From: "Phil Payne" 

> I doubt even that.  Not if we don't want to start a war, because you
> know the first thing they'll do is send out antiship missiles and we
> have quite a lot of assets in range.  Any attack against our fleet
> would escalate things VERY fast.

I set no bounds on Shrub's stupidity.  One of the most chilling comments in
recent days was Cheney's, to the effect that the Arrmy answers to only one
Commander in Chief.

Fhrerbefehl?

You have 150,000-odd Americans 7,000 miles from home surrounded on 3 1/2
sides by potential hostiles.  Three of the bordering nations are well armed
and quite proficient.  You are already twitching at home about a mere 3,000
dead but have massive concentrations of carbon-based lifeforms in megabases
and on ships.

Your move.  How many dead can you take in another war you can never win on
top of the two you already have?

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