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2008-03-30 China-Japan-Koreas

Japan completes missile defence system deployment

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Posted by Fred 2008-03-30 00:00|| || Front Page|| [9 views ] Top

#1 Insert dancing Combined Fleet Video here.

Posted by Zebulon Angavick7428">Zebulon Angavick7428 2008-03-30 12:54|| 2008-03-30 12:54|| Front Page Top

#2 The fools! I have it on reliable authority that "Star Wars" is impossible!

/the usual leftards

Posted by Excalibur 2008-03-30 14:07|| 2008-03-30 14:07|| Front Page Top

#3 Excal, it's a useful argument: when a Leftie tells me that a strategic missile defense is impossible, I ask why, if that's true, the Japanese are buying the PAC3 system and setting it up to defend their own country.

The Lefties usually don't have a straight answer.

Posted by Steve White">Steve White 2008-03-30 14:30|| 2008-03-30 14:30|| Front Page Top

#4 as the pacifist nation beefs up its military capability

Pacifist through superior firepower?

Posted by trailing wife ">trailing wife 2008-03-30 14:33|| 2008-03-30 14:33|| Front Page Top

#5 Sounds good to me TW, that's Heinlein's statement,
"An armed society, is a POLITE society".

Posted by Redneck Jim">Redneck Jim 2008-03-30 16:00|| 2008-03-30 16:00|| Front Page Top

#6 I still say we need to sell the Kitty Hawk and a couple of squadrons of A-6s, EA-6bs, and F/A-18s to Japan, just for the spittle-spewing that would greet the news in NKor and China. The Japanese would have a half-dozen super-carriers and indigenous aircraft within five years. Say it's to defend the main islands and Okinawa from Chinese intervention, and it remains within the "self-defense" role Japan has saddled itself with.

Posted by Old Patriot">Old Patriot 2008-03-30 16:34|| 2008-03-30 16:34|| Front Page Top

#7 Do you think they'd buy them OP?

Posted by lotp 2008-03-30 16:39|| 2008-03-30 16:39|| Front Page Top

#8 CHIN MIL FORUM/WAFF.com > REUTERS - CLINTON SAYS CHINA [$$$ investment-dollar holdings] THREATENS US NATIONAL SECURITY. Former Chin General claims China will no lnger buy US debt + will dump dollars iff sends USN Carrier fleet agz China vv TAIWAN. ALso, Article infers Chin may choose to treat any US intervention in TIBET CRISIS = same as for any TAIWAN CRISIS as per above-described economic retaliation???

Posted by JosephMendiola 2008-03-30 19:37|| 2008-03-30 19:37|| Front Page Top

#9 FLASH FLASH > CHINNEESE CENTRL BANK UNHAPPY WITH DOLLAH, buys many EUROS DESROYS ECONOMY IN SPERIMENT gone RONG

Posted by Zebulon Angavick7428">Zebulon Angavick7428 2008-03-30 22:49|| 2008-03-30 22:49|| Front Page Top