[mathurine]

Maybe since we can't bomb Vieques, which I believe the United States actually bought from private owners for the express purpose, we could bomb Rosie Roads. The Vieques business was a well-financed campaign by real estate interests to free up some nice Caribbean property for development. Probably with only some minimal contributions, they were also able to sucker the ever-willing mainline churches to move the issue up high on their social justice agenda. Neither money grubbers nor clerics without calls care much about the effective training of the troops this country deploys in order insure that we have free speach and a free economy. Let the troops die in droves, they would say, as long as we either make money or feel good at the end of any given day.

[4Freedom]

"Neither...care much about the effective training of the troops this country deploys..."

Thanks, Mathurine. It's nice to see a comment from a conservative among all those from the herd of RINOs on this thread.

The training accident that started the most recent rounds of protests on Vieques was evidence that this training on Vieques was sorely needed.

If that happens on the battlefield, hundreds could die. That's why the Navy was training on Vieques. The Navy was trying to avoid the death of hundreds of friendlies and cause the deaths of the enemy in the most effective way.

If Puerto Rico refuses to let us train on the land we own on Vieques, we don't need Puerto Rico for anything else at all. Period. We should cut them loose.

The RINOs don't get it.