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To: Always A Marine
. For the moment, North Korea has caught us with our pants down in Southwest Asia, lacking the the available forces and strategic mobility to back up our commitment to the defense of South Korea.

We don't need forces in Southwest Asia! Apparently you've never seen what a nuclear sub parked off the coast of North Korea can do! Hey Kim, fire your 1 or 2 nuke dongs (if they get off the ground) Then see what one nuke missle launched from a sub will do! Bye bye North Korea!

50 posted on 12/27/2002 2:22:21 PM PST by Bommer
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To: Bommer
We don't need forces in Southwest Asia!

Iraq is in Southwest Asia. That's where a large slice of our combat power, and most of our stategic lift capabilities, are presently committed.

Apparently you've never seen what a nuclear sub parked off the coast of North Korea can do!

Neither have you, and I pray we don't have to let that Genie out of the bottle again.

Hey Kim, fire your 1 or 2 nuke dongs (if they get off the ground) Then see what one nuke missle launched from a sub will do! Bye bye North Korea!

The present danger is not DPRK's nukes, but that Kim Jong Il might launch an invasion of South Korea with his conventional forces while we are tied down elsewhere (in Southwest Asia). If that happens, it is the United States which will need to resort to nukes to save our 37,000 troops from annihilation. If North Korea does obtain nukes, the threat to Tokyo just raises the stakes.

54 posted on 12/27/2002 2:48:16 PM PST by Always A Marine
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To: Bommer
Dearest Bommer, Thanks for that reminder!
I had just seriously begun to fret about all our Battle Groups being in, or about to be in, the NearEast!
I'm old enough to remember when our Navy would NOT send even one aircraft carrier into the Persian Gulf.
75 posted on 12/27/2002 3:52:12 PM PST by meema
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To: Bommer
Our people -- the Second Infantry Division and Seventh Air Force -- would be the targets for those one or two nukes.
195 posted on 12/30/2002 2:17:21 PM PST by Man of the Right
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