From: "Phil Payne" 

"Robert Comer"  wrote in message
news:455542cf$1{at}w3.nls.net...
> With only 10 ships, that's a single carrier battle group, sounds like it's
> for intimidation to me. (and it wont do any good only strengthen the
> Iranians resolve -- the current administration can be so stupid...)

Let us hope that it can be parcelled out as a dumbfuck idea of Rumsfled's,
and only command inertia has so far resulted in no cancellation.

Iranians react quite forcefully to attempted intimidation.  Maybe the USA
needs to lose a carrier or two to learn that.

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