Must have been the same guy who did this one............
Posted on 07/11/2008 12:48:59 PM PDT by HD1200
IRAN MISSILE TEST BIG BLUFF: OLD ROCKETS, BOGUS VIDEO Fri Jul 11 2008 15:18:02 ET
Many of Iran's claims related to its missile tests appears to be smoke and mirrors, the NEW YORK TIMES is planning to report on Saturday.
The missiles tested did not have 2,000-kilometer range; it was an older missile that was out of production, newsroom srouces tell DRUDGE. A video showed what appeared to be many missiles being fired is actually one missile, filmed from different angles.
NYT's Bill Broad is planning to quote Pentagon officials and military insiders.
Developing...
That was news 36 hours ago
Yes, old rockets. We saw that yesterday
Old video? Ummm....
Bluff? Not a bluff as much as saber rattling and chest thumping prior to negotiations next week.
They just wanted to raise the price of oil. Amazing what Photoshop can do, eh?
well that’s what the NY times gets, when they use the iranian military as the “news source”
imagine the outrage during WWII if the US media used tokyo rose as a “source”
Oil went up $20
Personally I’d still bomb them back to the stone age, just on principle.
Must have been the same guy who did this one............
No, the news was that the photo had been doctored, not that the entire video and rockets were old.
But I love seeing the Dems in turmoil.
So I'm conflicted at seeing this current high oil price party end just yet.
Faking WMD is not a good national policy. Just look what happened to Sadam. He ended up a the short end of a rope.
We can only hope that the Iranian’s do it them selves.
Plagiarism.
Proving that Drudge is ‘yesterday’s news’, he copies the New York Times who copied FreeRepublic and LGF.
Neither Drudge nor NYTimes (traitorous rag) gave the proper citation.
Maybe we can show some photo shopped pics of oil rigs off the coast of Marthas Vineyard and Palm Beach.
http://www.nypost.com/seven/07112008/news/worldnews/irans_bogus_ballistics_119392.htm
Furthermore, radar and satellite data indicate that whatever was tested yesterday was of a short range, the source said.
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Meanwhile, Israeli defense analysts said the “new” long-range missile of which Iran boasted was just an older Shahab-3, which has a range of less than 900 miles, not the 1,240 Tehran claimed.
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Gates came out tooting the Star Wars horn too quickly. Did he think he could get away with this when “Western Sources” and the Israelis also had the real info? He thought they wouldn’t tell?
“Personally I’d still bomb them back to the stone age, just on principle”
Absolutely - say “Death to America” and I am going to believe you mean it.
Tests show US shield 'not needed' ( Say the Russians about the Iranian Test......?????)
“Bluff? Not a bluff as much as saber rattling and chest thumping prior to negotiations next week.”
Makes sense.
The missiles are a near empty, macho gesture. If they blow a nuclear device, that’s a different story.
I sense there may be some big moves in the middle east soon involving calming down Iraq, Syria and Israel, and it will be the Gulf Arabs, not the US, forcing the deals.
Projectile Dysfunction
(Somebody had to say it.)
(Am I banned now?)
bttt
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