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Guest mustangdave

Hey Admiral...give the Congressman your side are will ya...he needs to play Russian Roulette...like in that other General topic thread...geez what a bafoon

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New link trying to explain what he meant. Yea right.

The Buzz Log - Concerns Over Guam Create a Stir on the Web - Yahoo! Buzz

The comments were delivered without a clear hint of sarcasm or irony, however Rep. Johnson is now insisting through a comment issued by a spokesperson that he was simply using a metaphor.

"I was using a metaphor to say that with the addition of 8,000 Marines and their dependents -- an additional 80,000 people during peak construction to the port on the tiny island with a population of 180,000 -- could be a tipping point which would adversely affect the island’s fragile ecosystem and overburden its already overstressed infrastructure."

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