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The USS George Washington is heading to Gulf within 96 Hours.
Fox News | 12/27/02

Posted on 12/27/2002 10:04:44 AM PST by Sparta

The USS George Washington has been put on the alert and told to prepare to deploy within 96 hours to the Persian Gulf. Developing....


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To: Poohbah
How many GPS-guided GBU-28s would it take to shut Yongbyong down?

Do we have enough B-2s for a follow-on strike?
141 posted on 12/27/2002 11:04:29 AM PST by hchutch
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To: Formerly Brainwashed Democrat
It's a wonder the Commie socialist democruds can connect toilet paper with the tiny dot on their tight arses. It must be real disconcerting to them to stop whining, screaming, throwing dust and rocks into the air long enough to attend to business.
142 posted on 12/27/2002 11:04:35 AM PST by Quix
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To: Dog
You posted, ....I am afraid the NK's are going to blunder into a war.

The NK's and the Islamofascists, the Euro Trash liberals and others still think that the Clintoon and Da$$hole run this country. They constantly underestimate President and our military under Rummy and President Bush.

That will prove to be very fatal to the NK's and the Islamofascist thugs who rule Iraq, Iran and Syria!

The NK's and Islamofascist thugs will continue to read the NY Slimes, DC Compost and watch and listen to ABCNNBCBS and think that these left wing maggots represent America in their whining and a$$ kissing of those who would kill us in a Hollywood minute!

They are caught in some old and dangerous timewarp where they think the Clintoon and Da$$hole and Patty Murray are in charge and 9/11 has been forgotten. The Axis of evil will probably be history by the next 9/11 anniversary.

143 posted on 12/27/2002 11:05:48 AM PST by Grampa Dave
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To: mhking
USS Truman has already shipped out....

The USS Harry S. Truman - US Navy's most modern aircraft carrier - left the French port of Marseille en route for the eastern Mediterranean to support a possible war on Iraq, on Friday, four days after anchoring in the port.

144 posted on 12/27/2002 11:05:50 AM PST by Dog
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To: The Vast Right Wing
When people start whinning about his diplomatic approach they should remember what Powell is, a General. That means he understands that he serves at the pleasure of his commanding officer, the president.

Also explains why he quit when Clinton was President ..

145 posted on 12/27/2002 11:05:50 AM PST by Mo1
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To: mhking
IIRC, the Truman's already deployed.

This is going to be another of the carrier battle groups we have out there.
146 posted on 12/27/2002 11:05:57 AM PST by hchutch
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
Skullery wants to talk to them.

Hmmm. Any way we could lock her and Kim Jung Ill sp? in a tiny cubical together and missplace the key?
147 posted on 12/27/2002 11:06:41 AM PST by Quix
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To: hchutch
One W-80 ought to do it.
148 posted on 12/27/2002 11:07:15 AM PST by CougarGA7
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To: Ford Fairlane
We had a young Marine at our home for Christmas this year. He was gonna stay with us thru new years. (D.C. sightseeing and all that kind of stuff.) He got a phone call Christmas day and headed back yesterday morning.

He had just gotten back from 6 months over there. Spent most of his time stationed off the coast of Bahrain.
149 posted on 12/27/2002 11:07:55 AM PST by CJinVA
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To: mhking
I believe the Truman is already in the Med. I think 'alert' means, get ready to go to the area. Either way, we should know soon.
150 posted on 12/27/2002 11:07:59 AM PST by relee
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To: Quix
Skullery wants to talk to them.

Ok fine .. should send her a one way ticket

151 posted on 12/27/2002 11:08:13 AM PST by Mo1
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To: mhking
Better start watching their northern neighbors closely too.(And Hillary.)
152 posted on 12/27/2002 11:08:23 AM PST by Domestic Church
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To: Servant of the Nine
Thanks, So9.

But, letting them celebrate CHRISTMAS?!?

Does that mean that Christians are still being accepted in the US military?

Always still useful for cannon fodder I guess, not in much demand for anything else, here at home.

153 posted on 12/27/2002 11:08:28 AM PST by crystalk
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To: Dirk McQuickly
Interesting post. One diplomatic factor to consider is the recent election of a dreaded "moderate" in South Korea. It could be that the NK's are rattling their swords for regional reasons and not trying to pull the US into a unilateral invasion.

That said, the situation in NK seems to warrant an Israeli-like air strike to take out the operable nuclear sites and not an all-out military action. Iraq didn't respond in 1981 and I doubt NK will today.

Someone with military experience -- does this make sense?
154 posted on 12/27/2002 11:09:03 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
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To: Veggie Todd
"Damn that's a beautiful picture of the carrier. I've got goose bumps. Thank God it's on our side."

dittos to your comments FRiend! Here's another USS George Washington pic:


155 posted on 12/27/2002 11:09:13 AM PST by FBD
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To: hchutch
The problem is, it is not just at Yongbyon. It (the nuke program) is also scattered throughout the country, and some hidden underground, such as Mt. Chonma, also a site referred to as "Hagop" (arguments over where it is actually), Taechon, Reiteri, and then
facilities up near the Chinese border. It would seem the first thing we would do is disable all North Korea scud, nodong and taepondong launchsites (also scattered around the country and some deep underground). We would have quite an artillery fire across the DMZ into the south and on Seoul, too. We would have our hands full trying to neutralize that as the death toll in the south rose.
156 posted on 12/27/2002 11:09:54 AM PST by AmericanInTokyo
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To: Mo1
A good point I hadn't considered.
157 posted on 12/27/2002 11:10:12 AM PST by The Vast Right Wing
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To: Dirk McQuickly
"Crunch time" for the free world feels like an understatement.

Let us earnestly pray it's not Custer's last stand in the coming months.
158 posted on 12/27/2002 11:10:17 AM PST by Quix
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To: Quix
Any way we could lock her and Kim Jung Ill sp? in a tiny cubical together and missplace the key?

Now, that's just cruel!

You know that some Koreans consider DOG a delicacy, and Hitlery is a very large example.
Probably enough to feed a NK village for a week!

("it takes a village", you know)

159 posted on 12/27/2002 11:10:37 AM PST by Constitution Day
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To: Dirk McQuickly
...Instead, they started shipping SCUDS to Iraq...

I wonder if Iraq is offering to pay North Korea for bomb material, and that's why North Korea kicked out the UN inspectors and started up the reactors.

160 posted on 12/27/2002 11:10:56 AM PST by relee
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