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To: right-wing agnostic

In 1988 the USS Vincennes, a guided missile cruiser, entered Iranian territorial waters and spotted an aircraft that it thought was an Iranian F-14 fighter plane. However, it was actually a civilian Iran Air Airbus A300, flying over Iran’s territorial waters on its regular route from Tehran to Dubai in the United Arab Emirates. The Vincennes fired a surface-to-air missile that destroyed the plane, killing all 290 onboard. Under a 1996 agreement at the International Court of Justice, the U.S. agreed to pay Iran $61.8 million.

Have Russia pay a fine of $61.8 million. Problem solved.


2 posted on 07/22/2014 4:44:12 AM PDT by satan (The tree of liberty is dying in the drought.)
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To: satan

“Have Russia pay a fine of $61.8 million. Problem solved.”

With http://www.usinflationcalculator.com/ that would be $94 today


4 posted on 07/22/2014 4:50:08 AM PDT by AdmSmith (GCTGATATGTCTATGATTACTCAT)
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To: satan

wrong

on so many levels

have you been reading your history on Huffington Post?


8 posted on 07/22/2014 5:06:25 AM PDT by silverleaf (Age takes a toll: Please have exact change)
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To: satan
A quick question on your moral equivalency:

If a bank robber accidentally kills a teller, while shooting at the police, is that the same thing as a policeman who accidentally shoots a teller, while shooting at a bank robber?

I tend to think the underlying motivations matter, and I blame the bank robber for the teller's death in both scenarios.

21 posted on 07/22/2014 6:12:27 AM PDT by SampleMan (Feral Humans are the refuse of socialism.)
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