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Richardson tours captured U.S. warship
The Boston Globe ^ | April 9, 2007 | Foster Klug

Posted on 04/09/2007 5:17:49 PM PDT by amchugh

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21 posted on 04/09/2007 5:52:21 PM PDT by tflabo (Take authority that's ours)
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To: CedarDave

Yeah, I saw that. Richardson has been trying to build a foreign diplomacy portfolio for a while now. We’ll see if he comes up with more condemning language after he leaves N. Korea.


22 posted on 04/09/2007 5:52:24 PM PDT by amchugh (large and largely disgruntled)
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To: reagan_fanatic

I thought he was there at the request of the President. Per your post I guess I was mistaken.


23 posted on 04/09/2007 5:52:59 PM PDT by nomorelurker (wetraginhell)
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To: clintonh8r
Richardson and a host of others on BOTH sides of the isle need to be sat down in a classroom and have explained to them how Communists and Islamists use these kinds of trips by American “leaders” and public personalities to breed more contempt for us among the slaves populations in their own countries. These little tours to places like their USS Pueblo political shrine are also used in attempts to mislead the remainder of the world as to their motives and about the attitudes of the American people.

I read where President Bush endorsed this trip. Bush needs to be in the same class room, sitting as a student. The teachers should be former Chinese, Russian, Vietnamese, Cambodian, Burmese and Islamist (and other) system slaves.

24 posted on 04/09/2007 5:53:10 PM PDT by John Leland 1789
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It’s frustraing for the average American to have to have wussies for leaders. It should be settled before leaving that a US leader will not tour the Pueblo. As a matter of fact we should have bombed it along time ago after our prisoners were returned.


25 posted on 04/09/2007 5:55:01 PM PDT by rbmillerjr ("Message to radical jihadis...come to my hood, it's understood ------ it's open season" Stuck Mojo)
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To: clintonh8r

What on earth is Richardson thinking of? I thought he was a decent guy compared to the rest of the Democratic candidates. They are all turncoats.


26 posted on 04/09/2007 5:56:44 PM PDT by Uncle Hal
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To: amchugh

WHAT IS THIS????????

I cannot BELIEVE this guy would let himself be paraded around on the USS Pueblo. I just cannot believe it.

I have always said that if the KorComs would not repatriate the vessel, we should obliterate that poor ship with 5 or 6 laser guided Mk84’s.

Now I am thinking we should have done it while that traitorous SOB Richardson was parading around on it.

This is shameful and disgusting. I am appalled by this.


27 posted on 04/09/2007 5:59:48 PM PDT by rlmorel (Liberals: If the Truth would help them, they would use it.)
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To: CedarDave

Dave, I watched a short clip of him in NK, and he looked pretty unkempt...his hair was sticking out, and he looked more “jowly” than ever. I think this trip will turn out to be a loser for him, poor thing ;0


28 posted on 04/09/2007 6:00:26 PM PDT by greyfoxx39 (Waiting impatiently for a conservative party to rise from the ashes of the wimpy republican party.)
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To: nomorelurker
Gee - where in the article did it state that a visit to the Pueblo was part of the official itinerary? I must have missed that.
29 posted on 04/09/2007 6:02:48 PM PDT by reagan_fanatic (I have a big carbon footprint and I'm not afraid to use it.)
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To: amchugh
What’s the big deal.

Richardson is just spending time with people who share his political philosophy.

Happens all the time.

Pelosi embraces the mohammedans, Richardson embraces north korean communists. Hillary, well hell Hillary embraces any political philosophy that places power exclusively in the hands of the elites.

I would be terribly surprised and not a little bit frightened if they weren’t openly showing their admiration and respect for these murderers and thugs.

It would mean they were acting out of character and that is never a good sign.

30 posted on 04/09/2007 6:03:48 PM PDT by Dr.Zoidberg (Mohammedanism - Bringing you only the best of the 6th century for fourteen hundred years.)
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To: amchugh
"...Richardson's four-day trip, which has been endorsed by the Bush administration..."

I do not give a flying crap whether it was endorsed or not. That dumb SOB should never have gone on the vessel. He should have refused, damn him.

31 posted on 04/09/2007 6:03:52 PM PDT by rlmorel (Liberals: If the Truth would help them, they would use it.)
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To: pointsal

Richardson has one eye open for Bubba,the mexican pimp knows talant.


32 posted on 04/09/2007 6:04:19 PM PDT by Unicorn (Too many wimps around.)
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To: amchugh

The Pueblo was hardly a warship.


33 posted on 04/09/2007 6:04:33 PM PDT by Nuc1 (NUC1 Sub pusher SSN 668 (Liberals Aren't Patriots))
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To: rlmorel
That dumb SOB should never have gone on the vessel. He should have refused, damn him.

Agreed 100%
34 posted on 04/09/2007 6:06:32 PM PDT by reagan_fanatic (I have a big carbon footprint and I'm not afraid to use it.)
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To: Uncle Hal
What ever gave you that opinion he;s a full blown liberal bozo.
35 posted on 04/09/2007 6:06:47 PM PDT by Unicorn (Too many wimps around.)
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I AM angry about this. Could this stupid clod, who apparently has enough brain cells to get elected governor of a state, not understand the significance of the vessel.

My dad was a friend of CDR Bucher...and he was also the Communications and Security Officer at Yokosuka when the capture occured. I don’t remember it, but my mother told me that my dad didn’t sleep at home for two weeks, he was in the communications hut on the base at the time.

He never spoke of it to me.


36 posted on 04/09/2007 6:09:09 PM PDT by rlmorel (Liberals: If the Truth would help them, they would use it.)
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To: CedarDave

It would be great if he could initiate the process of getting the Pueblo back. At one time, the NKs actually thought about returning her. The inevitable something happened and it still sits over in NK.


37 posted on 04/09/2007 6:11:38 PM PDT by NCC-1701 (ELIMINATE ORGANIZED CRIME. ABOLISH THE I.R.S.)
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To: amchugh

You have got tp be kidding me!


38 posted on 04/09/2007 6:18:47 PM PDT by BenLurkin
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To: Nuc1

Well...she was a ship of the U.S. Navy, and did have two .50 cal machine guns, so that does technically make her a warship.

COMNAVFORJAPAN (ADM Johnson) was against arming the vessel, and suggested the weapons be stored below, but made it clear that it was up to the Captain. In the end, they did have the guns on deck covered with tarpaulins, and never uncovered them.


39 posted on 04/09/2007 6:19:49 PM PDT by rlmorel (Liberals: If the Truth would help them, they would use it.)
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To: All

The feeling of helplessness sets in when you realize what a bunch of total pansies our leaders are. The elites in this country are not as tough as the leadership of enemy countries...and they aren’t as tough as most Americans either.

They are disgraces.


40 posted on 04/09/2007 6:22:11 PM PDT by rbmillerjr ("Message to radical jihadis...come to my hood, it's understood ------ it's open season" Stuck Mojo)
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