The Bear Growls

military.com ^ | January 29, 2007 | Peter Brookes

[doc1019]

Thought this was a Super bowl thread … (my bad) … Go Bears.

[Thunder90]

The USSR never wants to die...

[Ode To Ted Kennedys Liver]

Who gives monkey balls about what Russia thinks of us.

[Gondring]

Russia is now the world's biggest arms merchant to the developing world. In some cases, these sales seriously undermine American interests and security - and threaten U.S. forces.

And they haven't learned from Chechnya that you can't appease militant Muslims.

[ClearCase_guy]

A missile shield is a defensive effort. Any country that opposes our efforts to defend ourselves and our allies is a country that we really NEED to defend ourselves against. Full speed ahead!

[unkus]

You are exactly right.

[Thunder90]

Russia/Soviet/Coldwar2 PING!!!

To be added or removed from this list, please FReepmail me!!!

[libs_kma]

The Bear growls?

Sounds like the Bear is whining.

[figgers3036]

Bingo.

[Tanniker Smith]

Thought this was a Super bowl thread … (my bad) … Go Bears.

Yeah, me, too. Don't matter, though. Colts are taking them down anyways.

[rmlew]

We should have put the bear down in 92.

[doc1019]

The “Bear” lost it’s testicles under the Reagan administration and has been trying to grow them back to this day.

[claptrap]

We need to Announce a Whole New Generation In Exotic
SPACE BASED On Time Nuke Delivery Systems and Space Based
Proton Laser Cannons which can evaporate accurately
small to large offensive sections of the planet!

[CodeMasterPhilzar]

Washington wants to put an X-band radar in the Czech Republic and 10 interceptor missile launchers in Poland; these would add to existing U.S. missile-defense sites in California and Alaska.

...

But Russian Defense Minister Sergei Ivanov scoffed at the idea. His thinking: Neither North Korean nor Iranian missiles can reach Europe right now, so "against whom is this missile-defense system being made?"

It's simple - by the time we need them, it'll be too late to think about deploying them. When it comes to defense, you want to be out in front of the threat - ready to counter it before it develops. North Korea, Iran, and others continue to develop missile and warhead technology.

Also, who is he kidding? 10 interceptors against Russia's thousands of short, medium, intermediate, and intercontinental range missiles? In an all out attack, Russia would lose more missiles to poor quality control and maintenance than they would to a battery of 10 interceptors... He's blowing smoke and posturing. 10 interceptors are no strategic deterrent against Russia, heck, even 100 wouldn't be.

[adam_smith_76]

Just to get this straight, we are deploying the defensive missile shield that Reagan started and the liberals said (hoped) would never work? Is this part of the program they derisively called "Star Wars" as if to make it sound like a fantasy? I think this is also the program that the liberals scoffed at when Pres. Bush said we'd keep funding it.

Last I heard, it's working quite well, although it may take a couple shots to hit an incoming missile.

[doc1019]

Bear me out … ain’t gona happen!

As a die hard Bears fan … I wish them luck.

As a football fan … gona’ be one heck of a game.

Best of luck to both teams … will be a great game regardless who wins.

[redgolum]

How would the US feel if Russia put a missile defense site in Canada?

But then, they seem to be awful quick to arm our adversaries.

[doc1019]

Amazing that we can have a discussion about two different things (football, nuclear holocaust) and still keep them separate.

[doc1019]

Cuba comes to mind.