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August 27, 2005
Politics smolitics......
I must be getting really really old or cynical or something. The Pentagon's list of military closures has been reviewed and acted on by a Federal panel which of course has overruled the Pentagon on several closures. Whew...thank goodness!
Yeah yeah sure sure whatever.........rejoice New England..rejoice South Dakota! Actually having spent quite a few months watching the submarines traversing the Thames River in Connecticut last year, I was thrilled to hear the sub base in Groton would be spared closure. On second or third reflection on the issue I thought it was all rather political on the Pentagon's part. Duh, silly me! It takes a while for me to catch on but I do...of course the Pentagon is going to ask for more closures than it really wants...of course the Pentagon is going to ask for closure of all the remaining facilities in New England ..Of course the Pentagon is going to garner opposition from any and all closures. So the politically correct thing to do is ask for the absurd, be denied and have the citizens be thrilled with half the bases in New England closed instead of all of them. wow, are we all lucky we were spared..huh?
Nope, no siree, Don (Rumsfeld) ya just can't pull the wool over my eyes..I'm wise to you! ..eventually.......
Posted by frani at August 27, 2005 10:54 AM
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Politics, smoltics is right! How else do you explain a Va Beach Navy Master Jet base being added in midstream to the closure list by BRAC; followed by a last minute appearnce before BRAC by brother Jeb suggesting that a FL base that was closed 5 years ago be reopened and the base relocated to this high air traffic area? BRAC's response is to give Va Beach 6 months to buy 1800 homes and bussiness and then spend 15 million a year over the next 10 years to buy up property in surrounding areas. Could it be that the brothers Bush have worked out a payback to Florida for votes.....
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at August 28, 2005 10:34 AM
rumors were running around that the bases that were being closed were in democratic stronghold.
DA
Posted by: DA at August 30, 2005 06:16 PM
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