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question everything Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-07-08 04:27 PM
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Senators Edwards and Obama, quick, point to the Strait of Hormuz
on the map.

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/08/washington/08military.html?_r=1&ref=world&oref=slogin

In a brief confrontation in the strategically important Strait of Hormuz, five armed Iranian fast boats took aggressive actions on Sunday around three United States Navy warships in international waters, according to a Pentagon spokesman, who called the moves “reckless and dangerous.”

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KennedyGuy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-07-08 04:28 PM
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1. Now, thats not fair..
map reading is hard..
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OneGrassRoot Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-07-08 04:29 PM
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2. It is according to Miss South Carolina. lol n/t
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Perky Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-07-08 04:33 PM
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3. Too easy for any of the three.
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FogerRox Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-07-08 05:22 PM
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4. 50 ft speedboats dont screw around with 500 ft Frigates or even larger cruisers
Ever see a Mack truck hit a bicycle, I thikn you get the idea.
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Occam Bandage Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-07-08 05:23 PM
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5. Is that supposed to be hard to do?
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question everything Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-08-08 04:29 PM
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6. Not for Biden, Richardson, Dodd or Clinton
I don't know about these two.

And if anyone think that instability is not going to be important during the rest of the year - this person is going to be surprised - and such ignorance can cost us the White House.
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