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2007-10-06 Syria-Lebanon-Iran

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Posted by Nimble Spemble 2007-10-06 10:30|| || Front Page|| [6 views ] Top

#1 Trip. We've got this story covered.

Posted by Nimble Spemble 2007-10-06 12:14|| 2007-10-06 12:14|| Front Page Top

#2 Rice's pull date has expired.

Posted by Zenster">Zenster 2007-10-06 15:01|| 2007-10-06 15:01|| Front Page Top

#3 Condi's become an absolute captive of the Foggy Bottom Arabist/appeaser crowd. She's beginning to make Colin Powell look good in comparison.

Posted by Ricky bin Ricardo (Abu Babaloo) 2007-10-06 18:03|| 2007-10-06 18:03|| Front Page Top

#4 If true, Condi is beginning to sound like she sticks to Sally Field's playbook: Gotta make sure they like us, they really like us.

Posted by Jules 2007-10-06 19:44|| 2007-10-06 19:44|| Front Page Top

#5 One reason I would try to restrain such an attack is that it has apparently revealed some technology we had available to us. Whenever you pull a new trick out of the bag, it doesn't take long for someone to develop a countermeasure for it. We might not have wanted to have this technology exposed to the Russians and Iranians.

Posted by crosspatch 2007-10-06 20:14|| 2007-10-06 20:14|| Front Page Top

#6 Gotta make sure they like us, they really like us.

When it comes to Muslims, the best way of doing that is by making sure we scare the ever-living-shit out of them. They need to be pissing all over themselves in abject gratitude and relief whenever we smile their way. Maybe then they'll "like us".

Posted by Zenster">Zenster 2007-10-06 21:43|| 2007-10-06 21:43|| Front Page Top

#7 We might not have wanted to have this technology exposed to the Russians and Iranians.

It's difficult to imagine that the Israelis felt as though they had any alternative. Especially so in light of Condie's recent Arabophillic treachery.

Posted by Zenster">Zenster 2007-10-06 21:45|| 2007-10-06 21:45|| Front Page Top

#8 Zen-I'd settle for them fearing us.

Posted by Jules 2007-10-06 22:03|| 2007-10-06 22:03|| Front Page Top

#9 Zen, it's quite likely that the suppression technology was from the US, not Israel, or at least not Israeli alone.

Posted by lotp 2007-10-06 22:08|| 2007-10-06 22:08|| Front Page Top

#10 Aviation Leak sez:
U.S. aerospace industry and retired military officials indicated today that a technology like the U.S.-developed Suter airborne network attack system developed by BAE Systems and integrated into U.S. unmanned aircraft by L-3 Communications was used by the Israelis. The system has been used or at least tested operationally in Iraq and Afghanistan over the last year.

FYI: Suter as in Colonel Richard "Moody" Suter, USAF.
The concept of Colonel David Burney, Colonel Richard "Moody" Suter became the driving force in its implementation, persuading Tactical Air Command commander Lt. Gen. Robert Dixon to adopt the program. Red Flag is one of a series of colored "flags" providing realistic training under combat conditions

Posted by ed 2007-10-06 22:30|| 2007-10-06 22:30|| Front Page Top

#11 it's quite likely that the suppression technology was from the US, not Israel, or at least not Israeli alone.

I'm more than aware of this, LOTP. A sweetheart of mine used to work at Addington Laboratories along with some members of the Old Crows. Let's just say that their stories were rather "amusing".

Posted by Zenster">Zenster 2007-10-06 22:55|| 2007-10-06 22:55|| Front Page Top

#12 I'd settle for them fearing us.

As our revered and fearless leader so aptly puts it, "Oderint Dum Metuant".

Posted by Zenster">Zenster 2007-10-06 22:58|| 2007-10-06 22:58|| Front Page Top

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