[cookcounty]

"Asked to comment on the engagement by Iraqi soldiers, Congressman John Murtha was heard to say "It's a quagmire, we can't win, and the Iraqi soldiers should be redeployed to Okinawa!"

Okinawa, Japan.

And nobaody in the MSM has taken on how utterly demented and batbrained this concept is.

- To re-engage in Iraq from Okinawa by air, you would have to fly 6,000 miles, over the heart of China, over Tajikistan, over Iran. If you fly around these countries, it is further from Okinawa to Iraq than it is from McGuire AFB in New Jersey to Iraq.

By sea, you have go south through the pirate and spy-ridden waters of the Malacca Strait, a distance of some 9,000 sea miles from Okinawa to Basra, doable in about thirteen days.

And this doesn't even touch the issue with the Japanese of housing 130,000 extra troops on their soil "to be able to rapidly react to the situation in Iraq."

Murtha's a moron, couldn't pass an 8th-grade geography class. And his MSM sheep are even worse.

[Ax]

The last time I was on Okinawa, it still belonged to us. Since we returned the island to the Japanese, relations have really gone downhill. They would love to see all of us out of there. If we were going to unsurge, why not go the few extra hours to Guam, which we own?