Retired USS Iowa Headed Inland After San Francisco's Antiwar Rejection

Associated Press ^ | Aug 20, 2005 | Brian Skoloff

[Jeff Head]

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[Texas_Conservative2]

LOL

it's pretty funny that the democratic party has moved even further left than FEINSTEIN !!

ROFL !

I wonder how long it will be before she is speaking at the Republican convention blasting her party !


ROFL !

[COEXERJ145]

Iowa sitting in Suisun Bay.

[Dad yer funny]

yup , you nailed it,post #4 , thanks FreedomPoster , its like leftie parents , overly permissive with their children's upbringing , aren't given even simple respect from their children

[Prophet in the wilderness]

That is WAY COOL.
I got to get me one of these.

[Diana in Wisconsin]

Hey, Feinstein! Give Wisconsin 3 Million and you can permanently dock it somewhere along Lake Michigan. We in the "Flyover States" have a respect and appreciation for our military history.

San Fran doesn't DESERVE a ship that grand docked on her shores!

[Publius6961]

That would make it the third highest tourest attraction in Stockton, to drugs and prostitution.

What a totally asinine statement. You must visit parts of town I haven't yet.
I've only lived in Stockton 7 years.

[adorno]

SF Board of Supervisors are a bunch of America-hating socialists. What a joke.

I think it's time for the rest of the rest of the U.S. to hold a plebiscite regarding the status of San Francisco. It needs to be voted off from the rest of the U.S. and declared an enemy of America. San Franciscoo is no more American than...China?

[tet68]

"This isn't the San Francisco that I've known and loved and grew up in and was born in," Feinstein said.

You have made it what it is today, Diane.

[Jet Jaguar]

Very cool pics! Thanks.

[denydenydeny]

"If I was going to commit any kind of money in recognition of war, then it should be toward peace, given what our war is in Iraq right now," Supervisor Ross Mirkarimi said.

Self-righteous prig. The AIDS virus that was spread--peacefully, of course--in your bathhouses has already killed more people than the wars in Korea, Vietnam, and Iraq put together.

[ATOMIC_PUNK]

But city supervisors voted 8-3 last month to oppose taking in the ship, citing local opposition to the Iraq war and the military's stance on gays, among other things.

BULLSHIT !

[bigsigh]

I worked in Stockton until 1996. So if they've ungone a major redevelopment of the downtown, eastside and south side, I apologize. Perhaps you can give us an up-to-date list of all the tourist attractions which are more popular.

[Alamo-Girl]

Thanks for the ping!

[Prophet in the wilderness]

Better yet, close any military bases , Navy bases, and withdraw any military from San Francisco, withdraw any military funding that goes to S.F. and let them fend for themselves economically, and militarily, let them be sitting ducks.

[ken5050]

With nothing against the good people of Stockton, but why didn't the Intrepid Museum in NYC grab the Iowa?

[Skooz]

San Franthithco is unworthy of this great battleship.

[Wombat101]

Heck, let's get it back here to NY -- It would be wonderful to have the Iowa docked next to the Intrepid. Besides, Iowa was built in the Brooklyn Navy Yard. It would be a homecoming.

[Cvengr]

Psst,..they already did that.

[Wolfstar]

I saw Iowa's sister ship, the USS Missouri while she was in Los Angeles harbor being prepared for her transfer to Hawaii for permanent retirement as a museum near the USS Arizona in Pearl Harbor. Although they are warships, they are beautiful examples of the shipbuilders art. Their slender, graceful bows, and long, low-slung silhouette make them quite beautiful.

About time Feinstein woke up and realized that San Francisco has become the bowels of the nation. Bitter Marxist ideology will do that to a person, a city, a political party and, as the Soviet Union finally learned, to an entire people if left unchecked.