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34 warships sent from US for Obama visit
• www.ndtv.comCommunications set-up and nuclear button and majority of the White House staff will be in India accompanying the President on this three-day visit that will cover Mumbai and Delhi.
He will also be protected by a fleet of 34 warships, including an aircraft carrier, which will patrol the sea lanes off the Mumbai coast during his two-day stay there beginning Saturday. The measure has been taken as Mumbai attack in 2008 took place from the sea.
4 Comments in Response to 34 warships sent from US for Obama visit
What an incredible waste of tax dollars.
http://ibnlive.in.com/news/obama-visit-critised-for-overthetop-spending/134409-2.html
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/barackobama/8109295/Coconuts-removed-from-trees-in-preparation-for-Barack-Obamas-India-trip.html
Oh big deal, that's a single enhanced carrier group. At today's bargain prices that's only about $500M total cost of deployment, soup-to-nuts and all the troops get these neat postcards to send home.