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Hellfire Missile Mistakenly Shipped To Cuba
HughPickens.com writes: NPR reports that a Hellfire missile that was supposedly shipped to Europe for military exercises in 2014 somehow ended up in Cuba. It's still a mystery as to how the missile reached Cuba but the incident has "confounded investigators and experts who work in a regulatory system designed to prevent precisely such equipment from falling into the wrong hands." According to sources, Lockheed Martin sent the missile to Europe for a NATO training exercise — and on its return, it ended up on a plane to Havana, where it was impounded. A US government official familiar with the situation calls it a "dummy" missile that lacks a warhead or guidance system. Originally designed to be launched from helicopters, Hellfire missiles have also been used to arm drone aircraft in recent years — one was credited with killing "Jihadi John" in a US operation. Since the missile arrived in Cuba in 2014, U.S. requests for its return have gone unheeded.
I suspect it was not a mistake. You have to remember that our "Dear Leader" is not playing for the home team.
I have no idea who Alex Jones is, but it is hardly a stretch to say that Obama's worldview is solidly against everything that most Americans believe in. His racist pastor pretty much captured the feeling in a single phrase: "God damn America". If you start looking into the rest of what he says, the crazy starts fast and pretty soon he goes full retard. But don't worry: Obama doesn't agree with what he says, even though he married Obama and his wife Michelle, baptized their two daughters and is credited by Obama for the title of his book, "The Audacity of Hope." Looking at the rest of the Leftist tradition that Obama comes from, it is like a hatefest of anti-Americanism. There is no evil in the world that cannot be connected to America somehow. Pretty soon you start running into people who think that America's greatest crime was beating the Soviet Union in the Cold War and you just have to stop reading.
Shutting down free speech with violence isn't fighting fascism. It IS fascism!