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To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (376872)	4/7/2008 5:39:23 PM
From: combjelly	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1576893

"Both you and Chris are hanging onto the "nuance" that 75 cruise missiles isn't "a few." " So much for conservatives pretending to understand military issues. It isn't a few. It likely represented a significant fraction of the inventory. "Never mind the fact that firing any number of cruise missiles is as easy as walking off a cliff." Talk about Fantasyland. You can't fire what you don't have. We greatly depleted our inventory during Gulf War I. We fired a total of 288. It isn't like these things are regularly rolling off the assembly line. They built a bunch in the 1980s. Then they stopped. I assume they built some between Gulf War I and Afghanistan, but I don't know if they did. At $600k a pop, they don't stack them like cord wood. Look, I know you don't mind proving you are totally disconnected from reality. I can't help you there. But don't expect me to back you in this. "That's what you and Chris consider to be a substantial action against terrorism?" It was over 37 metric tons of high explosives. It would have been considered a major bombing mission with just dumb, iron bombs. Not the most sophisticated precision guided munition in our inventory. What on Earth would you have considered a substantial action, then?