Face It: IRAN PWNED the CIA's Drone!

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JockoJohnson

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America.. fuck yeah. Lawl you guys can't even wage war the way you guys used to.

Of course not...too many pussies making the decisions these days. People are too afraid of offending someone else or stubbing their toe and then having a complaint filed against them in the war.
 

MotF Bane

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Iranian credibility:
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al981

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Again, the military had operations in motion to capture and/or destroy it and Obama called them off. He thought asking nicely and using the magic word would work.

:D:D:D

yeah, firing a missile into sovereign territory would've gone over well with world opinion. :D remember, you're trying to frame Iran as the bad guy in order to steal/control its oil again! thanks bolton. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uFbpKKOEnAE
 

Binarycow

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The number one rule in warfare is not to underestimate your enemy. Also, things that can go wrong sooner or later will (aka Murphy's law). Looks like we failed the first one due to incompetence and the second due to poor luck. Suck it up and move on.

Also, WTF is up with flying our drones inside their airspace? I just cannot imaging the bitching and foaming at mouth some would have if others did that to our airspace. Do as I say, not as I do then? (hypocrisy rule):whiste:
 

Patranus

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Are you a retard? We're not at war with Iran. We can't just lob bombs at their facilities to destroy unmanned craft we sent there in the first place.

No, but apparently you are a retard.

How does bombing the crap of out a drone on the ground bombing before it was recovered by the Iranians equate to bombing a facility?
 

Fausto

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No, but apparently you are a retard.

How does bombing the crap of out a drone on the ground bombing before it was recovered by the Iranians equate to bombing a facility?

This is weak trolling even by your standards.
 

AyashiKaibutsu

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No, but apparently you are a retard.

How does bombing the crap of out a drone on the ground bombing before it was recovered by the Iranians equate to bombing a facility?

Lol, yea that's how it happened. Oh wait, it's not you're just stupid.
 

Pneumothorax

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How does bombing the crap of out a drone on the ground bombing before it was recovered by the Iranians equate to bombing a facility?

And the Iranians wouldn't have done jack shit. They would just bark and holler with "Death to....!" chants etc... To the people who say Iran isn't a threat, they're not, but I'm quite sure Moscow and Beijing will be benefitting from Obama's choice in not bombing the drone when he had the chance.
 

DAPUNISHER

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Trojan Horse, of a different color?
 

Craig234

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Of course not...too many pussies making the decisions these days. People are too afraid of offending someone else or stubbing their toe and then having a complaint filed against them in the war.

You're an immoral idiot. If some street thug rapes your mother, see your post for the response. It's just being afraid of 'offending someone' for you to say anything.
 

Craig234

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America.. fuck yeah. Lawl you guys can't even wage war the way you guys used to.

We're doing a lot better not doing a lot of the wrong things we used to. You're a bit of a freak for a Canadian.

We've fought war before with terrorism against civilians, assassination, murdering police, supporting death squads, torture, mass firebombing of civilians, and more.

We are a weaker and worse nation when we do wrong, just as other nations have been (Germany and Japan just two examples). We should not do those evil things.
 

Patranus

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This is weak trolling even by your standards.

Huh?

Drone crashes in middle of desert.
US launches missiles/F-22s/whatever.
US bombs/blows the crap out of it.
Iran claims US bombed middle of no where.
US denies these claims.
Iran bitching and moans.
US continues on with business as usual.

Don't see the problem.

Then again, letting the Iranians recover a top secret drone is certainly preferable than upsetting the Iranians.
 

RbSX

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Of course not...too many pussies making the decisions these days. People are too afraid of offending someone else or stubbing their toe and then having a complaint filed against them in the war.

I don't think it has anything to do with decisions being made by pussies but rather the nature of a declining super power.
 

Karl Agathon

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Which is why we're never going to win in the middle east. You can't fight wars when your primary goal is to avoid pissing people off.

+1 As long as the military fights with one hand tied behind their backs. China or Russia sure as hell would fight wars like that.
 

Karl Agathon

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America.. fuck yeah. Lawl you guys can't even wage war the way you guys used to.

Well its as I said in my previous post. I was agreeing with someone else that most conflicts cant be won as long as the military fights with one hand tied behind its back.
 

zinfamous

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LOLbama...

Oh I get it:

bin Laden assassinated: "Wut?? No way Obama had anything to do with that? was he their, MORANS?!"

spy drone hacked and captured by Iran: "HAHA lolbama, what a fucking idiot! lolololol."
 

zinfamous

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Well its as I said in my previous post. I was agreeing with someone else that most conflicts cant be won as long as the military fights with one hand tied behind its back.

so you're of the opinion that we need to go to war with Iran?
 

Karl Agathon

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I don't think it has anything to do with decisions being made by pussies but rather the nature of a declining super power.

Huh? Have you read up on that "declining super power" military capabilities these days? Or is that just the typical "America is going down" bashing thats so trendy these days. if America actually fought in a conflict where it didnt hold back, you would see that oh so declining super power. :rolleyes:
 

Triumph

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I don't see what the big deal is. If they were able to circumvent our drone's guidance system and land it, then we don't have any technology on there deserving of being exploited. Sounds like they're already way ahead of us.