents seem to want to dominate the world. Oil is their lever to do that. Without the oil, they'd just be a bunch of goat herders following the rantings of a pedophilic warlord.

122 posted on 10/11/2006 4:51:10 PM PDT by El Gato
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To: freedom44

Worried about a couple of boats. What a wuss.


123 posted on 10/11/2006 4:54:15 PM PDT by chesty_puller (USMC 70-73 3MAF VN 70-71)
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To: Drew68
Well Drew, thanks for your service and that of your shipmates.

From your homepage... Oh yeah, I also dig Ukrainian chicks named "Tatyana"!.

Good taste! My brother in law is married to a gal from Kirgistan, whose parents were from the Ukraine. Her daughter from preivous marriage is Tatyana, although she's most often Tanya, or Tanish. Her mother is a good looking gal, who makes a mean birthday cake (well sort of a cake, but good), gives a good haircut, can dissassemble and reassemble an AK, blindfolded, and who's now a pretty darn good shot with a "cowboy" type pistol and more so with her very own .243 bolt action. :)

125 posted on 10/11/2006 4:59:48 PM PDT by El Gato
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To: Drew68

I have a few friends out escorting you guys, it's good to know you all are cocked, locked and ready to rock if need be


126 posted on 10/11/2006 4:59:58 PM PDT by Bottom_Gun (Crush depth dummy - proud NRA member & Certified Instructor)
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To: Drew68

Greetings from Texas! God bless you guys! Give 'em hell if you have to!


127 posted on 10/11/2006 5:00:11 PM PDT by Sen Jack S. Fogbound
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To: Psychotronic Weapon
Sure, supply Israel with tech, aid, and weapons when appropriate but otherwise, leave it at that.

That alone would ensure that they would continue to consider us the Great Satan, and continue coming after us.

128 posted on 10/11/2006 5:01:09 PM PDT by El Gato
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To: freedom44
"if the presence of US navy ships in the Persian Gulf turned into a real threat for the Islamic Republic then the region's oil pipeline would explode. . ."

As crazy as these people pretend to be they are not going to destroy their main source of income--oil. To do so would end the regime and power of these flea-bitten pig-f*ckers.
130 posted on 10/11/2006 5:08:21 PM PDT by Brad from Tennessee (Anything a politician gives you he has first stolen from you)
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To: Psychotronic Weapon

How many times can you say "not a cakewalk", actually, I think we understand your position.

The problem is that with silly rules of engagement, PC and weak leftist cowards with no stomach for anything except "Kumbaya", we cannot do what should be done.

If the time comes when we are suffering attacks, then all rules are nil, all leaves are cancelled and the doo-doo will hit the fan big time.

What you do not seem to get is that war is a nasty business, always has been and always will be- it gets nastier when your back is up against the wall because you did not do what sheould have been done when you had the chance-see; Europe, 1934-39.

If you want to argue that every tin-pot twit who faces East five times a day can have a nuke because we do, then you need to reconsider your position, get a clue and do a reality check on your opinion of being an American. Cakewalk that.


131 posted on 10/11/2006 5:12:48 PM PDT by alarm rider (Casting a large net for new, shiny tag lines...)
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To: Psychotronic Weapon
Then either don't do it, or keep it in the dark, or on a very limited basis.

Hmpf. You would abandon those you'd at first said you would support, as soon as you thought it might cost you something? I'm reminded of this statement by Samuel Adams:

If ye love wealth greater than liberty, the tranquility of servitude greater than the animating contest for freedom, go home from us in peace. We seek not your counsel, nor your arms. Crouch down and lick the hand that feeds you; May your chains set lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that ye were our countrymen.

132 posted on 10/11/2006 5:15:34 PM PDT by El Gato
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To: freedom44

Is kinda wrong thinking to send Red shirts on Enteprise to Iran


134 posted on 10/11/2006 5:22:25 PM PDT by SevenofNine ("Step aside Jefe"=Det Lennie Briscoe)
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To: OPS4

I would bet they are already laying off the coast of N.K. right now.


135 posted on 10/11/2006 5:27:40 PM PDT by HANG THE EXPENSE (Defeat liberalism, its the right thing to do for America.)
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To: Pukin Dog; thinkthenpost
During WWII, thousands of bombs might be dropped on a target before it could be considered damaged or destroyed

Again, I couldn't agree more.

Nor could dad. - On the mission where he was forced to crash land behind enemy territory, he and 20 other B17 heavy bombers hit a single target, the coke plant at Nuenkirken on November 04, 1944.

As per later analysis, that plant was not put out of action.

Actually, the mission is still somewhat of a mystery, as the official records do not jive, or are destroyed. - I have been to Ghent, Belgium, and also to England to gather such evidence as I could.

Part of the saga is told by me here - and this is a site well worth visiting for those inclined to study the history of U.S. air power in WWII.

He survived, and he was a pretty well decorated airman;

Distinguished Unit Citation w/1 Oak Leaf Cluster
Distinguished Flying Cross and Air Medal w/4 OLC
American Defense Medal and a Europe/Africa/Middle East Campaign Medal w/ 4 Campaign stars and a WWII Victory Medal.

Not too bad for a young kid from Pa.


136 posted on 10/11/2006 5:28:06 PM PDT by bill1952 ("All that we do is done with an eye towards something else.")
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To: Psychotronic Weapon
We can drill for oil here in the US!

At a significantly higher cost per barrel. How much of your standard of living are you willing to forfeit to achieve that goal?

137 posted on 10/11/2006 5:40:04 PM PDT by BeHoldAPaleHorse ( ~()):~)>)
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To: defenderSD
If we let Iran build a couple of nuclear weapons, some crazed ayatollah might decide to sneak one into Washington and destroy most of our federal government

Nah, not these guys. - In The Holy City of Qom.

Hell, let them have nukes...

139 posted on 10/11/2006 5:44:43 PM PDT by bill1952 ("All that we do is done with an eye towards something else.")
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