Comments on: Russian Bomber Buzzes U.S. Ship

U.S. Fighter Jets Intercept 2 Of Moscow's Bombers In Western Pacific

[ici2i]

"we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex... Only an alert and knowledgeable citizenry can compel the proper meshing of the huge industrial and military machinery of defense with our peaceful methods and goals, so that security and liberty may prosper together."
President Eisenhower

Republicans: one of your own and one of the best!! but you go keep following the fool and I''ll never understand why...blind patriotism I suppose (and anti-abortion, Christian values, and other BS reasons)

[ici2i]

President Dwight D. Eisenhower

Cowards don''''t deserve freedom and liberty.

Posted by Dronemonk

I also posted a quote or two from Ike but not enough folks listen. To some, the war drums are beating and they like the ego of being the super power. I Like Ike and I was just a kid when he was president. Too bad he wasn''t in the big house today. I''m no more impressed with the village idiot we have now than any of the candidates.....any one of them could lead us to extinction but at least the Dems are less trigger happy and not as likely to fall into the holy war.

[borris007-2009]

Dronemonk---Excellent post... seems as though ignorance is bliss these days in America... Some people still haven%u2019t figured out that Bush, Cheney and like minded individuals for the true cowards they are... How many times did Cheney manage to slip the draft? Do the research America!! The Politician''s were banking on Glory from the blood and guts of US Soldiers.

[bizzzz-2009]

I heard Bush ordered the Russian bombers to fly over the Nimitz to cause an international crisis. I''m just telling you what I heard.

[gwagener]

A suspicious person might think this was leaked because it might be an issue that could favor one candiate over another in the presidential race.

[dronemonk]

Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and not clothed. This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children... This is not a way of life in any true sense. Under the cloud of threatening war, it is humanity hanging from a cross of iron.
~President Dwight D. Eisenhower

When our wastrel republic, thanks to a boot licking government that spends like drunken sailors, sputters to a halt, I''m gonna laugh at all the cowards who rejoiced when the government inspired them....with fear.

Cowards don''t deserve freedom and liberty.

[icebreaker24]

I am more disturbed by the leaking of secret matter to the press than I am of the flyover itself. We can take care of physical threats, but finding moles who release information to the press is much harder.

[rfeliciano1]

No disrespect to the hardworking people of Russia however, the US has to keep a close eye on certain countries who we deem "our" friends. I wouldn''t trust that government for a second.....Arrogant and stubborn.

[zlicdic]

Take a look at the sentence..''an unihabited island south of Tokyo." That should tell you about all you need to know that this article is cleary intended to be inflamatory. It was obviously a recon. flight and nothing more. If the Russians had any intention of "bombing" the Nimitz do you think for a moment we would have let them get so close?

[fastfredy1]

The device offically designated RDS-220, known to its designers as Big Ivan, and nicknamed in the west Tsar Bomba (and referred to as the Big Bomb by Sakharov in his Memoirs [Sakharov 1990]) was the largest nuclear weapon ever constructed or detonated. This three stage weapon was actually a 100 megaton bomb design, but the uranium fusion stage tamper of the tertiary (and possibly the secondary) stage(s) was replaced by one(s) made of lead. This reduced the yield by 50% by eliminating the fast fissioning of the uranium tamper by the fusion neutrons, and eliminated 97% of the fallout (1.5 megatons of fission, instead of about 51.5 Mt), yet still proved the full yield design. The result was the "cleanest" weapon ever tested with 97% of the energy coming from fusion reactions. The effect of this bomb at full yield on global fallout would have been tremendous. It would have increased the world''s total fission fallout since the invention of the atomic bomb by 25%.