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SAN FRANCISCO: Navy scuttles plan to commission warship here, citing local politics
San Francisco Chronicle ^ | 12-02-06 | Carl Nolte

Posted on 12/02/2006 10:17:05 AM PST by jazusamo

Secretary of the Navy Donald C. Winter vetoed plans to commission the Makin Island, the Navy's newest and most powerful warship, in San Francisco in 2008 because of a perception that the city is anti-military.

Retired Marine Corps Maj. Gen. J. Michael Myatt, chairman of a high-powered committee that was to support a commissioning ceremony for the Makin Island, said he has been informed that the ship would not be commissioned in San Francisco, as scheduled, but in San Diego.

Myatt said he had been told that the Navy was concerned about San Francisco's refusal to provide a homeport for the retired battleship Iowa, which would be turned into a museum, and for the city school board's decision to abolish junior ROTC training in San Francisco high schools.

One of the factors that turned the Pentagon against San Francisco, he said, was widely quoted anti-military remarks made by various city politicians. Some of the remarks got considerable attention, especially ones made by Gerardo Sandoval, a member of the Board of Supervisors, who was quoted on national television as saying national defense should be left to "the cops and the Coast Guard.''

(Excerpt) Read more at sfgate.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: antimilitary; california; gerardosandoval; gonavy; homosexualagenda; militarysupport; sanfrancisco; sanfranciscovalues; sanfransicko
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To: jazusamo

U.S. military out of San Francisco now!


21 posted on 12/02/2006 10:53:02 AM PST by RedRover (They are not killers. Defend our Marines.)
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To: freeangel
Liberals are very happy to place troops upon a shelf and only take them down when it suits their needs. Very selfish, narrowminded, egotistical, selfrighteous, grasping, greedy and selfcentered. Incapable of understanding it is those willing to take up arms who guarantee the Constitution survives to enable American rights to survive.

Next earthquake, let SF burn and SF'ers perish.

IOW, let them rot in Hell.

22 posted on 12/02/2006 10:53:38 AM PST by Thumper1960 (Unleash the Dogs of War as a Minority, or perish as a party.)
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To: jazusamo

Good. What goes around comes around.







Sometimes.


23 posted on 12/02/2006 10:54:08 AM PST by aculeus
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To: Nomorjer Kinov

You're correct on all counts but I'll bet all three will have plenty to say about it.


24 posted on 12/02/2006 10:54:14 AM PST by jazusamo (Murtha still owes the Haditha Marines an apology-See DogMurtha.com.)
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To: jazusamo

Why would the Navy want to hold a commissioning ceremony while just outside the gates Marxist *ssholes would be protesting and throwing fake blood at sailors?


25 posted on 12/02/2006 10:56:27 AM PST by pabianice
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To: jazusamo
Myatt said the Navy had mistaken the views of some political leaders for the views of the majority of citizens in the Bay Area."

I don't think so, General. The "citizens in the Bay Area" elect the scum that sit in office in San Fransicko. Screw 'em all.
This is a very encouraging move by the Navy.

26 posted on 12/02/2006 10:59:56 AM PST by Lancey Howard
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To: jazusamo

wonder what the cops are going to use when china invades?


27 posted on 12/02/2006 11:03:07 AM PST by IllumiNaughtyByNature (If a pug barks and no one is around to hear it... they hold a grudge for a long time!)
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To: jazusamo
Re: It'll be interesting to see what Pelosi, Feinstein and Boxer have to say about this.

I'd rather wait until North Korea or Osama bin Laden's boys nuke San Fran...

Then, I'd like to hear their story!

Whom am I kidding... Then they and the MSM will still say "It is W's fault!"
28 posted on 12/02/2006 11:03:36 AM PST by Bender2 (I am off politics until Nancy moves to Tehran... There to be taken straight to the ever after!)
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To: Lancey Howard

You're right, I believe the good General was trying to play a little politics with his statement.


29 posted on 12/02/2006 11:06:06 AM PST by jazusamo (Murtha still owes the Haditha Marines an apology-See DogMurtha.com.)
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To: bybybill

"...a multi-purpose amphibious assault ship designed to transport and land a Marine Expeditionary Unit (MEU), a force of almost 2,000 Marines, ashore by helicopter, landing craft and amphibious assault vehicle. LHD 8 will also have secondary missions of sea control and power projection by helicopter and fixed-wing vertical short take-off and landing (VSTOL) aircraft; command and control, and mission support, including a hospital with six operating rooms..."


30 posted on 12/02/2006 11:09:19 AM PST by Repeal The 17th
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To: jazusamo
For it's Tommy this, an' Tommy that, an' "Chuck him out, the brute!"
But it's "Saviour of 'is country" when the guns begin to shoot;
An' it's Tommy this, an' Tommy that, an' anything you please;
An' Tommy ain't a bloomin' fool -- you bet that Tommy sees!
31 posted on 12/02/2006 11:13:06 AM PST by JoeGar
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To: jazusamo

Why not take the Iowa to a city where residents will appreciate it?


32 posted on 12/02/2006 11:17:54 AM PST by BW2221
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To: BW2221

I believe there was talk of taking it to Stockton, CA but don't know if anythings been decided.


33 posted on 12/02/2006 11:22:58 AM PST by jazusamo (Murtha still owes the Haditha Marines an apology-See DogMurtha.com.)
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To: Dahoser
That's really sad. This attitude only developed in the last 20-30 years or so (dang carpetbaggers!). San Francisco and the whole Bay Area used to have an enormous military presence (especially Navy):

--NAS Moffett Field
--Hunters Point Naval Shipyard
--Mare Island
--Treasure Island
--NAS Alameda
--NAS Oakland
--Port Chicago Naval Magazine
--Oakland Naval Hospital
--Oakland Naval Supply Center
--Marine Corps Pacific Headquarters

All are gone now...

34 posted on 12/02/2006 11:29:56 AM PST by shorty_harris
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To: jazusamo
Bring back a Battleship to sail with her plus a carrier battle group and you`d have what they used to call "a presence" and a hell`va lot of hurt for the bad guys.
35 posted on 12/02/2006 11:38:32 AM PST by bybybill (`IF TH E RATS WIN, WE LOSE)
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To: shorty_harris

I was on a DDG when she was commissioned at Hunter's Point in 68. Now Hunter's Point is only a good place for a sailor guy to get mugged and killed.


36 posted on 12/02/2006 11:53:27 AM PST by em2vn
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To: jazusamo

The effort now is to move the USS Iowa to Mare Island, near Vallejo.


37 posted on 12/02/2006 11:57:30 AM PST by gaijin
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To: jazusamo
There's a funny story about the Iowa; they wanted to dock it just off of Fisherman's Warf, OK? And the homos wouldn't have it. So the USN cooked up all this homoerotic stuff they'd throw into the mix to get the butt-pirates to shut up:

All kinds of on-board exhibits about "Don't ask, don't tell" and how those dudes got homo-smeared when that turret on the USS New Jersey suddenly blew up.

Good enough, you think? Did they homo's shut up and play nice?

OF COURSE NOT...!

I guess that's tolerance...!

38 posted on 12/02/2006 11:59:53 AM PST by gaijin
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To: jazusamo

39 posted on 12/02/2006 12:04:11 PM PST by traditional1
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To: JoeGar

(Rudyard Kipling)


40 posted on 12/02/2006 12:11:41 PM PST by baa39
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