[NewLand]

Reminder: CiC is the #1 role of POTUS...Ron Paul is not qualified for that.

In an October 11, 2007 interview with The Washington Post, Paul said, "There's nobody in this world that could possibly attack us today... I mean, we could defend this country with a few good submarines"

[Mojave]

Paul said, "There's nobody in this world that could possibly attack us today... I mean, we could defend this country with a few good submarines"

Was he stoned?

[Palin Republic]

>we could defend this country with a few good submarines

That is true. Some people just have no idea what "Ohio class" or "Trident II" mean.

The Ohio class is named after the lead submarine of this class, the USS Ohio (SSGN-726). The 14 Trident II SSBNs together carry around fifty percent of the total U.S. strategic warhead inventory. The exact number varies in an unpredictable and highly classified manner, at or below a maximum set by various strategic arms limitation treaties. Although the missiles have no pre-set targets when the submarine goes on patrol, the platform, when required, is capable of rapid targeting using secure and constant at-sea communications links.

The missile attains a temporary low altitude orbit only a few minutes after launch. The Guidance System for the missile is an Inertial Guidance System with an additional Star-Sighting system, which is used to correct small positional errors that have accrued during the flight.

[Mojave]

“Does he mean attacks like 9-11? Khobar towers? The USS Cole? Tanzanian Embassies? Marine Barracks in Lebanon? The attack on the Penatgon or the first World Trade Center Bombing? I always thought that Ron Paul said things like this because he was nutty – sorry to be so blunt – but it might be because he’s just stupid.”

http://chip91.wordpress.com/2007/10/14/ron-paul-says-we-just-need-a-few-submarines-to-defend-america/