Iran Shoots Down US Drone

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  1. Mandelus

    Mandelus Well-Known Member

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    O really? You know thatr it was Bush who messed up the country and that Obama had to clean up this mess ... and now you are talking that Obama killed jobs? Look on the authority digits again please...
     
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    Iran seems to be looking for a fight. We can't show restraint forever
     
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    It was Democrats demanding banks make subprime loans that messed up the economy.
     
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    I'm not an expert to see if they really are part of a Global Hawk ... but suppose they are ... how does Iran get to pieces if they were shot down outside of Iranian territory and airspace, like the Pentagon? claims!

    I hardly believe that the US or the inciters like Oman here let the Iranians calmly pick up the debris when it is in their area or out of Iran, eh?
     
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    Lol .... look on Trumps loans since he sits in White House please!

    And you really think that Iran will not react very hard?
    I really hope you are not one of these clueless clowns who think it will be only a rough military march to beat Iran ...
     
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    Exactly.
     
  7. Mandelus

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    Sorry ... bullshit! It was teh Republicans which ended necessary control of the Wall Street guys which made this wild west behavior possible which caused to the crash!
    The same was even given unter Reagan too ... when he ended the sriuct control implemented by Rossevelt once ... and woops, there was the crash in the 1980's ... you remember?
     
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    No subprime loans no housing crash and your revisionist history of Reagan is laughable.
     
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    We are in their backyard, not the other way around. We are looking for a fight, they are not.

    We have a long history of military aggression against innocent countries. They do not.
     
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    They fired on us not visa versa and they are attempting to close down shipping in international waters.
     
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    They fired on us because our aircraft was in their airspace without permission.

    We would do the same, or worse.

    Back in the 80's the USS Vincennes fired on and destroyed an Iranian airliner, killing all.
     
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    Satellite evidence and smoke trail say different.
     
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    Yeah, this is key here. TARP and the Stimulus did what they did, but the real driver of economic policy is the Fed. The Fed's quantatative easing program during Obama dumped massive amounts of liquidity into the system (to the horror of Republicans who were convinced hyperinflation was right around every corner).
     
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    Russia is chummy with Iran and closing the strait would impact europe and china more than anyone else. Guess who can provide fuel to europe and china without going through the strait... Yep!
     
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    I'm not saying it does. I'm just saying that that is the message that needs to be conveyed to the Iranian government and every member of the UN should be making that message clear.
     
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    So is flying that drone into another countries air space to spy on them.


    Why is it, that Americans only seem to get pissed about the things done to them, but think they have the right to violate the sovereignty of any nation it wants at will?
     
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    It wasn't in their airspace.
     
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    This is nothing more than an ego shot for Trump. Dont kid yourself that he cares about it beyond any level other than how it effects him personally, and his "feelings"
     
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    Your comment is without any basis in reality what so ever. But I find it less and less shocking in this day and age that Trump voters are so grossly mis informed.



    Remember when we were kids, our parents would tell us that video games would rot our brains? Seems like the real danger was Fox News.
     
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    You should've listen to them.
     
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    I very much doubt that. But hey, just eat up whatever that buffoon in the white house tells you. I know you will.
     
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    Shooting down one of our drones over International waters could technically be considered an act of war. But no one in the US is willing to take that step, even if it can be proved beyong any doubt
    that it was over International waters, (and proving that to everyone's satisfaction will be impossible). The drone was unmanned, making it unlikely anyone will press for action that could result in deaths.
    Iran is carefully calculating its agressions. The wreckage shown means nothing. Such material can be easily created. Iran claimed it shot the drone down in its territorial waters, so how did they retrieve
    so much material? Iran shot down an American drone in December 2011, and are known to have reverse-engineered it to make drones of their own. Having an American drone would make it easy
    for them to fabricate a wrecked one. As I have said before, the US does not want war - if it did we would already be fighting. Iran knows this and is thumbing their noses at America to impress their
    own, oppressed and unhappy people.
     
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    Better than sucking up to islamist despot, but hey, whatever float your boat.
     

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