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- Obama Wants His Drone Back (ZeroHedge, Dec. 13, 2011):
Several days after being humiliated by Iran which either shot down a EQ-170 drone, or worse, hacked into its navigation system and landed it, Obama has decided to double down, and stick the other foot in his mouth. As ABC reports in connection with Obama’s handling of this embarrassing predicament, “”We’ve asked for it back. We’ll see how the Iranians respond,” Obama said at a news conference. Obama said he wouldn’t comment further “on intelligence matters that are classified.” Great, the only problem is Iran will never return it, as they have already indicated, for the simple reason that it has already been reverse engineered 5 ways from Sunday somewhere deep in the bowels of one of China’s unpopulated cities, which just doubles as a very populated military intelligence base. The only good news is that within 6-9 months every American will be able to buy a personal stealth drone for a new low, low price at their friendly neighborhood Wal-Mart. Our only concern is whether FoxConn will be able to handle the supply of both iPads and straight for re-export drones: it would be ironic if this massive military embarrassment ends up as being a catalyst to short Apple.
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Imagine Iran would order an airstrike on the US to destroy a captured Iranian drone.
Ouch.
Before:
- Iran Claims It’s Almost Done Decoding US CIA Drone
- Iran Shows Off Captured US Drone, Claims To Have Overridden Drone Flight Control Systems (Video)

Formal request: President Obama at Monday’s news conference with Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki
- ‘They’ll likely send the drone back in pieces’: Dick Cheney rips Obama for failing to act on downed spy plane (Daily Mail, Dec. 13, 2011):
- Dick Cheney says Barack Obama should have ordered an airstrike over Iran
- U.S. admits it does not hold out much hope for spy plane’s return
- Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad thanks Americans for ‘giving’ craft
The downing of a U.S. drone in Iran and its subsequent capture by the country’s military has been nothing but an embarrassment for the President Obama as he faces a tough re-election battle.
Former U.S. Vice-President Dick Cheney blasted Mr Obama for his soft approach in trying to get the surveillance plane back, insisting he should have ordered an airstrike over Iran instead.
He told CNN: ‘The right response would have been to go in immediately after it had gone down and destroy it.
‘You can do that from the air and, in effect, make it impossible for them to benefit from having captured that drone, but [Obama] asked nicely for them to return it, and they aren’t going to.’Mr Cheney added that the Iranians will likely send the drone back ‘in pieces after they’ve gotten all the intelligence they can out of it.’
The White House made the formal request to Iran yesterday for the drone’s return to U.S. forces.
Tags: Dick Cheney, Global News, Government, Iran, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Military, Obama administration, Politics, U.S.






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