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Peter von Nostrand		2012-06-14 09:52:44 PM

I'm for one am glad that the Department of Defense has just now started making contingency plans for all kinds of scenarios. Can't believe they didn't think of that before

cman		2012-06-14 09:54:37 PM

CHANGE WE CAN BELIEVE IN

GAT_00		2012-06-14 10:09:12 PM

Peter von Nostrand: I'm for one am glad that the Department of Defense has just now started making contingency plans for all kinds of scenarios. Can't believe they didn't think of that before

I doubt it. It's a press release to add leverage against Russia. The plans existed before and are updated constantly to current information.

dave1y		2012-06-14 10:21:39 PM

GAT_00: Peter von Nostrand: I'm for one am glad that the Department of Defense has just now started making contingency plans for all kinds of scenarios. Can't believe they didn't think of that before

I doubt it. It's a press release to add leverage against Russia. The plans existed before and are updated constantly to current information.

Turning on sarcasm detector...annnnd....wait for it........NOW

dave1y		2012-06-14 10:23:31 PM

Oh, and the US has 3 contingency plans for invading every country in the world.

Peter von Nostrand		2012-06-14 10:27:10 PM

dave1y: GAT_00: Peter von Nostrand: I'm for one am glad that the Department of Defense has just now started making contingency plans for all kinds of scenarios. Can't believe they didn't think of that before

I doubt it. It's a press release to add leverage against Russia. The plans existed before and are updated constantly to current information.

Turning on sarcasm detector...annnnd....wait for it........NOW

This one goes to 11

djkutch		2012-06-14 10:29:14 PM

cman: CHANGE WE CAN BELIEVE IN

War is good for the economy. WTF is wrong with you?

GAT_00		2012-06-14 10:33:58 PM

vygramul		2012-06-14 10:34:09 PM

cman: CHANGE WE CAN BELIEVE IN

www.bitlogic.com

MaudlinMutantMollusk		2012-06-14 10:51:09 PM

dave1y: Oh, and the US has 3 contingency plans for invading every country in the world.

7 for invading the US

dave1y		2012-06-14 10:58:14 PM

MaudlinMutantMollusk: dave1y: Oh, and the US has 3 contingency plans for invading every country in the world.

7 for invading the US

No, it's 6. They had to scratch the one that had the 10th Mountain Division taking DC because of the goddam traffic on I-95. It's like a natural defensive barrier. The 82nd has to fly in.

MaudlinMutantMollusk		2012-06-14 10:59:37 PM

dave1y: MaudlinMutantMollusk: dave1y: Oh, and the US has 3 contingency plans for invading every country in the world.

7 for invading the US

No, it's 6. They had to scratch the one that had the 10th Mountain Division taking DC because of the goddam traffic on I-95. It's like a natural defensive barrier. The 82nd has to fly in.

Ah... I'll update my list

/thanks!

Marcus Aurelius		2012-06-14 11:11:25 PM

Thank good Christ that the steep price of Sesame Tahini will be inflicted upon these infidels in short order cooks.

Marcus Aurelius		2012-06-14 11:16:07 PM

U.S. military completes planning for Syria

I sure hope that plan includes shoving a few divisions of Israeli armored cavalry up their oversized nostrils.

Triumph		2012-06-14 11:34:13 PM

Marcus Aurelius: I sure hope that plan includes shoving a few divisions of Israeli armored cavalry up their oversized nostrils.

Well, over the weekend, Israel signaled that it had shifted policy and is ready and willing to take out Assad, so that seems likely.

/and ominous

NewportBarGuy		2012-06-14 11:43:38 PM

dave1y		2012-06-15 12:12:51 AM

NewportBarGuy: I thought The Secret Army of Northern Virginia had requested first crack at D.C.?

Oh, god. They ask for crap like that all the time. First it was 'take Kentucky because that's what Daniel Boone would have done'.. Then they wanted to go to Miami. My source has it that they have to man the bunker at the Greenbrier just so they won't hurt themselves.

Gyrfalcon		2012-06-15 01:14:09 AM

dave1y: Oh, and the US has 3 contingency plans for invading every country in the world.

They need three plans to invade Antarctica?!?

universebetween		2012-06-15 01:18:13 AM

do it exactly like libya. just hand the rebels weapons and watch from a nearby mountain or spyplane

Ryker's Peninsula		2012-06-15 01:20:53 AM

dave1y: Oh, and the US has 3 contingency plans for invading every country in the world.

The US3 contingency plan is the diddi-diddi bop.

xaveth		2012-06-15 01:21:38 AM

The Nobel Peace Prize: Definitely NOT racist.

DrPainMD		2012-06-15 01:25:23 AM

dave1y: Oh, and the US has 3 contingency plans for invading every country in the world.

And yet, Americans still don't see the parallels between the US and Nazi Germany.

hint: if you're fighting a war, and your national sovereignty hasn't been challenged, you are the aggressor; you are the bad guy.

steerforth		2012-06-15 01:26:33 AM

Gyrfalcon: dave1y: Oh, and the US has 3 contingency plans for invading every country in the world.

They need three plans to invade Antarctica?!?

Yeah, and what's the plan for Australia? Offer us all a beer, three times over?

fusillade762		2012-06-15 01:28:10 AM

DrPainMD: dave1y: Oh, and the US has 3 contingency plans for invading every country in the world.

And yet, Americans still don't see the parallels between the US and Nazi Germany.

hint: if you're fighting a war, and your national sovereignty hasn't been challenged, you are the aggressor; you are the bad guy.

Was our sovereignty threatened during WWII?

MaudlinMutantMollusk		2012-06-15 01:29:27 AM

Gyrfalcon: dave1y: Oh, and the US has 3 contingency plans for invading every country in the world.

They need three plans to invade Antarctica?!?

You laugh now

/but you just wait until the full fury of the First Armored Penguin Division, AKA The Fighting Adélies is unleashed against the...

/wait a minute...

Piestar		2012-06-15 01:36:48 AM

danielscissorhands		2012-06-15 01:42:08 AM

Gosling		2012-06-15 01:42:52 AM

And just in time for all the Syrian civilians to be dead when they get there.

zamboni		2012-06-15 01:43:25 AM

Eh... big deal. The list of scenarios looks pretty harmless.

U.S. First Strike
U.S.S.R. First Strike
NATO / Warsaw Pact
Far East Strategy
U.S. / U.S.S.R. escalation
Middle East War
U.S.S.R. / China Attack
India / Pakistan War
Mediterranean War
Hong Kong Variant
SEATO Decapitating
Cuban Provocation
Inadvertent
Atlantic Heavy
Cuban Paramilitary
Nicaraguan Pre-emptive
Pacific Territorial
Burmese Theaterwide
Turkish Decoy
Argentina Escalation
Iceland Maximum
Arabian Theaterwide
U.S. Subversion
Australian Maneuver
Sudan Surprise
NATO Territorial
Zaire Alliance
Iceland Incident
English Escalation
Zaire Screen
Middle East Heavy
Mexican Takeover
Chad Alert
Saudi Maneuver
African Territorial
Ethiopian Calamity
Canadian (obstructed)
Turkish Heavy
NATO Incursion
U.S. Defense
Cambodian Heavy
Warsaw Pact Medium
Arctic Minimal
Mexican Domestic
Taiwanese Theaterwide
Pacific Maneuver
Portugal Revolution
Albanian Decoy
Palestinian Local
Moroccan Minimal
Czech Option
French Alliance
Arabian Clandestine
Gabon Rebellion
Northern Maximum
SEATO Takeover
Hawaiian Escalation
Iranian Maneuver
NATO Containment
Swiss Incident
Cuba Minimal
Iceland Escalation
Vietnamese Retaliation
Syrian Provocation
Libyan Local
Gabon Takeover
Romanian War
Middle East Offensive
Denmark Massive
Chile Confrontation
South African Subversion
U.S.S.R. Alert
Nicaraguan Thrust
Greenland Domestic
Iceland Heavy
Kenya Option
Pacific Defense
Uganda Maximum
Thai Subversion
Romanian Strike
Pakistan Sovereignty
Afghan Misdirection
Thai Variation
Northern Territorial
Polish Paramilitary
South African Offensive
Panama Misdirection
Scandinavian Domestic
Jordan Pre-emptive
English Thrust
Burmese Manuever
Spain Counter
Arabian Offensive
Chad Interdiction
Taiwan Misdirection
Bangladesh Theaterwide
Ethiopian Local
Italian Takeover
Vietnamese Incident
English Pre-emptive
Denmark Alternate
Thai Confrontation
Taiwan Surprise
Brazilian Strike
Venezuela Sudden
Malaysian Alert
Israel Discretionary
Libyan Action
Palestinian Tactical
NATO Alternate
Cyprus Maneuver
Egypt Misdirection
Bangladesh Thrust
Kenya Defense
Bangladesh Containment
Vietnamese Strike
Albanian Containment
Gabon Surprise
Iraq Sovereignty
Vietnamese Sudden
Lebanon Interdiction
Taiwan Domestic
Algerian Sovereignty
Arabian Strike
Atlantic Sudden
Mongolian Thrust
Polish Decoy
Alaskan Discretionary
Canadian Thrust
Arabian Light
South African Domestic
Tunisian Incident
Malaysian Maneuver
Jamaica Decoy
Malaysian Minimal
Russian Sovereignty
Chad Option
Bangladesh War
Burmese Containment
Asian Theaterwide
Bulgarian Clandestine
Greenland Incursion
Egypt Surgical
Czech Heavy
Taiwan Confrontation
Greenland Maximum
Uganda Offensive
Caspian Defense

Personally I'd prefer a nice game of chess.

relcec		2012-06-15 01:44:35 AM

good practice for the general staff.

fred_chan		2012-06-15 01:52:04 AM

DrPainMD: And yet, Americans still don't see the parallels between the US and Nazi Germany.

Godwinned already.

/also you don't seem to know much about WWII

DORMAMU		2012-06-15 02:00:23 AM

dave1y: NewportBarGuy: I thought The Secret Army of Northern Virginia had requested first crack at D.C.?

Oh, god. They ask for crap like that all the time. First it was 'take Kentucky because that's what Daniel Boone would have done'.. Then they wanted to go to Miami. My source has it that they have to man the bunker at the Greenbrier just so they won't hurt themselves.

they actually got a part his time

t3.gstatic.com

/hot like operation human shield

Medic Zero		2012-06-15 02:15:00 AM

fusillade762		2012-06-15 02:20:20 AM

Piestar: fusillade762: DrPainMD: dave1y: Oh, and the US has 3 contingency plans for invading every country in the world.

And yet, Americans still don't see the parallels between the US and Nazi Germany.

hint: if you're fighting a war, and your national sovereignty hasn't been challenged, you are the aggressor; you are the bad guy.

Was our sovereignty threatened during WWII?

Perhaps a tad, on December seventh...

Hawaii wasn't a state until 1959.

DrGunsforHands		2012-06-15 02:30:22 AM

Medic Zero: DrPainMD: dave1y: Oh, and the US has 3 contingency plans for invading every country in the world.

And yet, Americans still don't see the parallels between the US and Nazi Germany.

hint: if you're fighting a war, and your national sovereignty hasn't been challenged, you are the aggressor; you are the bad guy.

No. It's always been this way, we had plans for invading Canada in the 1920's. Did we expect to ever have to do so? No. It's just what militaries do.

/ Not that we weren't the aggressor in Iraq...

We invaded Canada once before. Didn't end so well though.

tb tibbles		2012-06-15 02:46:52 AM

fusillade762: Piestar: fusillade762: DrPainMD: dave1y: Oh, and the US has 3 contingency plans for invading every country in the world.

And yet, Americans still don't see the parallels between the US and Nazi Germany.

hint: if you're fighting a war, and your national sovereignty hasn't been challenged, you are the aggressor; you are the bad guy.

Was our sovereignty threatened during WWII?

Perhaps a tad, on December seventh...

Hawaii wasn't a state until 1959.

Hawaii is 3500 miles from Japan. If they could make that trip it would get them 2000 miles from the US mainland if they decided to land troops and make it a base. Not something we wanted to have happen.

Aside from the sneak attack thingy which made it serious business.

DrPainMD		2012-06-15 02:51:35 AM

fusillade762: DrPainMD: dave1y: Oh, and the US has 3 contingency plans for invading every country in the world.

And yet, Americans still don't see the parallels between the US and Nazi Germany.

hint: if you're fighting a war, and your national sovereignty hasn't been challenged, you are the aggressor; you are the bad guy.

Was our sovereignty threatened during WWII?

No. Neither Japan nor Germany had the ability to sustain an invasion into the US. Plus, by the time the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor (which was not the US), we had been fighting their ally the Germans in the Atlantic for six months, and the bombing of Japanese troops in China was imminent. Kinda hard to say that we weren't acting aggressively.

Piestar		2012-06-15 02:56:28 AM

fusillade762: Piestar: fusillade762: DrPainMD: dave1y: Oh, and the US has 3 contingency plans for invading every country in the world.

And yet, Americans still don't see the parallels between the US and Nazi Germany.

hint: if you're fighting a war, and your national sovereignty hasn't been challenged, you are the aggressor; you are the bad guy.

Was our sovereignty threatened during WWII?

Perhaps a tad, on December seventh...

Hawaii wasn't a state until 1959.

Doesn't have to be a state to be sovereign territory.

ImpendingCynic		2012-06-15 02:59:53 AM

Gyrfalcon: dave1y: Oh, and the US has 3 contingency plans for invading every country in the world.

They need three plans to invade Antarctica?!?

Penguins are unpredictable. The top hat and cigarette holder slow them down, but the fancy umbrella tricks can throw you off guard.

DrPainMD		2012-06-15 03:04:15 AM

Piestar: fusillade762: Piestar: fusillade762: DrPainMD: dave1y: Oh, and the US has 3 contingency plans for invading every country in the world.

And yet, Americans still don't see the parallels between the US and Nazi Germany.

hint: if you're fighting a war, and your national sovereignty hasn't been challenged, you are the aggressor; you are the bad guy.

Was our sovereignty threatened during WWII?

Perhaps a tad, on December seventh...

Hawaii wasn't a state until 1959.

Doesn't have to be a state to be sovereign territory.

Oh, right. We just have to send a ship full of Marines there and threaten to kill every man, woman and child in the country if they don't hand it over to us.

untaken_name		2012-06-15 03:07:18 AM

I like how invasion plans are "protective". Doubleplusgood!

david_gaithersburg		2012-06-15 03:31:24 AM

Gyrfalcon: dave1y: Oh, and the US has 3 contingency plans for invading every country in the world.

They need three plans to invade Antarctica?!?

,
,
HOLY SHIAT!!!! OBAMA IS POSTING ON FARK!

Unimpressed Man		2012-06-15 03:39:26 AM

zamboni: Eh... big deal. The
U.S. Defense

Here's hoping.

Unimpressed Man		2012-06-15 03:40:08 AM

/drunk, can't crop prose for shiat

Void_Beavis		2012-06-15 03:45:31 AM

Piestar: fusillade762: Piestar: fusillade762: DrPainMD: dave1y: Oh, and the US has 3 contingency plans for invading every country in the world.

And yet, Americans still don't see the parallels between the US and Nazi Germany.

hint: if you're fighting a war, and your national sovereignty hasn't been challenged, you are the aggressor; you are the bad guy.

Was our sovereignty threatened during WWII?

Perhaps a tad, on December seventh...

Hawaii wasn't a state until 1959.

Doesn't have to be a state to be sovereign territory.

You won't convince the "US is always evil" crowd.

Oh, and this.

Never mind that during Pearl, our Navy was like totally pwnd. And Japan totally knew that. And they sure as hell didn't jump on any plans to take advantage of that spurred on by Germany. No. That never happened.

Revisionist history is revisionist.

untaken_name		2012-06-15 03:49:46 AM

Void_Beavis: Never mind that during Pearl, our Navy was like totally pwnd

I've been on Fark too long. I can't tell anymore. Are you joking?

Enemabag Jones		2012-06-15 03:55:05 AM

No matter what action Obama takes, I am quite sure Republicans will be able to point out how he screwed it up.

/If this can be handled discreetly like Libya, it would be idea.

//Bye bye Michael Corleone, you know this wasn't your calling anyway.

catonacid		2012-06-15 03:55:16 AM

untaken_name: Void_Beavis: Never mind that during Pearl, our Navy was like totally pwnd

I've been on Fark too long. I can't tell anymore. Are you joking?

I actually don't understand that post, at all. I'm not sure if it's heavy sarcasm, or he's really passionate about what he said.

fusillade762		2012-06-15 03:58:32 AM

Void_Beavis: Never mind that during Pearl, our Navy was like totally pwnd.

The ships they sank there were all on the verge of being decommissioned. And clear warnings of the attack were ignored. Roosevelt just wanted an excuse to enter the war. Plus farking with Japan's access to rubber, oil and steel was viewed as aggression by *us*.

In any event Hawaii was illegally annexed by the US.

bubo_sibiricus		2012-06-15 04:05:16 AM

Top poastan because today I am just that way:

Many of these sound like sexual positions defined in the Urban Dictionary. Especially "Thai Variant" or "Turkish Decoy" or "Mexican Takeover" or "Ethiopian Calamity"

zamboni: Eh... big deal. The list of scenarios looks pretty harmless.

U.S. First Strike
U.S.S.R. First Strike
NATO / Warsaw Pact
Far East Strategy
U.S. / U.S.S.R. escalation
Middle East War
U.S.S.R. / China Attack
India / Pakistan War
Mediterranean War
Hong Kong Variant
SEATO Decapitating
Cuban Provocation
Inadvertent
Atlantic Heavy
Cuban Paramilitary
Nicaraguan Pre-emptive
Pacific Territorial
Burmese Theaterwide
Turkish Decoy
Argentina Escalation
Iceland Maximum
Arabian Theaterwide
U.S. Subversion
Australian Maneuver
Sudan Surprise
NATO Territorial
Zaire Alliance
Iceland Incident
English Escalation
Zaire Screen
Middle East Heavy
Mexican Takeover
Chad Alert
Saudi Maneuver
African Territorial
Ethiopian Calamity
Canadian (obstructed)
Turkish Heavy
NATO Incursion
U.S. Defense
Cambodian Heavy
Warsaw Pact Medium
Arctic Minimal
Mexican Domestic
Taiwanese Theaterwide
Pacific Maneuver
Portugal Revolution
Albanian Decoy
Palestinian Local
Moroccan Minimal
Czech Option
French Alliance
Arabian Clandestine
Gabon Rebellion
Northern Maximum
SEATO Takeover
Hawaiian Escalation
Iranian Maneuver
NATO Containment
Swiss Incident
Cuba Minimal
Iceland Escalation
Vietnamese Retaliation
Syrian Provocation
Libyan Local
Gabon Takeover
Romanian War
Middle East Offensive
Denmark Massive
Chile Confrontation
South African Subversion
U.S.S.R. Alert
Nicaraguan Thrust
Greenland Domestic
Iceland Heavy
Kenya Option
Pacific Defense
Uganda Maximum
Thai Subversion
Romanian Strike
Pakistan Sovereignty
Afghan Misdirection
Thai Variation
Northern Territorial
Polish Paramilitary
South African Offensive
Panama Misdirection
Scandinavian Domestic
Jordan Pre-emptive
...