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2004-11-30 Afghanistan/South Asia

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Posted by Steve 2004-11-30 2:32:25 PM|| || Front Page|| [4 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 ROFL! It's hard to see how the Mad Mullahs can "ratchet up" the screech to include this new development, I thought they were banging against the ceiling already, but they've never let me down before, so... let a new round begin! LOL!

Posted by .com 2004-11-30 2:50:03 PM|| 2004-11-30 2:50:03 PM|| Front Page Top

#2 Was that a strangled *urk* sound we just heard from Tehran, or an aftershock from Bam?

Posted by Seafarious 2004-11-30 2:53:37 PM|| 2004-11-30 2:53:37 PM|| Front Page Top

#3 "Oh, was that your air force? Sorry, my bad..."

Posted by mojo 2004-11-30 2:54:08 PM|| 2004-11-30 2:54:08 PM|| Front Page Top

#4 Don't the Iraqis need a base 28 miles from the other Iranian border? I think they DO! This would be useful "in order to provide transportation facilities for the ~~Afghan~~ IRAQI National Army"

Posted by justrand 2004-11-30 3:08:02 PM|| 2004-11-30 3:08:02 PM|| Front Page Top

#5 Tick... tick... tick...

Posted by Dave D. 2004-11-30 3:08:30 PM|| 2004-11-30 3:08:30 PM|| Front Page Top

#6 This is the base for "show".

Posted by Shipman 2004-11-30 3:27:58 PM|| 2004-11-30 3:27:58 PM|| Front Page Top

#7 Are we going to buy the Afgan national airforce MIG-29(s)

Might be a good idea if they had a few hundred. It would make the Russians very happy. How about making Iran bankrupt just like the former USSR.

Posted by Sock Puppet of Doom 2004-11-30 3:28:20 PM|| [http://www.slhess.com] 2004-11-30 3:28:20 PM|| Front Page Top

#8 There's gotta be some not-quite-the-best-but-still-pretty-durned-good planes sitting at Davis-Monthan we could let Iraq and Afghanistan have.

Posted by Mike 2004-11-30 3:34:30 PM|| 2004-11-30 3:34:30 PM|| Front Page Top

#9 Shipman:

Gee, what a great thought: "Hey hey hey ! Lookee over here at our big scary base in Afghanistan lookee lookee !" then *wham* from Incirlik....

Posted by Carl in N.H. 2004-11-30 3:38:02 PM|| 2004-11-30 3:38:02 PM|| Front Page Top

#10 Let somebody slip that its a refueling point for the Israeli's so they can make it home "afterwards", and then we'll see the spittle fly.

Posted by Laurence of the Rats 2004-11-30 4:39:34 PM|| [http://www.punictreachery.com/] 2004-11-30 4:39:34 PM|| Front Page Top

#11 Yeap,Mike.Use to pass by thier everyday,F-4's,104'S,F-15'S,16's,c-130's,you name it they probably got it.

Posted by raptor 2004-11-30 5:59:22 PM|| 2004-11-30 5:59:22 PM|| Front Page Top

#12 I'll bet they've still got a whole lot of B-52's. First time I drove by DM it was in the summer and it loked like a sail boat regatta till I got to the fence and saw they were tails of BUFFs.

Posted by Mrs. Davis 2004-11-30 6:13:52 PM|| 2004-11-30 6:13:52 PM|| Front Page Top

#13 This base, if it was square, would be 1.1 miles on a side. if it was more rectangular than square, then it would be more of the shape for an airfield. So I would see the base as more for troops and tactical aircraft. I would think that you would want an airfield at least 5000 ft long. You need some room for a perimeter and security, too.

Posted by Alaska Paul 2004-11-30 6:25:48 PM|| 2004-11-30 6:25:48 PM|| Front Page Top

#14 10-12,000 feet minimum for B52's...

I'm just sayin'

Posted by mojo 2004-11-30 7:07:48 PM|| 2004-11-30 7:07:48 PM|| Front Page Top

#15 10-12,000'...I see an expansion in their future...and hey! Any news on H1, H3, et al in the Western Iraq desert...seems like just this last year they were an Iraqi air base...hmmmm

Posted by Frank G 2004-11-30 7:19:57 PM|| 2004-11-30 7:19:57 PM|| Front Page Top

#16 Small base. Probably just a base from which the Afghan National Army can do border patrol to halt the mad mullah stampede when the cruise missiles start raining down.

Posted by Tom 2004-11-30 7:25:40 PM|| 2004-11-30 7:25:40 PM|| Front Page Top

#17 Wasn't H-1 or one of those H-s a base for special ops, like the Aussies, and possibly US forces? It was vewwy vewwy quiet out there newswise, while we were a-rollin' up to Baghdad.

Posted by Alaska Paul 2004-11-30 7:27:21 PM|| 2004-11-30 7:27:21 PM|| Front Page Top

#18 yep - captured first thing

Posted by Frank G 2004-11-30 7:46:51 PM|| 2004-11-30 7:46:51 PM|| Front Page Top

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