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US Secretly Deploys B-1 Strategic Bombers, E-6 "Doomsday" Planes Near North Korea
Zerohedge.com ^ | April 5, 2013 | Tyler Durden

Posted on 04/05/2013 5:28:06 PM PDT by Former Proud Canadian

First the US fanfared the placement of two F-22 Raptors in the Osan airbase of South Korea. Then it demonstratively launched a B-2 stealth bomber on a training mission over a South Korean gunnery range. Then it deployed an anti-ballistic missile defense system to Guam and positioned two guided-missile destroyers in the waters near Korea. And now, courtesy of the Aviationist, we learn that the Pentagon has escalated once more in an ongoing cat and mouse game with North Korea, of who blinks first, and dispatched several B-1 ("Bone") Lancer strategic long-range bombers to Andersen Air Force Base in Guam. What is different this time, however, is that unlike the previous very public and widely trumpeted reciprocal escalation steps, this particular deployment has been kept secret from the public (at least the broader public), "a fact that could be the sign that the U.S. is not only making symbolic moves (as the above mentioned ones), but it is preparing for the worst scenario: an attack on North Korea."

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TOPICS: Breaking News; Foreign Affairs; Government; News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: b1; guam; northkorea; notsosecret; opsec; secret; waronterror
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To: bert
So, the norko missile jobs have been lost and unemployment grows. The law of unintended consequences prevails

Its a communist state, there are no real jobs as we know then in the country outside the Kaesong Industrial Area

161 posted on 04/06/2013 8:03:50 AM PDT by GeronL (http://asspos.blogspot.com)
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To: tanknetter

NK has invested in heavily fortified positions for key artillery units in order to prevent just such a first strike. It would take significantly more ordinance than you’d expect if you want to destroy those guns prior to them being moved to firing positions.


162 posted on 04/06/2013 8:07:25 AM PDT by Domalais
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To: Former Proud Canadian
US Secretly Deploys.....

Not anymore.

163 posted on 04/06/2013 8:07:33 AM PDT by concerned about politics ("Get thee behind me, Liberal")
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To: caww

They think we are starving and we are warmongering out of jealousy


164 posted on 04/06/2013 8:11:21 AM PDT by GeronL (http://asspos.blogspot.com)
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To: expat_panama

No we are talking about the incompetent conflicting policies coming from an administration that was totally clueless about it goals in Korea. An administration that only a year before the war that had withdrawn all US forces from S. Korea and announced to the world that Korea was outside “its’ area of influence”. Truman practically invited the invasion.


165 posted on 04/06/2013 8:13:01 AM PDT by jpsb
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To: ConservativeInPA
Preemptive smart bombs from 20K ft?
166 posted on 04/06/2013 8:14:52 AM PDT by ROCKLOBSTER (Hey RATS! Control your murdering freaks.)
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To: fabian

Patton and MacArthur both “fired” for telling the truth. Our generals have learned not to do that any more. I do not think we are better or safer with our new breed of PC officers.


167 posted on 04/06/2013 8:18:47 AM PDT by jpsb
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To: jpsb

Yes..they both knew full well the evil of communism and saw the murderous side of it. Now we have even revisionist judgers here on this site trying to rewrite the reality of MacArthur! oh boy...


168 posted on 04/06/2013 8:23:31 AM PDT by fabian (" And a new day will dawn for those who stand long, and the forests will echo in laughter")
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To: boatbums

Much attention focused on Guam. Couldn’t they just as easily strike Alaska? Oil...


169 posted on 04/06/2013 8:33:46 AM PDT by virgil
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To: MCH

Wow! I had no idea it would do a roll.

Thanks.


170 posted on 04/06/2013 8:34:31 AM PDT by ROCKLOBSTER (Hey RATS! Control your murdering freaks.)
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To: the OlLine Rebel

Concur about the effectiveness of our Silent Service. Those boys are Sierra Hotel and in the $hit right now.


171 posted on 04/06/2013 8:46:20 AM PDT by wxgesr (I want to be the first person to surf on another planet.)
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To: RacerX1128
“but he may have a convenient accident...the little chubby ronery godless puke.”

I would certainly hope the CIA has someone on the payroll to remove this little tyrant in such a way.

172 posted on 04/06/2013 10:20:35 AM PDT by Monorprise (`)
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To: gleeaikin

Hell, there was more than just one reporter there when we hit the beach. Musta been 20.


173 posted on 04/06/2013 10:53:54 AM PDT by halfright (FAST & FURIOUS! DON'T ALLOW THEM TO DIVERT YOUR ATTENTION.)
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To: GeronL
Unfortunately generations of mind-control over those people has been successful....all three Kim's and the leadership are dastardly in every way.

Still...I just truly pray some day God will remove them and free the people....maybe with technology creeping into the country...and those who have left sneaking back in ...in time and with the sanctions the people might turn against this whole crazy scenario....it's pretty obvious nations aren't willing to do more than the status quo.

174 posted on 04/06/2013 10:57:29 AM PDT by caww
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To: Monorprise

Makes ya wonder why this hasn’t been done long before. And or at least take out their nuke systems.

I think too many, who could make a difference, like the country just as it has been and is.


175 posted on 04/06/2013 10:59:24 AM PDT by caww
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To: SatinDoll

You’d be quite “underestimative” about that. The USS Ohio operates regularly out of Bangor and it alone could re-configure NKor. But the Ohio has a whole quiver full of friends, both boomers and fast attacks with vert-tubes that also operate from Puget Sound and Pearl. Then don’t forget the USS Nimitz is on its way and it has underwater friends who can bite if called upon by the Kenyan.


176 posted on 04/06/2013 11:34:26 AM PDT by cherokee1 (skip the names---just kick the buttz)
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To: Old Sarge

Sometimes we talk “BS” in the open just to lay it on thick. The radio that came from might have been parked on the ground. But even talking BS has a way of being revealing——the best way to cover is by constant chatter some of which might actually mean something.


177 posted on 04/06/2013 11:52:59 AM PDT by cherokee1 (skip the names---just kick the buttz)
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To: caww

“Makes ya wonder why this hasn’t been done long before. And or at least take out their nuke systems.

I think too many, who could make a difference, like the country just as it has been and is.”

Taking out a man is a lot easier than taking out a system of weapon or a weapons development program(which is indeed a whole lot of people).

If we wanted to take out north Korea’s weapons we would have to call their bluff and start bombing.


178 posted on 04/06/2013 12:09:49 PM PDT by Monorprise (`)
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To: Monorprise

Well of course it’s easier...but then why has this not been done along the way.....

I understand all the dynamics of other nations involved with N.Korea...the boundary lines and who stands to gain or loose....my point is it does seem all nations are perfectly content to let things happen as they are with the people of Korea...likely because the N.Koreans don’t know anything different.

Needless saying N.Korea is about the most bizarre and strangest of nations...


179 posted on 04/06/2013 12:19:01 PM PDT by caww
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To: fabian
Show me where MacArthur said it was impossible for the Chinese to invade north Korea. Never did. He was a brilliant general...

Hey if you've already decided then I wont argue. 

All I got are newspaper reports, eyewitness accounts, and historical analysis about why Macarthur didn't expect and chose to not prepare for China's invasion of Korea.  Not only that, how he was so oblivious to the seriousness of the October catastrophe afterward that he proceeded to announce that the boys would be home by Christmas.

180 posted on 04/06/2013 12:37:37 PM PDT by expat_panama
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