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Last night Obama got a point in about Romney's claims that our navy is weaker because it's amount of ships have decreased since WWI
Today Paul Ryan responded:
Congressman Ryan, regarding your sharp eye on US military needs such as wanting $2 Trillion in increased spending that the military didn't ask for and implication on how bayonets are an irrlevant military tool... weeeellllll the Navy doesn't use battleships anymore either because they also were phased out. So you are right. You just don't understand.
"You mentioned the Navy, for example, and that we have fewer ships than we did in 1916," Obama said. "Well, Governor, we also have fewer horses and bayonets, because the nature of our military's changed.
"We have these things called aircraft carriers, where planes land on them. We have these ships that go under water, nuclear submarines," he said.
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"We have these things called aircraft carriers, where planes land on them. We have these ships that go under water, nuclear submarines," he said.
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Today Paul Ryan responded:
"To compare modern American battleships and Navy with bayonets, I just don't understand that comparison," Ryan said in an interview that aired Tuesday on CBS' This Morning.
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Congressman Ryan, regarding your sharp eye on US military needs such as wanting $2 Trillion in increased spending that the military didn't ask for and implication on how bayonets are an irrlevant military tool... weeeellllll the Navy doesn't use battleships anymore either because they also were phased out. So you are right. You just don't understand.