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hatrack (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-10-07 10:42 PM Original message |
As Global Powers Prepare To Carve Up The Arctic, US Doesn't Even Have Enough Icebreakers |
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NV Whino (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-10-07 10:45 PM Response to Original message |
1. Umm, just a thought here, but |
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hatrack (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-10-07 10:47 PM Response to Reply #1 |
2. Yeah, but eight months out of twelve, you still need a specialized ship |
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bullimiami (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-10-07 10:55 PM Response to Reply #1 |
3. thats the brilliant bush strategy pushing global warming. always 2 steps ahead. |
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Bitwit1234 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-10-07 11:25 PM Response to Original message |
4. The have them on the Great Lakes. |
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phantom power (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-11-07 09:41 AM Response to Original message |
5. Curses! We're reduced to resource imperialism between the arctic and antarctic circles! |
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kestrel91316 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-11-07 11:39 AM Response to Original message |
6. Not to worry. Bush is privatizing the Coast Guard and icebreaking, too, |
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NV Whino (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-11-07 12:13 PM Response to Reply #6 |
7. Naw, he's going to outsource both. |
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n2doc (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-11-07 12:33 PM Response to Original message |
8. When's the Blackwater icebreaker fleet showing up? n/t |
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jpak (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-11-07 01:18 PM Response to Reply #8 |
11. The Russians beat 'em to it |
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pitohui (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-11-07 12:45 PM Response to Original message |
9. i for one welcome our canadian overlords EOM |
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eppur_se_muova (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-11-07 01:04 PM Response to Original message |
10. Let me guess ... we sent our icebreakers to Iraq ? ... |
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tom_paine (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-11-07 02:57 PM Response to Original message |
12. When we drill out that last 25% of the world's oil & gas underneath the Arctic |
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