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2006-08-02 China-Japan-Koreas

China has deployed missiles giving it second-strike capability against U.S.

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Posted by Anonymoose 2006-08-02 15:58|| || Front Page|| [6 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Or we could sink the subs while they were preparing to launch. Not that we'd know where they were of course, nope.

Posted by 6 2006-08-02 16:58|| 2006-08-02 16:58|| Front Page Top

#2 And, of course, liberals still are opposed to any kind of defense.

Posted by Jackal">Jackal 2006-08-02 17:57|| http://home.earthlink.net/~sleepyjackal/index.html]">[http://home.earthlink.net/~sleepyjackal/index.html] 2006-08-02 17:57|| Front Page Top

#3 Someone needs to produce a Chinese verion of "The Day After" and beam it into China on a weekly basis until outraged mobs descend on the Politburo demanding their money be spent more productively.

Posted by Zenster 2006-08-02 18:35|| 2006-08-02 18:35|| Front Page Top

#4 Beijing has also sought to overcome the vulnerability of its fleet by building a huge naval base on Hainan Island in the South China Sea. The sources said the base would contain an underground facility to shelter platforms, such as nuclear submarines, against any potential U.S. attack.

Considering the amount of time that Chinese subs spend at sea and the problems they've had in the past with their diesel boats, it's problematic as to whether or not any Chinese subs would make it out of this deathtrap in the actual case of war.

And then there'd be some US hunter-killer boats sitting off outside the inlets aways doing nothing but sitting there, silently, waiting...

"Cap'n, sonar reports definite Chinese contact bearing three zero five coming out of the inlet at 5 knots."

"Sonar, pass firing solution to torpedo room. Ready on two."

"Ready on two, aye."

"Fire two."

"Two away."

"Cap'n, sonar reports definite kill on the lead boat."

"Well, that pretty much bottles them up now doesn;t it. Pass the word to CINCPAC."

Posted by FOTSGreg">FOTSGreg 2006-08-02 19:33|| 2006-08-02 19:33|| Front Page Top

#5 Close enuff to TAIWAN, PHILIPPINES, THAILAND, and VIETNAM, etc. for Motherly Commie Gummermint work and hyper-correctness, aka cutting off the Main Line(s) of Reinforcement/Logistics/Commo to WESTPAC-JAPAN. Make sure to order flowers and candies for Mother's day at your local Gulag-Death Camp, you Male brute you.

Posted by JosephMendiola 2006-08-02 23:20|| 2006-08-02 23:20|| Front Page Top

#6 We have Bill Clinton to thank for this. When the Chinese missle engineers were struggling, he gave them the tools and technology, in exchange for donations to his Presidential campaign.

Posted by Spavigum Glinens9851 2006-08-02 23:46|| 2006-08-02 23:46|| Front Page Top

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