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2006-08-20 Home Front: WoT

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Posted by lotp 2006-08-20 07:37|| || Front Page|| [11134 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Are you kidding me??? Hitting Seattle it would get rid of half the moonbat liberals and most of my inlaws!!!!

Just kidding, I love you guys, really.

Posted by 49 pan 2006-08-20 10:52|| 2006-08-20 10:52|| Front Page Top

#2 Should build military platforms far enought out that any detonation would not harm the coasts.

Enforce all traffic through the platforms for inspection prior to the correspondng port. Continue coast guard patrols and coastal inspection.

At least there would be two physical layers of defense.

Posted by bombay">bombay 2006-08-20 10:59|| 2006-08-20 10:59|| Front Page Top

#3 Thanks to all these containers being offloaded without checking, not only port cities, but any city, is at the same risk. If you're very close you won't see any mushroom cloud. Only the flash of bright light.

Posted by SOP35/Rat 2006-08-20 12:47|| 2006-08-20 12:47|| Front Page Top

#4 Bombay,
That would cost more than my "Waterworld" set.

Posted by Kevin Costner 2006-08-20 12:50|| 2006-08-20 12:50|| Front Page Top

#5 Defense in depth can include remote sensing via unmanned equipment offshore.

Posted by lotp 2006-08-20 13:01|| 2006-08-20 13:01|| Front Page Top

#6 We can't inspect every single container

But there is a lot we can know about every single container.

Posted by Nimble Spemble 2006-08-20 13:07|| 2006-08-20 13:07|| Front Page Top

#7 3000-plus die in New York, Washington D.C., and a lonely field in Pennsylvania, and they yawn. One (luckily) false-alarum in their own port, and they "get religion".

Posted by Fordesque 2006-08-20 15:33|| 2006-08-20 15:33|| Front Page Top

#8 Here's a thought, BAN all imports and inspect all returning export sealand containers at sea! Phuech China and all the rest. We can make all we need right here in the good ole USA, and they decide they don't want our products, so be it.

Posted by Besoeker 2006-08-20 17:05|| 2006-08-20 17:05|| Front Page Top

#9 The only sure way to stop a terrorist is at the sourse.

Posted by gromgoru 2006-08-20 18:34|| 2006-08-20 18:34|| Front Page Top

#10 Gromgoru's right. We can harden this country until we can not move, a tactic that will never work. We, again, need to take the fight to our enemy. We have to make a decision here in America, do we want to live like this waiting for the next strike or do we have the strength to do what needs to be done to make America safe? If we want safe travel and no fear of terrorists we must get to destroying Iran. I don't care if gas goes to $10 a gallon, I want these crazies dead before they destroy a large segment of the US with a WMD.

Posted by 49 pan">49 pan 2006-08-20 19:31|| 2006-08-20 19:31|| Front Page Top

#11 I agree with you Pan and Grom. We should have thrown in with the IDF and smoked the Hezbots once and for all. The only satisfaction we have now is the clear and undeniable verification that the Lebs and Hezbot are co-conspirators.

Posted by Besoeker 2006-08-20 19:35|| 2006-08-20 19:35|| Front Page Top

#12 RAND figured that within 72 hours, about 60,000 people would have died from the blast or from radiation poisoning; 150,000 more people would have been exposed to hazardous radiation; 6 million people would try to evacuate the Los Angeles area; and 2 million to 3 million people would become refugees requiring relocation because of fallout.

Too bad they didn't attach a cost estimate to this assessment. Does ONE TRILLION DOLLARS sound too far fetched? To cite the venerable Mrs. Davis:

Issue an unequivocal proclamation to all rogue regimes and terrorist sponsors that a single terrorist NBC (Nuclear, Biological or Chemical) attack on American soil will result in all notified nations being summarily glassed and Windexed. No negotiations, no apologies, no further notice. Glassed and Windexed on the spot.

Then sit back and watch these twisted f&cks scramble to rein in nutjobs like Kim and Ahmadinejad.

An attack like the one proposed by the RAND Center would set our country back a solid decade. I refuse to accept the risk of this. It is why we need to begin exterminating all jihadist Islamic clergy like the cockroaches they are.

Posted by Zenster 2006-08-20 21:20|| 2006-08-20 21:20|| Front Page Top

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