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2007-02-19 China-Japan-Koreas

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Posted by ryuge 2007-02-19 01:03|| || Front Page|| [7 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Cheney is also scheduled to visit Australia and the tiny U.S. island of Guam.

Here you go, Joe - a chance to meet VP Cheney! Go for it. Tell HIM what you think.

Posted by Old Patriot">Old Patriot 2007-02-19 14:07|| http://oldpatriot.blogspot.com/]">[http://oldpatriot.blogspot.com/] 2007-02-19 14:07|| Front Page Top

#2 Any place that can hold our JosephMendiola is bigger than it looks. But JosephM dear, we'd very much like a report after your dinner with the Vice President - of those bits you can tell, anyway. (After all, True German Ally mentioned Rantburg to then-Secretary of Defense Rumsfeld when they crossed paths in Germany, and I'm sure JosephM's connections are at least as good).

Posted by trailing wife 2007-02-19 14:32|| 2007-02-19 14:32|| Front Page Top

#3 Not just Vice President Cheney, apparently. link
US to stage world's largest anti-terrorism exercise on Guam
Exercise TopOff4 is part of a series of large-scale manoeuvres established to strengthen the United States’ ability to respond to terrorist attacks involving weapons of mass destruction. US Coast Guard commander in Guam, William Marhoffer, said the TopOff4 exercise would be bigger than last year's Valiant Shield war games, in which the US mobilised 30 ships, 280 aircraft and 22,000 military personnel.

"It will be bigger in some ways. Valiant Shield was a military exercise. It was a show of force. It was the first time we had three carrier strike groups in combined operations in the Pacific since the Vietnam War. Top Officials (TopOff4) is a domestic counter-terrorism exercise ... it involves the intelligence communities, the Department of Homeland Security, the FBI, the Department of Defense, the US Coast Guard."

Guam is home to one of the largest US military naval bases in the region and 8,000 marines will soon be relocated there from Japan. The island, with a population of 170,000, is banking on the US military buildup to bail it out of its economic woes. The US and Japan are spending 15 billion dollars on the relocation of the marines from Japan, which is expected to further boost Washington's military strength in the Asia-Pacific.

Posted by trailing wife 2007-02-19 15:39|| 2007-02-19 15:39|| Front Page Top

#4 The island, with a population of 170,000, and Joe!

Posted by Shipman 2007-02-19 17:19|| 2007-02-19 17:19|| Front Page Top

#5 Maybe Joe can give us a play-by-play.

Posted by Deacon Blues">Deacon Blues 2007-02-19 18:55|| 2007-02-19 18:55|| Front Page Top

#6 I'm sure JosephM would never break opsec or a confidence, but he occasionally has mentioned interesting (and to me, comforting) tidbits in the past.

Posted by trailing wife 2007-02-19 19:27|| 2007-02-19 19:27|| Front Page Top

#7 I always wondered whether JM was an entry in a Turing Test competition.

TW, it looks like I won't be working in Tyson's after all.

Posted by Eric Jablow">Eric Jablow 2007-02-19 23:20|| 2007-02-19 23:20|| Front Page Top

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