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1 posted on 04/06/2007 5:50:33 PM PDT by racing fan
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The wrong message to send the thugs.


2 posted on 04/06/2007 5:53:17 PM PDT by Dog (I hate holidays...)
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Sounds like they are getting ready to buy those French built carriers after all.


3 posted on 04/06/2007 5:53:17 PM PDT by PAR35
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The British are officially French now. A white feather needs to be given to every British citizen.


4 posted on 04/06/2007 5:53:48 PM PDT by racing fan (Go Team Israel!)
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Geesh, morons! Why don’t they just fly a white flag?


5 posted on 04/06/2007 5:53:53 PM PDT by greccogirl
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That’s what Lord Nelson would have done....NOT!


7 posted on 04/06/2007 5:57:47 PM PDT by USNBandit (sarcasm engaged at all times)
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I know I have become cynical in recent years, but this has all the earmarks of a “deal”. As such it stinks to high heaven. Aw well, under the Peolsi/Lantos Democratic foreign policy, we would withdraw as well.
8 posted on 04/06/2007 5:58:09 PM PDT by JimSEA
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Now that the Iranian Hitler has redeemed himself, we can rest easy. /sarc


9 posted on 04/06/2007 5:59:13 PM PDT by Fitzcarraldo (If the Moon didn't exist, people would have traveled to Mars by now.)
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I searched for Admiral Band and found this article, from Jane’s Navy International, dated November 28, 2006:


UK navy chief fuels ‘quality versus quantity’ debate

By Richard Scott

The UK Royal Navy’s (RN’s) most senior officer has argued that the service should accept sacrificing quality for quantity if it is to maintain a surface fleet of sufficient size to contribute to maritime security operations on a global scale.

Speaking at the Royal United Services Institute (RUSI) ‘Future Maritime Operations’ conference in London on 22 November, Chief of Naval Staff and First Sea Lord Admiral Sir Jonathon Band said that while the RN had previously insisted on configuring its forces for high-intensity warfighting, the “financial and security” realities had persuaded him that there was a case for a larger number of less capable units for tasking in support of maritime interdiction and constabulary operations.

Adm Band’s comments come as staff in the Ministry of Defence and the RN assess capability and force-mix options for a projected Future Surface Combatant (FSC) to enter service in the 2017-20 timeframe.

The size of the RN’s frigate/destroyer force has seen a significant decline over the past decade, falling from 35 ships in 1996 to 25 today. Admiral Sir Alan West, Adm Band’s predecessor as Chief of Naval Staff and First Sea Lord, was public in his opinion that this level is too small to meet the full spectrum of taskings, noting that the figure of 25 was based on analysis of high-intensity warfighting tasks alone and did not address wider maritime security needs, or make any allowance for attrition.

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10 posted on 04/06/2007 5:59:28 PM PDT by Cicero (Marcus Tullius)
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The chief of the Royal Navy, Adm. Jonathon Band, considered it necessary to suspend the drills for the moment, and called for reviewing British patrol regulations.

Who knows, we might be surprised, I doubt they would be
making them more lax eh.

Iranians could be getting unintended consequences...


11 posted on 04/06/2007 6:02:33 PM PDT by tet68 ( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
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The Muslims must have the UK by the short hairs, or else UK promised to evacuate the gulf in order to get the hostages back. I don’t understand why or how they were captured to begin with. Just watch for ballooning Muslim takeover in UK. I wonder how the Queen is taking all this.


12 posted on 04/06/2007 6:04:40 PM PDT by Paperdoll
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“The chief of the Royal Navy, Adm. Jonathon Band, considered it necessary to suspend the drills for the moment, and called for reviewing British patrol regulations.”

Need new regs????

NEXT TIME SHOOT THE BA$T^%&$ before they can steal hostages!!!!!!


17 posted on 04/06/2007 6:20:54 PM PDT by ZULU (Non nobis, non nobis Domine, sed nomini tuo da gloriam. God, guts and guns made America great.)
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Bad move.


19 posted on 04/06/2007 6:30:42 PM PDT by yldstrk (My heros have always been cowboys--Reagan and Bush)
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Pathetic! This incident just keeps looking weaker and weaker for England. “When challenged, give up” is the MO being displayed here. Watching their “officers” explain why they didn’t even try to fight in the press conference was disgusting.

What happened to our once brave allies? Is this the same nation that survived the Battle of Britain?

England had better re-grow a spine before they are under Sharia Law.


20 posted on 04/06/2007 6:36:48 PM PDT by CCGuy (USAF (Ret.))
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Run Away!


21 posted on 04/06/2007 6:37:40 PM PDT by Jagman (I drank Frank Rabelais under the table!)
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the british empire is no more.


28 posted on 04/06/2007 6:51:52 PM PDT by ken21 (it takes a village to brainwash your child + to steal your property! /s)
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Neville Blair.!


29 posted on 04/06/2007 6:52:28 PM PDT by bluebeak
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I think they are finally going to hand out live ammunition. Takes time to get it distributed.


31 posted on 04/06/2007 6:59:57 PM PDT by Parley Baer
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Just remember. EU is the first two letters of EUnuch.


32 posted on 04/06/2007 7:01:48 PM PDT by armymarinemom (My sons freed Iraqi and Afghan Honor Roll students.)
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The spirit of Chamberlain, at its worst ....


34 posted on 04/06/2007 7:55:16 PM PDT by GOP_1900AD (Stomping on "PC," destroying the Left, and smoking out faux "conservatives" - Take Back The GOP!)
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I say hand over the Royal Navy (whats remaining) to the Iranian mullahs. They want it more than the Brits.


37 posted on 04/06/2007 8:19:43 PM PDT by petertare (--)
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