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1 posted on 07/03/2014 7:07:33 AM PDT by sukhoi-30mki
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To: sukhoi-30mki

They have them but can they fly them without crashing?


2 posted on 07/03/2014 7:22:47 AM PDT by Blood of Tyrants (Haven't you lost enough freedoms? Support an end to the WOD now.)
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To: sukhoi-30mki

“Iraq has four pilots in the air force with Su-25 experience,...”

Saddam Hussein was a Sunni Muslim, so you can trust that his officer corp and certainly his pilots were Sunni Muslim -otherwise he risked a disgruntle Shiite pilot defecting or worse bombing his palace. (There was one instance of a Iraqi pilot, closet Christian, defecting to Israel with a Mig 21 in the 70’s.)

So now will Maliki (Shiite) trust a Saddam era pilot who’s likely a Sunni to attack ISIS (Sunni)? Not likely and for the same reasons as Saddam.


3 posted on 07/03/2014 7:27:59 AM PDT by Fitzy_888 ("ownership society")
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To: sukhoi-30mki

Well that just suks.


5 posted on 07/03/2014 8:48:34 AM PDT by beethovenfan (If Islam is the solution, the "problem" must be freedom.)
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