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The Family-Friendly Easter Bomb Hunt (WAPo Assists Moonbats Again) - DC Chapter To Counter 4/9/07
Washington Post - The Insurgents' Best Friend in the USA ^
| Friday, April 6, 2007
| Sue Anne Pressley Montes
Posted on 04/06/2007 9:07:26 AM PDT by tgslTakoma
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To: JerseyJohn61
Actually, cluster bombs are used primarily on runways to create craters to impair take-offs and to disable aircraft.
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posted on
04/07/2007 7:43:59 AM PDT
by
concretebob
(I'm NOT pro-war, I'm ANTI - TERRORIST)
To: astounded
We need to bring back mandatory military service for all young men and women in the USA.Sorry, Bro, but you are wrong on this one.
Ask any active-duty personnel and they will tell you a draft is very bad idea.
They only want someone next to them and behind them who WANTS to be there.
Re-instate the draft, and you really will see a charlie-foxtrot of the first order.
The draft was the over-riding issue during Viet Nam.
We do not need another one.
We have enough to deal with now.
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posted on
04/07/2007 7:51:19 AM PDT
by
concretebob
(I'm NOT pro-war, I'm ANTI - TERRORIST)
To: concretebob
Actually, cluster bombs are used primarily on runways to create craters to impair take-offs and to disable aircraft.
Yes, and cluster bombs (bomblets) are also used with
MLRS to disable tanks and artillery. When used against military personnel, the enemy army usually immediately surrenders and the war is ended. So they stop almost any kind of war machine or organization. You might call them the ultimate
anti-war weapon!
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posted on
04/07/2007 8:57:23 AM PDT
by
\/\/ayne
(I regret that I have but one subscription cancellation notice to give to my local newspaper.)
To: \/\/ayne
I prefer the Daisy-cutter for personnel, though. Quick, thorough, and everything is sterilized.
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posted on
04/07/2007 3:52:21 PM PDT
by
concretebob
(I'm NOT pro-war, I'm ANTI - TERRORIST)
To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks
Profound comments with which I whole heartedly agree, from someone self labeling as not particularly religious. I happened to be watching the Lawrence Welk Show on PBS a few minutes before reading your comments.
I commented, “a better age, the world according to Mr Welk”. We couldn’t go too far wrong using his show philosophy. A self regulated man who gave America what he saw as good for them. Not likely that he would be pro easterbomb hunt.
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posted on
04/07/2007 5:41:33 PM PDT
by
wita
(truthspeaks@freerepublic.com)
To: concretebob
Is there a sarcasm tag, if not there should be.
46
posted on
04/07/2007 5:55:05 PM PDT
by
wita
(truthspeaks@freerepublic.com)
To: Excellence
I hope you’re right, because these people are out to lunch.
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posted on
04/07/2007 7:14:52 PM PDT
by
sasha123
To: concretebob; astounded
Second that -- from the wife of a Vietnam-era vet (they never shipped him overseas).
The draftees in his unit were more trouble than they were worth. Two of them they didn't even issue ammunition to.
Plus, the liberal moonbats all want a draft so they can get the cowardly and lazy college students on board for anti-draft riots. . . just like the LAST time.
No thanks. Let the warriors do their job.
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posted on
04/07/2007 8:20:54 PM PDT
by
AnAmericanMother
((Ministrix of Ye Chase, TTGC Ladies' Auxiliary (recess appointment)))
To: tgslTakoma
It’s supposed to be bitter cold and cloudy Monday. I hope it snows on the Socialists parade. I’m going to laugh if it snows tomorrow. Better yet, I hope we have a blizzard tomorrow.
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posted on
04/07/2007 9:58:53 PM PDT
by
3_wheeler
(Freedom Isn't Free (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/conservative_americans))
To: trooprally; tgslTakoma
I’m off but I just can’t make this one. Too bad, though, cuz I have this bag of water balloons that look just like grenades. . . . Ya might be able to find them in dollar stores in your area! :-)
To: wita
No sarcasm intended. That is what they were originally designed for.
Why would that be sarcastic?
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posted on
04/08/2007 3:43:06 AM PDT
by
concretebob
(I'm NOT pro-war, I'm ANTI - TERRORIST)
To: wita
No sarcasm intended. That is what they were originally designed for.
Why would that be sarcastic?
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posted on
04/08/2007 3:43:52 AM PDT
by
concretebob
(I'm NOT pro-war, I'm ANTI - TERRORIST)
To: concretebob
That was my point precisely, which you got. My thinking was that cluster bombs, or bomblets were the ultimate anti-personnel weapons. They do not have sufficient explosive power to put holes in runways. They will decimate airplanes with thin structures, but are not effective against armored vehicles. In vietnam we did have some airplanes that carried WWII bombs that contained numerous fire producing clusters of the kind used against Japanese cities, and were great at area bombing at night, when the aim was not near as good as day time.
Comments based purely on memory, and not recent research.
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posted on
04/08/2007 7:33:36 AM PDT
by
wita
(truthspeaks@freerepublic.com)
To: wita
MK-20 Rockeye
The MK-20 Rockeye is a free-fall, unguided cluster weapon designed to kill tanks and armored vehicles.
The system consists of a clamshell dispenser, a mechanical MK-339 timed fuze, and 247 dual-purpose armor-piercing shaped-charge bomblets.
The bomblet weighs 1.32 pounds and has a 0.4-pound shaped-charge warhead of high explosives, which produces up to 250,000 psi at the point of impact, allowing penetration of approximately 7.5 inches of armor.
Rockeye is most efficiently used against area targets requiring penetration to kill.
Fielded in 1968, the Rockeye dispenser is also used in the Gator air-delivered mine system.
During Desert Storm US Marines used the weapon extensively, dropping 15,828 of the 27,987 total Rockeyes against armor, artillery, and antipersonnel targets.
The remainder were dropped by Air Force (5,345) and Navy (6,814) aircraft.
If it will penetrate 7.5 inches of armor, I garontee it will put a hole in a concrete runway.
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posted on
04/08/2007 7:52:30 AM PDT
by
concretebob
(I'm NOT pro-war, I'm ANTI - TERRORIST)
To: concretebob; All
This link was posted over at the GOE forum:
http://www.vineeta.org/cancel
The text at the link reads:
This is a message to our listserv members as we cant update or edit our website page without the webmaster (whos Mon-Fri).
Sorry for this late notice but weve been contacted by the authorities that there are plans for a counter demonstration tomorrow and on their blogs (which theyve been monitoring and taking seriously) some of these groups have stated that theyd like to use violence against us.
Its lamentable that theres a segment in our society that feel that they must deal with all their problems and disagreements with violence :-(
But because there are children involved we, in consultation with the authorities, have decided to cancel our event.
We regret this but cant risk the security of the children. Hope youll understand and agree.
P.S. Please dont release this information widely because wed be happy for these groups to waste their time and resources with their counter demonstration tomorrow :-)
I'll believe the moonbats canceled when we get to the White House tomorrow and don't see them anywhere. I would not put it past them to try a misdirection ploy on us.
JUST TO BE CLEAR: WE ARE GO FOR MONDAY MORNING
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posted on
04/08/2007 9:09:58 AM PDT
by
kristinn
To: kristinn
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posted on
04/08/2007 9:21:46 AM PDT
by
kristinn
To: kristinn
Gee, I read the posts at WaPo’s website and out of three pages two were supportive and two were too incoherent to know what they were. A lot of posts from lefties not liking the idea of children making fake bombs. Hopefully the radical will just follow Neville Pelosi off the lunatic cliff.
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posted on
04/08/2007 9:29:35 AM PDT
by
armymarinedad
(Support, v., To take the side of; to uphold or help.)
To: tgslTakoma
Good Morning tgslTakoma.
Wish I was living closer to DC.I would take the day off to be there.
This is sick.
Wishing you and yours a blessed Easter.
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posted on
04/08/2007 9:32:11 AM PDT
by
Mrs.Nooseman
(Proudly supporting our Troops,Allies and our President GW!!!)
To: tgslTakoma
These people are mentally unstable
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posted on
04/08/2007 10:11:22 AM PDT
by
Mo1
( http://www.gohunter08.com)
To: armymarinedad
The moonbats like to push the envelope, even amonst their own.
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posted on
04/08/2007 10:21:56 AM PDT
by
kristinn
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