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To: TigerLikesRooster
South Korea returned fire with 80 shells and scrambled fighter jets as President Lee Myung Bak vowed to respond “sternly.” Local television channel YTN showed smoke billowing from Yeonpyeong island off South Korea’s northwest coast and said residents took cover in bomb shelters. Stocks and U.S. futures dropped while the dollar and Swiss franc strengthened.

Obama and his bumbling team of amateurs are not going to know what to do. Sec Gates has proved himself to be a putz - concerned only with slashing defense spending (so Obama can dole out trillions in more "stimulus" to Democrat districts). Furthermore, Gates is a PC-warrior. He folded like a cheap tent on signing on to end Don't Ask Don't Tell, he said nothing about Islamic terrorism following the Ft. Hood Massacre, and he fires those around him who dare question his lack of clarity.


164 posted on 11/23/2010 3:40:46 AM PST by SkyPilot
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Gates is a disappointment.

Update

Island residents evacuated by a ship and landing at Inchon Harbor:


168 posted on 11/23/2010 3:46:17 AM PST by TigerLikesRooster (The way to crush the bourgeois is to grind them between the millstones of taxation and inflation)
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