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To: 2Wheels

The F-22 is a boondogle.

Besides, you can’t fight terrorists with the F-22 - It was designed to shoot down the best and brightest Soviet fighters around. Well, they ain’t around and soon neither will be the F-22.

Maybe the Air Force should be next on the chopping block. It would be poetic justice.


48 posted on 04/06/2009 11:21:11 AM PDT by Professor_Leonide (I said to the young man who showed me a photo, "Who can ever be sure what is behind a mask?")
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To: Professor_Leonide

You’re embarrassing yourself with your ignorance.


50 posted on 04/06/2009 11:22:35 AM PDT by buccaneer81 (Bob Taft has soiled the family name for the next century.)
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To: Professor_Leonide

Wow, you sure aren’t making many friends today.


53 posted on 04/06/2009 11:24:06 AM PDT by Travis T. OJustice (I can spell just fine, thanks, it's my typing that sucks.)
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To: Professor_Leonide

“Maybe the Air Force should be next on the chopping block. It would be poetic justice.”

Oh dear god


54 posted on 04/06/2009 11:24:18 AM PDT by NinoFan
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Aren’t we being shortsighted?? We must adapt for all possibilities..


58 posted on 04/06/2009 11:25:55 AM PDT by KevinDavis (No one should question our "Dear Leader"!)
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To: Professor_Leonide
Maybe the Air Force should be next on the chopping block. It would be poetic justice.

Russia and China are not going anywhere, prof. You'd do yourself a favor by passing these type threads.

64 posted on 04/06/2009 11:29:34 AM PDT by jazusamo (But there really is no free lunch, except in the world of political rhetoric,.: Thomas Sowell)
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Maybe the Air Force should be next on the chopping block. It would be poetic justice.

The man is a troll.

Sir,


66 posted on 04/06/2009 11:29:51 AM PDT by bill1952 (Power is an illusion created between those with power - and those without)
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To: Professor_Leonide

Considering that China is expanding their armed forces and the Russians are continuing to upgrade their air armaments, your statement is illogical.

They are as much a deterrent as anything else, and as soon as they are surpassed by manned or unmanned fighters we look to be left up the creek without a paddle.

The F22 is far from a boondoggle. Just because it has not YET been used for its intended purpose does not mean it never will see combat as intended.


67 posted on 04/06/2009 11:30:00 AM PDT by Pox
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You haven’t answered any of your accusations with proof. Only your emotional, empty, insipid rhetoric. I pray you live to see the day you regret your vacuous words regarding the USAF and the necessity for continual air superiority. Because you never know when you’re going to need it. And if you’ve been hiding under a rock the past ten years, the Chinese, Pakis, and yes, Russians to mention a few, have been upgrading the crap out of their AF’s and defensive systems. Terrorists hiding in caves aren’t the only enemy.

Jeez, go back to “professing” something you know about because you obviously don’t know jack $h!t about the USAF and air superiority.

SZ


68 posted on 04/06/2009 11:30:40 AM PDT by SZonian (I'm a Canal Zone brat)
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Besides, you can’t fight terrorists with the F-22 - It was designed to shoot down the best and brightest Soviet fighters around. Well, they ain’t around and soon neither will be the F-22.

What in the hell makes you think we're just going to be fighting terrorists from now on? When the day comes (and it will eventually come) that we cross swords with someone that has a real military and a real air force, we're going to wish like hell we had a system like the F-22 to deploy against them.
74 posted on 04/06/2009 11:32:11 AM PDT by JamesP81 (When Obama signed an order providing tax dollars to murder children, he stopped being my president)
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To: Professor_Leonide

Are you being sarcastic or are you just a stupid man?


79 posted on 04/06/2009 11:34:01 AM PDT by jveritas (God Bless our brave troops)
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Well, they ain’t around and soon neither will be the F-22.

Nah and China's not a threat either. What the aych-ee-double-toothpicks are you a professor of anyway? Tinker toys and leggos?

106 posted on 04/06/2009 11:41:33 AM PDT by numberonepal (Don't Even Think About Treading On Me)
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To: Professor_Leonide

“The F-22 is a boondogle.”

I think I know where the ‘boodoggle’ is there Mr. Professor.

I suspect you salute to the big ZERO.


107 posted on 04/06/2009 11:42:11 AM PDT by 2Wheels
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To: Professor_Leonide

“The F-22 is a boondogle.

Besides, you can’t fight terrorists with the F-22 - It was designed to shoot down the best and brightest Soviet fighters around. Well, they ain’t around and soon neither will be the F-22.

Maybe the Air Force should be next on the chopping block. It would be poetic justice.”

You have just outed yourself as a leftist troll.


113 posted on 04/06/2009 11:43:10 AM PDT by ohioman
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To: Professor_Leonide
Maybe the Air Force should be next on the chopping block.

"Professor"?

You ought to be sitting in the corner of the classroom with a dunce cap on.

151 posted on 04/06/2009 12:05:47 PM PDT by Windflier (To anger a conservative, tell him a lie. To anger a liberal, tell him the truth.)
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To: Professor_Leonide

I understand that you and your fellow DUers are embarassed that the US is a superpower and the “policemen of the world”, so just how will you all feel when China or Russia, who really, REALLY, want to be the world’s superpower, are the new policemen, and policing YOU?


170 posted on 04/06/2009 12:17:53 PM PDT by HelloooClareece ("We make war that we may live in peace". Aristotle)
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To: Professor_Leonide

believe me I have insight on the Russians and they do have a military which can still function and they are building up their military right now.


206 posted on 04/06/2009 12:34:54 PM PDT by manc (Marriage is between a man and a woman no sick queer sham--- end racism end affirmative action)
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To: Professor_Leonide

“The F-22 is a boondogle.”

...and your ass sucks buttermilk. In fact, by your post, it would appear that you don’t know your ass from a hole in the ground.


256 posted on 04/06/2009 12:58:40 PM PDT by papasmurf (Trow da' bum out!)
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To: Professor_Leonide

IBTZ!


257 posted on 04/06/2009 12:59:21 PM PDT by papasmurf (Trow da' bum out!)
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To: Professor_Leonide

You spelled your name incorrectly. It should be ‘troll’.


280 posted on 04/06/2009 1:23:56 PM PDT by HattonFarmer (Fear the government that fears your gun.)
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"Maybe the Air Force should be next on the chopping block. It would be poetic justice.

Is it uncomfortable walking around with your head up your a$$ all day long?

296 posted on 04/06/2009 1:43:52 PM PDT by Big_Monkey
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