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To: Longinus
Embargoes are also acts of war.

We have been fighting a war for a long time with Iran.

Hey! Let's send the Ticonderoga-class cruiser U.S.S. Vincennes back to the area!

Though there are more modern cruisers with better vertical-launch missile systems, a return of the ol' RoboCruiser would indeed send the Iranians a message.


174 posted on 03/23/2007 9:22:07 AM PDT by archy (Et Thybrim multo spumantem sanguine cerno. [from Virgil's *Aeneid*.])
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To: archy
Naval vessels are obsolete - or so champions of cruise missiles would have us think.

Time to find out if our Navy can survive an onslaught of sunburns and silkworms fired at a short distance in narrow straights or if the Iranians can survive a stealth fighter attack along their batteries on the shore.

178 posted on 03/23/2007 9:26:09 AM PDT by Longinus ("Whom did it benefit". (Cui Bono Fuerit) Longinus Cassius Roman conspirator & general (? - 42 BC))
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To: archy

Sadly the Vincennes was decommissioned AFIK.

Definitely would cause some chaos around here though. Apparently when they shot down that air-liner there was a thought that Iranian-linked terrorists would attack Vincennes Indiana in an act of retribution. Why they would attack this place boggles the mind though....


200 posted on 03/23/2007 10:43:30 AM PDT by RoadDogg (If our troops are dumb, then consider this college student an ABSOLUTE IDIOT.)
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