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Would San Francisco Want A Battleship If It Wasn’t An American One? Hmm …

San Franciscans may not want the battleship Iowa anywhere near their city, but it looks like she would be welcome in Moscow … yes, that Moscow.

The BBC reports that these posters appeared around the Russian capital in preparation for Defender of the Motherland day:

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The problem: that’s the Iowa’s sister ship, the USS Missouri — not exactly a unit of the Soviet or Russian navies.

Embarrassed Moscow city officials removed the posters on Wednesday.

This sparks an idea … what if the Iowa were presented to San Francisco’s supervisors as a symbol of Soviet military supremacy? Perhaps with some red flags flying from her masts? How quickly would we see her docked down at the waterfront?

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H/t: Lawyers, Guns, and Money

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    Helzerman’s Odd Bits Says:
    February 25th, 2006 at 6:00 pm

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    February 27th, 2006 at 9:19 am

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