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US reportedly sends F-22 jets to join South Korea drills
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Posted on 03/31/2013 4:58:51 PM PDT by Sub-Driver

US reportedly sends F-22 jets to join South Korea drills

Published March 31, 2013

| FoxNews.com

The United States has reportedly sent F-22 stealth fighter jets to South Korea to join Seoul forces in military drills as North Korea warns the Korean Peninsula has entered "a state of war."

The F-22 Raptors were deployed to Osan Air Base in South Korea from Japan on Sunday to support ongoing U.S.-South Korean military drills, Reuters reports.

North Korea has increased its threatening rhetoric in recent weeks, including vowing to launch a nuclear strike on Washington. In a statement released Sunday, U.S. military in South Korea urged North Korea to restrain itself.

"(North Korea) will achieve nothing by threats or provocations, which will only further isolate North Korea and undermine international efforts to ensure peace and stability in Northeast Asia," the statement said.

Meanwhile, North Korea said Saturday its armed forces, "will blow up U.S. bases for aggression in its mainland and in the Pacific operational theatres including Hawaii and Guam."

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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Front Page News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: f22; korea; northkorea; southkorea
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To: ctdonath2

China does not want US troops on its border.
The PRC will prevent that at all costs.


21 posted on 03/31/2013 6:47:49 PM PDT by Eric in the Ozarks (NRA Life Member)
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To: ctdonath2

North Korea’s people are starving, so a couple weeks more sword rattling, we wil go over and promise them 856 gazallion of foreign aid, including food. Then they will love us,


22 posted on 03/31/2013 6:53:00 PM PDT by BooBoo1000 (Some times I wake up grumpy,,, other times I just let her sleep.)
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To: Sub-Driver
Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel.

This Kenyan Chappie presently recumbent in the WH is dying to become our first gay wartime President. Think of the photo ops. As with everything else the administration does, this war fever is a "Wag the Dog" distraction.

23 posted on 03/31/2013 7:07:12 PM PDT by Kenny Bunk (The Obama Molecule: Teflon binds with Melanin = No Criminal Charges Stick)
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To: Squantos
But that would mean I take fat boy Kim seriously.....

One of the problems with nuts, they just might try to do what they say they will.

24 posted on 03/31/2013 8:46:18 PM PDT by Smokin' Joe (How often God must weep at humans' folly. Stand fast. God knows what He is doing)
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To: driftdiver

Osan has a Chili’s now.


25 posted on 03/31/2013 11:02:14 PM PDT by Domalais
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To: Sub-Driver

Are theses the same F-22’s that Obama ended the program for?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mFZvEHZd3Dw

Boy I sure hope we don’t run out...


26 posted on 03/31/2013 11:58:31 PM PDT by Monorprise (`)
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To: Sub-Driver

I wonder if this NORK stuff has been orchestrated to see if we would deploy the F 22 and B2 and give the ChiComs an up close and personal look at the platforms in operation.


27 posted on 04/01/2013 8:24:36 AM PDT by xkaydet65
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To: ProtectOurFreedom
North Korea's defense in 1950 was collapsing until the Chinese entered the war. I doubt that the Chinese will support North Korean aggression this time. However, the Chinese will vigorously oppose a unified Korea allied with the US. The best we can hope for with NK is a capitalist, non-aggressive state like present-day Vietnam.
28 posted on 04/01/2013 11:04:21 AM PDT by riverdawg
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To: DJ Frisat
and everybody in the world knows he doesn’t have the the will or the balls to use it effectively.

As I recall GW swore that the NorKs would not be allowed to get Nukes, and gave them billions to make sure they didn’t go Nuke.

29 posted on 04/01/2013 11:18:15 AM PDT by itsahoot (It is not so much that history repeats, but that human nature does not change.)
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To: ProtectOurFreedom
Just like they did in 1950?

We don't have a MacArthur any more.

30 posted on 04/01/2013 11:19:33 AM PDT by itsahoot (It is not so much that history repeats, but that human nature does not change.)
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To: Sub-Driver

F-22s, eh? How many of those units have we bought, anyway? 6-7?


31 posted on 04/02/2013 11:10:30 AM PDT by Kenny Bunk (The Obama Molecule: Teflon binds with Melanin = No Criminal Charges Stick)
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