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Post by ironbite on Dec 15, 2011 1:02:05 GMT -5
AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
Ironbite-how cute you think Cheney doesn't influence anything anymore.
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Post by Napoleon the Clown on Dec 15, 2011 1:49:26 GMT -5
At this point, since oil is the only thing which is causing the US to support Middle Eastern dictatorships while fighting endless wars on the flimsiest of excuses in other parts of the region, I wouldn't mind at all if the price of oil shot up to a gazillion dollars a barrel. Maybe then we would finally start getting some clean energy sources, and the dictatorships in the Middle East would no longer have any support from anyone. Really? Do you really need to bring this kind of rhetoric into every discussion? Is it unreasonable to ask you to be, well, reasonable?
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Post by N. De Plume on Dec 15, 2011 9:42:39 GMT -5
Obama provocatively violated Iranian airspace. That's already cassus beli for war- why make it a certainty by needlessly bombing them? That would wreck all sorts of bullshit in Afghanistan and Iraq, not to mention Israel and the Gulf. "Casus Belli for war" is redundant. </pedant> But you're right. Maybe it's some sort of weird incipient bloodthirstiness in me, but when the President made a statement along the lines of "Iran has this drone, so we asked for it back," I cringed a little bit. It just seems so naive, but I really hope it works. I'm seeing the seeds of World War 3 everywhere these days. As has been said earlier, any other option for dealing with the drone could make this blow up even worse. Sounds like a no-win situation to me. Quick, someone re-program the world. Then we can just sit back and enjoy our apples.
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Post by canadian mojo on Dec 15, 2011 14:02:53 GMT -5
Really, the thing should have had a self destruct for just such occasions. You don't even need to take out the whole plane, just the really sensitive electronics, so a couple of grams of C4 would have been adequate. You don't need a big red button, you just need a switch that goes off when communication is interrupted or the power goes off for too long.
Then again, that might be exactly what happened and this is much ado about nothing. Or it's a CIA op to introduce a virus into the Iranian military computer system.
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Post by Meshakhad on Dec 15, 2011 14:43:47 GMT -5
Or it's a CIA op to introduce a virus into the Iranian military computer system. Is the CIA capable of such acts of genius? If so, I would love to see the Iranians' faces when they realize this. I will demand that President Obama give a speech acknowledging this that uses a variation on the phrase "all according to plan".
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Post by SimSim on Dec 15, 2011 15:36:26 GMT -5
They probably are. Stuxnet which seriously damaged Iran's nuclear plants was made jointly by the US and Israel. At least that's what all the evidence points to, neither government has confirmed it.
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