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In reply to the discussion: Horses and Bayonets Meme Collection [View all]Populist_Prole
(5,364 posts)3. We only have a couple of hundred heavy bombers now too, compared to thousands earlier
The capabilities of them improved, the tactics changed, and the other two points of the "triad" are super formidable too. Hell if it was 1916 and had a choice, I'd take 25 percent of our present naval fleet over twice numbers the US fleet then, and know I would absolutely dominate the battle, and then some. It's a goddmaned no-brainer!
Either Mitt's truly an idiot, or he failed at a sleight of hand by thinking everybody else is.
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We only have a couple of hundred heavy bombers now too, compared to thousands earlier
Populist_Prole
Oct 2012
#3
Mitt is using spin handed to him by his Neocon advisers. He doesn't have a clue about anything....
Spitfire of ATJ
Oct 2012
#5
That arrogance is why the Republican Party doesn't want him to be President....
Spitfire of ATJ
Oct 2012
#21