Posted on 10/11/2006 5:57:03 PM PDT by elhombrelibre
But that can't be!
Bush took his eye off the ... was distracted by ... quagmire!!
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!
He's sneaky.
Hasn’t North Korea done that sufficiently well for us this past year?
What is it they don’t get anyway this is a purely defensive weapon.
I guess it’s the US Army they don’t like.
They'd change their attitude if the nukes were flying out of North Korea. That's the problem with parlor socialism and its sissy sister pacifism. Some folks actually start to believe their delusional rhetoric.
They probably don't even realize that the PAC-3s will be protecting their protesting backsides too. That if there's an inbound, they will probably make the shoot / don't-shoot decision early on in the engagement. (to give maximum time to the end battery for a best possible engagement) This will be while the impact footprint is still a fairly large oval. So even if the missile is targeted at say a civilian population center, the PAC-3s will be fired...
Do Okinawa’s inhabitants still want us off their island? If so, we can always put our Patriot systems back on the freighter and send them to Israel, they will be appreciated there.
Ungrateful ingrates.
As a generality, Okinawa usually functions in leftist opposition to the Japanese mainland majority and uses protest to just about anything the Japanese government does in the national defense sphere as a reason to organize demonstrations and protests. This behavior generally leads to some concession from the central government to pacify the Okinawans, which, in turn enriches at least some Okinawans; this enrichment, in turn, keeps the opposition in political power in Okinawa while, paradoxically, an extraordinary concentration of U.S. military enjoys an excellent strategic position on the good old USS Okinawa. Contingency plans to abandon Okinawa are know to exist, and the Okinawans would not go so far in upsetting the status quo as to trigger large scale American departure, for should that occur, Okinawa would be impoverished and irrelevant.
Far too many people, including some on FR, seriously underestimate our President.
Gee Dub 'da man!
New tagline!!
I didn't mean you, airborne! I'm sure we both know a few FRiends who fit the bill though. ;)
I do know a few.
BTW, I'm not a BushBot.
But I know an honest man when I see one.
I spent some considerable time on Oki as a Marine officer. As to Murtha, he's an idiot who reminds me of the scatological rhyme: "under the spreading chestnut tree the village idiot sat, amusing himself by abusing himself and catching the stuff in his hat". IMHO, before election time some information that Murtha's career in the Marines was not quite as gallant as advertised will emerge. But in any case, the absurdity of Murtha's proposing to deploy reaction forces for Iraq on Okinawa makes me wonder if Congressman Murtha might be a bit demented for one or more of the many reasons a fellow could "lose it" beyond the level where his loyal staff, wanting continued employment, could any longer cover it up.
ping
On Wednesday morning, U.S. service members and other workers unloaded the cargo, which arrived Monday, after police cleared the route of civic groups that had blocked the road in protest of the deployment of the Patriot Advanced Capability-3 interceptor system.
The United States plans to begin partial operation of the PAC-3 system at the U.S. Kadena Air Base and the Kadena Ammunition Storage Area by the end of December, deploying all 24 missiles in the system, according to the U.S. military.
FYI
Japan ping.
We're of like minds, airborne. I'm not a BushBot either, but I believe with all of my heart, that George W. Bush is a good, honest man who sees clearly what is right and what is wrong in this world.
This is good news.
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