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February 14, 2005
Saddam Hussein Didn't Have Aerial Drones, But Uncle Sam Does
According to the Washington Post:
The Bush administration has been flying surveillance drones over Iran for nearly a year to seek evidence of nuclear weapons programs and detect weaknesses in air defenses, according to three U.S. officials with detailed knowledge of the secret effort.
The small, pilotless planes, penetrating Iranian airspace from U.S. military facilities in Iraq, use radar, video, still photography and air filters designed to pick up traces of nuclear activity to gather information that is not accessible by satellites, the officials said. The aerial espionage is standard in military preparations for an eventual air attack and is also employed as a tool for intimidation. (Emphasis mine.)
In short, if you actually believed Condi Rice when she said that an attack on Iran was "not on the agenda at this point," you are the proverbial sucker who emerged in the minute of your birth.
Posted by Mike Tennant at February 14, 2005 10:51 AM
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With Bush and those guys...who knows what they have in mind. It could be a "good cop" v. "bad cop" thing. The EU's negotiate and the USG threatens war.
Unfortuately the world has learned that to thwart aggression they have to get nuclear.
The USG/NATO stocked up on nukes during the cold war years to thwart the bigger armies of the Warsaw Pact because nukes are a trump card against a bigger force.
That is the "logic" of going nuclear. Good piece MT.
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at February 14, 2005 11:22 AM
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