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Old 02-11-2012, 19:38   #1
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USS Gabrielle Giffords

According to todays paper on Friday at the Pentagon The Secy. of the Navy unvailed an artists rendering of the USS Gabrielle Giffords. I am sorry that some unbalanced piece of shit tried to kill her and suceeded in killing several others in Arizona. But what the hell has she ever done to distinguish herself in such a fashion to get a U.S Navy ship named in her honor? Thousands have died in our defense wearing the uniform of this country during our war on terror, would not naming the ship after one of these men or women been more appropriate? Excuse while I go vomit again.
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Old 02-11-2012, 20:18   #2
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Old 02-11-2012, 20:32   #3
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I thought that's what the SEALs were being "used" for ???

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Old 02-11-2012, 21:35   #4
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I thought that's what the SEALs were being "used" for ???

No, I think that is called target manufacturing.
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Old 02-11-2012, 21:42   #5
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No, I think that is called target manufacturing.
Ahhhhhh ..... Gotchya.
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For contrast.

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For anyone interested in the Navy's reasoning...

http://www.navy.mil/search/display.asp?story_id=65287

And so it goes...

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Feel sorry for what happened to her but would it have been more appropriate for the ship to have been named after the people who died in the assassination attempt?
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For anyone interested in the Navy's reasoning...

http://www.navy.mil/search/display.asp?story_id=65287

And so it goes...

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Old 02-11-2012, 23:16   #11
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This is pretty luke warm to me. It strikes as pandering.
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Old 02-12-2012, 00:00   #12
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Feel sorry for what happened to her but would it have been more appropriate for the ship to have been named after the people who died in the assassination attempt?

Seriously - Do you know the names of those killed?

Gabe Zimmerman, John Roll, Christina-Taylor Green. Those are the three I could find.

Do you know the others? Can you find the names and who they are?
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Old 02-12-2012, 07:12   #13
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How some will pander for defense bucks. The Navy seems to be going all out with this and the movie. I about fell over reading that ADM McRaven was a journalism major.
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In a world that awards Nobel Prizes to the likes of "Zero" you question the rationale behind this?
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Old 02-12-2012, 08:41   #15
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In a world that awards Nobel Prizes to the likes of "Zero" you question the rationale behind this?
I would hope that our military leadership would have a better standard than the Nobel committee. But, alas.....
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