[Ramius]

Think U.S.S. Cole, where they had our brave men and women manning guns with no bullets in them and terrorist monkeys coming along side the ship with tons of explosives in a boat.

We'll never win the war on terror with an idiot for a leader.

So... we should just be wasting whole boats full of people as we enter port when those boats get within some x-number of yards to a ship of the line? Yah... swift move Einstein.

Oh... and the "idiot for a leader" you are talking about was Clinton, right?

[Stringfellow Hawke]

Einstein, the people on the boat that were manning the guns were waving off these terrorist monkeys that got too close to the boat. If they had had bullets in their weapons and not been conditioned to be afraid of taking the initiative, they would have saved many lives.

I'm talking about our boy Bush, who ties the hands of our troops behind their backs by not letting them bomb the crap out of a stupid cemetery where a bunch of filthy rats were hiding at while they were killing off our troops from it. I'm talking about the same guy who is giving illegals a free ride at the expense of our national security and national identity. I am not blaming bush for the Cole bombing, just stating in general that when you have a weak leader, the nation is weak. I'm including clinton it this.

[EricT.]

So... we should just be wasting whole boats full of people as we enter port when those boats get within some x-number of yards to a ship of the line? Yah... swift move Einstein.

Well...when pulling into port in a terrorist rich nation, they should have at least been given permission to put some shots across the bow as a warning and then smoke 'em if they continued. Our Coast Guard does this daily to suspected drug smugglers that do not heed radio and loudspeaker warnings to stop and be boarded.

During my active duty Navy days, I was able to carry loaded weapons regularly in the Bush years. In the Clinton years, I had to stand watch with an unloaded .45 and even during security alerts as a Reaction Force team member had to run around my ship with an unloaded 12 guage in one hand and a shell in the other. Imagine a U.S.warship full of qualified people treated like Barney Fife by the brass.