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To: Garden Rose who wrote (262425)	4/23/2008 8:31:41 PM
From: bentway	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

Iran is a country with technical expertise. I'm sure they're making their own sunburn missiles by now. fas.org Supporting Israel is not in our national interest. What is the benefit for the American people? What are the costs?

To: Garden Rose who wrote (262425)	4/23/2008 8:47:34 PM
From: TimF	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 281500

OK it can be used for land strikes. Its still too short of range to hit Israel. Range 120 km en.wikipedia.org Range 120 km en.wikipedia.org Range: 180 km en.wikipedia.org SS-N-22 Range: 90.00 km Improved version with a range of 160km missilethreat.com They have less than 1/10th of the needed range. And the 301 and 802 are subsonic. The 802 is low flying and agile, and thus not the easiest target, but it isn't the mach 2+ weapons everyone was making a big issue of before. And even if they where supersonic, even harder to shoot down, and had the range to reach Israel, several dozen cruise missiles aren't going to destroy or defeat the state of Israel. As for the patrol boats (do Boghammers even qualify as "patrol boats?), they did back off from the US navy ships. But even if they had not, it wouldn't have amounted to "the US wimps out when the itty bitty Iranian boats challenge them in the Persian Gulf". "The Iranians kept on coming, closing to a distance of 200 meters - about two football fields. Supposedly, our Navy was ready to open fire but didn't shoot because the Iranians turned away at the moment the order was given." nypost.com