From: "Robert G Lewis" 


"Phil Payne"  wrote in
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> "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.
>
>

If  we lose a carrier  or two to Iran you can expect Iran to lose a city or
two at least. We react quite strongly to attacks.

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