[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

We need to get a lot of the carrier groups out of that shooting gallery....

[blam]

"We need to get a lot of the carrier groups out of that shooting gallery...."

That whole area was completely dry during the Ice Age.

[TigerLikesRooster]

Now, this is a legacy worth pursuing.

[PhilDragoo]

According to Richard Miniter in Losing bin Laden we had bin Laden in the sights of a Hellfire-armed Predator in 2000 and didn't have the nerve to take the shot.

We know a President Hussein would want to chat with bin Laden (visited Karachi for three weeks in 81 with the Chandoo brothers midst Zia's "Kalashnikov Culture").

If we can get Osama's head in a jar, that would be best.

A pink mist is fine.

A general cloud of debris stretching for a thousand kilometers in the stratosphere is also good.

One thing, do not take any JAGs, nor imbedded reporters, and if Murtha smears or Rockefeller leaks, it's the Yuri I. Nosenko Suite for the duration.

Good hunting.

[Marine_Uncle]

Something not so readily apparent from a cursory read is that that CENTCOM must feel we have the Persian Gulf adequately covered at present regarding the imagined or real threat levels the Persians pose in disrupting the flow of oil/gas/gasoline/petrochemical derivatives in the Persian Gulf.
As for moving CVN72 Carrier Strike Group into Paki waters, for the stated purposes, it sure looks like the days of reckoning have started for the Pakistani government. Their gross inactions for so long now will come back to bite them.