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The commander of the country's long-range strategic bombers, Lieutenant General Igor Khvorov, said the U.S. Air Force is now investigating why its military was unable to detect the Russian bombers.

What would the Russian motivation be to tell us if they had violated our airspace/ADIZ? Because they want to help us "improve our security"? They have far better reasons not to tell us: from a diplomatic point of view, it's would be kind of "provocative"; from a strategic military point of view, they might want to save this information for a rainy day.

IMO the Russians may have closed to within the absolute maximum range of their cruise missiles at a time when atmospheric anomalies could have interfered with our early warning radars. Still, why they would publicly admit it is mind-boggling.

The only reason at this time to tell this story of air space incursion, mind you IF the Russian story is true, would be to take advantage of the very poor public support ratings for the President. The Russians, especially Putin, are not fans of the President. They might use this to try and embarrass Bush in the American media.

Think of the sound bites from Pelosie, Kennedy, Ried, et al:
"Our forces are stretched sooooo thin by this illeagle war, that we could not defend ourselves from a HUGE attack across the pole. Bush should be impeached!"

This story is pure media manipulation, against the President.