Samford – That is why they didn’t use multiple box launchers like everyone else. Potential problems with cook offs.
Or they could have taken a hit.

Horsepucky. Just about every Soviet ship by the 70s was fitted with a Quad or two of surface0to-surface missiles or cruise missiles. Even dinky little patrol craft that you wondered how they’d launch and not capsize.

Soviet ships were not designed to take battle damage.

More horsepucky. Obviously you never saw the inside of a Soviet war vessel or looked at a design layout of one.

RWE – Haul out your vintage Rand McNalley World Atlas Centennial Edition and look on page 29. You will notice that one of the bordering nations to Georgia is named Iran.

Look again. Georgia does not border Iran.
That would be Turkey, Armenia, and Azerbaijan – none of which would be overjoyed to have Zionists in their airspace.

Samford – The Navy can hit most anywhere in Iran from the Indian Ocean also, I think. Then there is that big air base in Afghanistan. No, it isn’t basing or logistics that is the problem with military action in Georgia, it is the lack of testicles at the Pentagon and White House. Considering that a B2 could load up on bombs in the USA and deliver them in Georgia about 16 hours later, the ENTIRE USA is a logistics zone for an air campaign over Georgia.

And which countries would sign on to the US airspace permissions? That, and the minor detail that aside from neocon bootlickers, no one is slavering for WWIII against the Russians.

Nahncee – NahnCee:

Navy can deal with Russian hijinks. After all, they’ve been playing Crazy Ivan for decades.

How sweet to know that after 5 years and 2 trillion blown and 30,000 casualties that Iraq was a cakewalk after all, just as the neocons promised, only awaiting the right moment for the Army to wrap a bowtie on it!

And Afghanistan and Pakistan, more neocon “cakewalk”! adventure for eager Marines in the 50,000 deployable on a sustained basis – facing 22 million Pashtuns and the Pak military of 3 million.

And for our “Special Friend” what better gift than the American Air Force violating other nations airspace to do a “simple surgical bombing of Iran”.

The Navy will use the small humanitarian task force it now has in the Black Sea to confront the entire Caucausus Russian military, including 300 strike fighters, the S-300V/P and S-400 integrated air defenses, and the shore batteries and bombers seeking to retaliate with cruise missiles and Sunburn antiship missiles.

I guess that leaves the Coast Guard to protect our Special Friend from Hezbollah if it starts kicking their asses again.

Meanwhile, of course, Congress will not summarily impeach Bush and indict the cabal of 25 or so neocons pushing war for criminal acts – but will instead cheerlead 3 new wars – “Go Beloved Maximum War Leader BUsh, Hurray for our Special Friend and its money-dispensing lobbyists!” “And God bless the noble freedom lovers of the countries we are bombing!!”

Nahncee – Life is good. And they said America is stretched too thin.

Of course it is. Your relatives are safe from the Draft so you can saber-rattle away, and Bush has figured out that he can give massive tax cuts to the rich in wartime and fight multiple wars as long as China, Japan, and Saudi Arabia loan us funds and only have to be repaid after Bush leaves office.

For the volunteer military, yes they are stretched thin. And we have less ships, subs, air transports, fighter jets, tanks, bombers, and working artillery pieces than when Bush took office,

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On that report that we sent just over 46 AF flights into Iraq, Pakistan and Afghanistan loaded each with 70 million in pallets of freshly printed 100 dollar bills for the “noble Muslim courageous freedom lover leaders and brave officer and police friends and hero contractors”. And that that money is now surfacing by the truckload in Syria, Dubai, and Switzerland……

Wouldn’t have been nice if just one of those AF flights for direct bribes & contractors handing out cash had instead been diverted to drop 70 million in 100-bills over just one zip code location full of Americans?

Wouldn’t have had to be even a distressed area like Michigan or Upstate NY or Ohio. Just any zip code…