Posted on 04/27/2012 5:15:43 PM PDT by edpc
America's most sophisticated stealth jet fighters have been quietly deployed to an allied base less than 200 miles from Iran's mainland, according to an industry report, but the Air Force adamantly denied the jets' presence is a threat to the Middle East nation.
Multiple stealth F-22 Raptors, which have never been combat-tested, are in hangars at the United Arab Emirates' Al Dafra Air Base, just a short hop over the Persian Gulf from Iran's southern border, the trade publication Aviation Week reported.
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Between THE Lines.....
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Maybe he’ll nuke a iran...but it will go “unexpectadly” awry and land in Jerusalum. THE mother of all WTF foreign policy moves by the great leader, nobama.
It would be difficult to constrain that tail section to trillions of Dollars. IMO.
Well it did work, apparently.
“quietly deployed”?
So much for secretizim. When will this government and country ever learn to keep their mouths shut? Remember when we used to call the No. Viet’s and tell them we were coming to bomb them and at what time, etc?
The only rational reason is (2) but it is misstated. The move is the result of a consensus within the coalition.
The coalition includes all of the GCC, the Gulf Cooperation Council.There is a mutual need to deter the regional influence in Iran.
Although it is not realized by many here and will never be omitted by some, the growth of the GCC is steady and increasing to the point that the UAE is a modern center of world trade. It is the western terminus for many many multinational businesses and has the best distribution centers money can buy.
With Europe dying, the Asian/Pacific rim are the future of trade and growth. The GCC and especially the UAE are poised to be a major factor in that regional growth. Outside China, Dubai and Singapore are the portals for finance and trade that will have tremendous prosperity and growth.
No doubt the MFer would love to do that for his “friends”, I would put my money on the Generals would find a way to not do it.
His muslim brotherhood has no use for Iran, nobama is muslim brotherhood to the core. He’s happy to not do much as Iran has been a good distraction, but re-election must be won, so bye bye Iran.
What, no GPS coordinates of the hangers they are in? How about the guards' patrolling schedule? Why the {expletive} wouldn't you keep this under your hat?
Is someone humongously stupid, a traitor, or putting out disinformation?
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