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US Made Covert Plan to Retrieve Iran Drone (but feared to upset Iran)
Wall Street Journal ^ | 7 December 2011 | Julian E. Barnes

Posted on 12/07/2011 5:38:29 AM PST by JOHN ADAMS

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My impulse is that this is a remarkable failure of will by our country, and that a President who wasn't a coward would have done what needed to be done to get this thing back or destroy it. But I don't have the knowledge or experience to understand precisely what would have been involved in doing that. Comments from FreeRepublic readers gratefully appreciated.
1 posted on 12/07/2011 5:38:35 AM PST by JOHN ADAMS
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U.S. officials considered conducting a covert mission inside Iran to retrieve or destroy a JIMMY CARTER that crashed late last week, but ultimately concluded such a secret operation wasn’t worth the risk of provoking a more explosive clash with Tehran, a U.S. official said.


2 posted on 12/07/2011 5:40:24 AM PST by Blado (2008: Year Zero of the Zombie Apocalypse.)
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This is Jugears’ “Desert One”.


3 posted on 12/07/2011 5:42:15 AM PST by Redleg Duke ("Madison, Wisconsin is 30 square miles surrounded by reality.", L. S. Dryfus)
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At a minimum, they should have blown it up with a Hellfire missile.

Now the Russians will have the technology, as I’m sure they’ve already paid Iran for the wreckage.

Thanks to our Idiot-in-Chief!


4 posted on 12/07/2011 5:43:33 AM PST by G Larry ("I dream of a day when a man is judged by the content of his Character.")
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I'm not sure how one more mysterious explosion in Iran would cause a deterioration of relations with Tehran. I suspect that the Golfer-In-Chief must have had something to do with quashing this idea.
5 posted on 12/07/2011 5:45:43 AM PST by Sooth2222 ("Suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of congress. But I repeat myself." M.Twain)
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They could have commissioned a couple of Israelis to get the job done.


6 posted on 12/07/2011 5:46:15 AM PST by Mr Ramsbotham (Laws against sodomy are honored in the breech.)
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A B-2 with a couple of laser guided 2000 lb bombs would have done the trick with none the wiser. The problem is not with the military’s ability to fulfill the mission but the lack of a nut sack by the “won” calling the shots.
7 posted on 12/07/2011 5:48:03 AM PST by rightwingextremist1776
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The undocumented one always supports the mullahs
against America.
today, SSDD.
the failure to retrieve is an attempt
by the undocumented impostor for
plausible deniability for the
Obama-planned transfer of USA assets to the mullahs.


8 posted on 12/07/2011 5:50:46 AM PST by Diogenesis ("Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. " Pres. Ronald Reagan)
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...as I’m sure they’ve already paid Iran for the wreckage.

With deadly technology.

9 posted on 12/07/2011 5:51:24 AM PST by EGPWS (Trust in God, question everyone else)
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What, no self-destruct function?


10 posted on 12/07/2011 5:51:53 AM PST by Rummyfan (Iraq: it's not about Iraq anymore, it's about the USA!)
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Ir never crossed anyone’s minds that these things could crash?


11 posted on 12/07/2011 5:51:53 AM PST by DManA
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It is likely there is no technology in the wreck worth fighting over. We already know that the design did not include the really secret stealth stuff.

The good stuff is where the computer flying the plane is stored. Radio controlled planes are available for $79 at walmart


12 posted on 12/07/2011 6:01:11 AM PST by bert (K.E. N.P. +12 ..... Crucifixion is coming)
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Obama is an effing COWARD!

Mike

13 posted on 12/07/2011 6:05:05 AM PST by MichaelP (The ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of folly is to fill the world with fools ~HS)
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So send in stealth aircraft and blow the damn thing up!! Use nukes, if necessary.

OR...we could send over the "bower and scraper" in chief to grovel to the mullahs and plead and whine for them to give it back!!

14 posted on 12/07/2011 6:05:44 AM PST by GoldenPup
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Maybe we wanted them to capture it. And take it back to their secret bunker. And to connect up the computer to their network...Nah.
15 posted on 12/07/2011 6:08:41 AM PST by McGruff (Hold the House, retake the Senate.)
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To: nuconvert

Ping.


16 posted on 12/07/2011 6:22:53 AM PST by Army Air Corps (Four fried chickens and a coke)
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Yes, it seems obvious that the craft lacked a self destruct feature. Why is beyond me other then to share of our technology as already pointed out.


17 posted on 12/07/2011 6:26:41 AM PST by mcshot (Neither handsome nor handy but took an oath and will vote to save our Country.)
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To: JOHN ADAMS

I oncee thought that this is a set-up to make the Iranian Mullahs even more nervous. However, with the stupid admission that it was ours, and the follow-up that it was a joint military-CIA drone, it is obvious that once again we are dealing with the usual f-up. If the USA was unwilling to deny its provenance and then did not have the guts to retrieve it, they should have destroyed it. And if they didn’t destroy it the Congress (certainly not the feckless Senate) should demand an explanation from both the Pentagon, the CIA and the White House.


18 posted on 12/07/2011 6:27:41 AM PST by Melchior
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Dear John,

Perhaps it didn’t crash? Perhaps it was a gift for a favor to be announced at a future time. After I leave office.

Signed,

BO


19 posted on 12/07/2011 6:31:23 AM PST by arkady_renko (I want to believe.)
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To: G Larry
At a minimum, they should have blown it up with a Hellfire missile.

If Iran hasn't released a picture of their trophy yet, that's probably what we did.

20 posted on 12/07/2011 6:36:19 AM PST by Moonman62 (The US has become a government with a country, rather than a country with a government.)
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