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State Department lifts ban on exports of night-vision goggles
WASHINGTON TIMES ^ | February 24, 2010 | Nicholas Kralev and Bill Gertz THE

Posted on 02/24/2010 8:25:45 AM PST by opentalk

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To: maine-iac7
New missile Defense Logo- now on Drudge

Islamic Flag.

21 posted on 02/24/2010 8:49:03 AM PST by opentalk
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To: opentalk; Jet Jaguar; NorwegianViking; ExTexasRedhead; HollyB; FromLori; ...

The list, ping


22 posted on 02/24/2010 8:54:01 AM PST by Nachum (The complete Obama list at www.nachumlist.com)
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To: opentalk

This is written as though night vision equipment isn’t made in other countries. I guess this ban is o.k. if you don’t want America to manufacture things, but don’t think that by extending this ban that you would hinder folks who want such things. Russians make fine night vision equipmnent, and I’m sure they don’t care who they will sell it to.


23 posted on 02/24/2010 8:56:48 AM PST by zeugma (Proofread a page a day: http://www.pgdp.net/)
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To: maine-iac7

but.. but... Stephanolopoulous SWORE to
America that Obama was NOT Muslim.

ABC Lies.


24 posted on 02/24/2010 8:58:03 AM PST by Diogenesis ("Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God." --Thomas Jefferson)
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To: Obadiah

Consider the possibility these are not for military use, but for voyeurs!

Sarcasm aside, this administration cares not for the security of this nation.


25 posted on 02/24/2010 8:59:17 AM PST by Loud Mime (Liberalism is a Socialist Disease)
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To: opentalk

Our night-vision technology is what gives us a decisive advantage on the battlefield. And these guys want to make it easier for our enemies to get it?


26 posted on 02/24/2010 9:00:59 AM PST by PapaBear3625 (Public healthcare looks like it will work as well as public housing did.)
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To: Loud Mime
"Sarcasm aside, this administration cares not for the security of this nation."

Actually, King Obama does care. He wants to Reduce the security.

27 posted on 02/24/2010 9:01:19 AM PST by Diogenesis ("Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God." --Thomas Jefferson)
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To: opentalk
Can we lift the ban on imported Eastern bloc firearms then while we are at it?

I'd love to pick up a Hungarian Gepard.

28 posted on 02/24/2010 9:03:02 AM PST by Dead Corpse (III, Oathkeeper)
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To: PapaBear3625
What is the motive???
29 posted on 02/24/2010 9:03:24 AM PST by opentalk
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To: Diogenesis

You say: “but.. but... Stephanolopoulous SWORE to
America that Obama was NOT Muslim.”

But he had to correct and remind Obyuummer - gads.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bMUgNg7aD8M


30 posted on 02/24/2010 9:21:16 AM PST by maine-iac7 ("He has the right to criticize who has the heart to help" Lincoln)
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To: opentalk

“In declining states the leadership intuitively choses the most harmful course of action.”-A Great Historian 1888


31 posted on 02/24/2010 9:29:22 AM PST by AEMILIUS PAULUS (It is a shame that when these people give a riot)
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To: opentalk

Mmmmm

No more night raids in Afghanistan
Ban of export of night vision goggles lifted by State Department.

Hello???? Is anyone home in DC?


32 posted on 02/24/2010 9:34:58 AM PST by Protect the Bill of Rights
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To: maine-iac7

Oh yes. Even some (not many) Houstonians are waking up to the fact that between the oil industry and NASA. We are TOAST. (Job wise)


33 posted on 02/24/2010 9:45:37 AM PST by Marty62 (former Marty60)
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To: opentalk
What is the motive???

Follow the money. Some people are getting paid off to allow this. Foreign countries like China figure it's cheaper to reverse engineer our gear than develop their own, and are willing to grease palms in DC.

34 posted on 02/24/2010 10:52:16 AM PST by PapaBear3625 (Public healthcare looks like it will work as well as public housing did.)
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"...This is written as though night vision equipment isn’t made in other countries.... Russians make fine night vision equipmnent..."

However, their technology is 2nd generation, and ours is 4th generation. There is an enormous difference between the two. For instance, when the flash of a rifle hits a second generation reticle, it burns out the delicate parts in an instant, as it is the same as looking into the sun with them. The newer ones are far more complicated.

Or something; I'm just regurgitating parts of a Tom Clancy novel.

35 posted on 02/24/2010 12:11:15 PM PST by I Buried My Guns
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To: opentalk

Clinton II - and I guess Lenin was right.


36 posted on 02/24/2010 12:29:20 PM PST by NonValueAdded ("Roll back Pelosi" Rush Limbaugh, 2/12/10)
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To: opentalk

One of the advantages we have over the jihadis in Irag and Afghanistan is technology such as night vision goggles.

They can get inferior Russian made stuff but it is all expensive. Why would anyone want to put our boys at risk by permitting export of this technologic marvel.


37 posted on 02/24/2010 1:57:33 PM PST by wildbill (You're just jealous because the Voices talk only to me.)
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To: opentalk

why??


38 posted on 02/24/2010 2:06:26 PM PST by elpadre (AfganistaMr Obama said the goal was to "disrupt, dismantle and defeat al-Qaeda" and its allies.)
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To: elpadre

Good question.


39 posted on 02/24/2010 2:08:23 PM PST by opentalk
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