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Iran Wants To Clone Downed US Drone
PolygamousRanchKid sends this quote from the LA Times:
"The Obama administration has sent a formal diplomatic request asking Iran to return the radar-evading drone aircraft that crashed on a CIA spying mission this month, but U.S. officials say they don't expect Iran will comply. 'We have asked for it back,' Obama said Monday at a news conference in Washington with Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri Maliki. 'We'll see how the Iranians respond.' His comments marked the first public confirmation that the RQ-170 Sentinel drone now in Iranian hands is a U.S. aircraft, though U.S. officials privately acknowledged that in recent days. Iran has claimed it downed the stealthy surveillance drone, but U.S. officials say it malfunctioned. Capture of the futuristic-looking unmanned spy plane has provided Tehran with a propaganda windfall. The government announced that it planned to clone and mass produce the bat-winged craft for use against its enemies."
Iran has also demanded an apology from the U.S. for the drone flight in its airspace.
What a competent president would have done is sent another drone to destroy it so the technology didn't fall into the hands of every enemy state in the world.
Instead, we're sending them a "formal" pretty-please.
Who knows, maybe we can sweeten the pot with a fruit basket and the Ayatollah will see things our way.
As an atheist I find fundamentalist regimes disgusting, but let's face it: The US is essentially an exact replica of Nazi Germany now, so, I'm kinda glad other countries are downing our drones.
The reality is, if you're using a drone, you're a fucking coward anyway. People call the alleged terrorists who allegedly flew planes into the twin towers cowards, but in reality a kamikaze suicide run takes some serious cajones (I don't believe the official version for a second, and I also don't think cajones is all that it takes to earn respect. As an atheist, if they really were fundamentalist terrorists (And I'm not talking about Bush/Cheney, who probably actually DID perpetrate the attack), they are still a bunch of imbeciles, cajones or not). Launching glorified RC rockets at targets thousands of miles away? That's the very definition of cowardice. I'm completely ashamed to be an American.
Stop the drones, and stop the NDAA, and MAYBE our country will have some credibility again. Until then, we're just pathetic, fat, cowardly bullies.
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