Nothing to negotiate? How bout the TERMS OF THE AGREEMENT?! Do you think US troops being subject to the Iraqi judiciary was written in stone somewhere? But your boy didn't want an agreement, he wanted out so that he could tell people like you that he ended the war in Iraq.

Yes, I'm too young to remember. I'm so young that I was deployed to the Gulf in '91.

How the hell does Iraq even need to be explained? Your dear leader pulled all US forces out of the country. With them gone the most radical terrorist elements were able to reconstitute themselves as ISIS, spreading into Syria as well, and a weak and corrupt Iraqi government has been unable to stop them. Now the…

Oh, I'm sure you're absolutely right. Still, if I were made dictator tomorrow one of my first orders would be to take at least two of them out of mothballs for complete rebuilding and modernization. Just keep the hulls and the 16 inch guns.

And you are rather pathetic. If I am such a dumbass you could at least make a feeble attempt to illustrate how my comment was wrong. But you don't and instead you just type childish insults.

From all the residents of Egypt, Libya, Iraq & Syria: "Thanks Obama!".

I'd never seen that ad before and it's fantastic. Thanks for posting it.

I'm sure there are literally hundreds of billions of dollars worth of reasons why it wasn't done, why it wasn't economically feasible, but damn I wish they would have continued to update those ships, with the modern radar and weapons systems you love so much, to keep them around.

Oh. Was under the mistaken impression they now produced in the US.

The "Super Snake" is the 1967 GT500 that was built as both the pilot unit of a 50 car run of 427 GT500s that (mostly) never materialized and for use in the Goodyear Thunderbolt tire test. It then went to a Shelby dealer in California before being sold to two pilots from Texas who drag raced the car.

I know Guinness has some arbitrary number they say must be built for a car to attain "production car" status, but it's a GT500 built by Shelby (there were 2048 of them constructed in 1967) and sold to the public. To me that's a production car.

I'm with you but wouldn't your choice have to be theater dependent? I don't think I'd want to go up against Fw-190s or Me-262s in a Hellcat.

The only 1967 GT500 built with a 427 strongly disagrees with that. Shelby himself hit 170 mph in this car at Goodyear's track before handing the car to one of his engineers for a 500 mile tire test that was run at an average speed of 142 mph.

What's wrong with Eleanor? It's a little generic and not very fast but it's the star of the greatest car chase in the history of cinema!

But at the start of the war what didn't the Zeros cut to ribbons? Wasn't it just as much a change in tactics as better equipment that turned things around?

Was just reading another article that said the Finns kill ratio with the Buffalo in 1941 was 67.5:1.

Apparently the Finns went to town with 'em against Ivan; the explanation given was the Commies were sending their best pilots and aircraft against Jerry so the Finns were mostly operating against biplanes flown by third rate pilots.

Nope, I was dead wrong. That's what I get for relying on memory. The Hellcat didn't even have the highest kill ratio of WWII fighter planes, the Brewster Buffalo did. And, as 365Daytonafan pointer out, the F15 is perfect.

I thought for sure that I a documentary I'd watched on the Hellcat credited it with the best kill ratio ever. However a Google search disproves that as it didn't even have the best ratio of WWII.

Doesn't the Hellcat have the highest kills/loses ratio of any fighter plane ever put in service?