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brooklynite (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-15-07 04:19 PM Original message |
Silly String Finally On Its Way to Iraq (seriously...) |
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yellowcanine (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-15-07 04:25 PM Response to Original message |
1. Hmm, It sounds like an ingenious tactic. I would not denigrate it. |
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brooklynite (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-15-07 04:27 PM Response to Original message |
2. I don't denigrate the tactic... |
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gateley (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-15-07 04:39 PM Response to Original message |
3. That could work! While they're waiting for the reinforced Humvees, they need |
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lapfog_1 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-15-07 04:41 PM Response to Original message |
4. Would have been much more useful a few years ago |
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flyingfysh (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-15-07 04:55 PM Response to Original message |
5. they've been using Silly String there for a long time |
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rcsl1998 (501 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-15-07 05:31 PM Response to Reply #5 |
7. I Heard Of This Years Ago Also... |
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Up2Late (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-15-07 09:29 PM Response to Reply #7 |
17. The USAToday article says they want 17,770 of them at more than $1Million each! |
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ohio2007 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-15-07 05:41 PM Response to Reply #5 |
8. Same here on the trip wire low tech detector |
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ProudDad (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-15-07 06:53 PM Response to Reply #8 |
13. Easy solution |
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ohio2007 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-15-07 09:25 PM Response to Reply #13 |
16. right , even better yet |
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liberal N proud (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-15-07 05:30 PM Response to Original message |
6. I heard about this several months ago |
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trusty elf (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-15-07 05:42 PM Response to Original message |
9. Another stunning example of bushevic incompetence. |
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Jim Lane (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-15-07 05:59 PM Response to Original message |
10. If Silly String is militarily useful, the Pentagon should be supplying it, not leaving it civilians |
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LisaM (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-15-07 06:03 PM Response to Reply #10 |
11. If the Pentagon was buying it, it would blow the military budget |
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maddogesq (915 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-15-07 06:52 PM Response to Reply #11 |
12. But it;s mil spec Silly String, dammit. :) NT |
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ProudDad (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-15-07 06:54 PM Response to Reply #12 |
14. Yep, $60,000 per can and $600,000 to ship (n/t) |
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Up2Late (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-15-07 09:13 PM Response to Original message |
15. Gosh, the Pentagon wouldn't want to ship something the ground troops actually need!!! |
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