Russia Plans Long-Range Bomber Flights Near U.S. Shores
Source: CNN
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Russia plans to send long-range bombers to patrol the Gulf of Mexico and the Caribbean, the nation's defense minister said, in what may be Moscow's latest provocative maneuver.
The patrols would bring the flights close to the United States' territorial waters.
Russia has been on a roll with a series of international provocations, ranging from brazen kidnappings to increased aerial operations. In September, the United States intercepted six Russian planes, including fighter jets and tankers, in airspace near Alaska, officials said.
Read more: http://www.cnn.com/2014/11/13/world/europe/russia-bombers-plan/index.html?hpt=hp_t1
This is a sabre-rattling announcement from Russia, but it hasn't happened yet. At this very moment, the Right Wing-o-verse is already abuzz with the "fact" that Russian planes area ALREADY patrolling our coastlines... And that Obama isn't doing anything about it.
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Save us, oh Hero Of Heros!
Must be hell to have the enemy flying their bombs overhead, never knowing when your kids might attract attention, a reason to blow their little dark-eyed heads into pieces, believing they MUST be enemies because they are playing in the mud next to the road.
Kinda interesting - our interception technology isn't all that great, so bombers could have a bomb on the way down to us by the time one of our planes shoots.
Might just want to take a moment to hug the family, pet the dog. It might all be over in just a few seconds, or maybe there will be a call, the school and all the kids are gone.
Welcome to the world we have been bringing others for a long, long time. 
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The minimum count of 178 child deaths is far beyond any acknowledged count of civilian deaths from U.S. drone strikes by the U.S. government. John Brennan, President Obama’s top counterterrorism adviser, has called civilian casualties as a result of the CIA’s secretive drone policy “exceedingly rare.”[3] Brennan said in August 2011, “Fortunately, for more than a year, due to our discretion and precision, the U.S. government has not found credible evidence of collateral deaths resulting from U.S. counterterrorism operations outside of Afghanistan or Iraq.”[4] Though from August 2010 through August 2011, TBIJ documented at least 101 civilians, including 13 children, were killed by drone strikes. Brennan also said from August 2010 through April 2012, the U.S. “had no information about a single civilian being killed.”[5] TBIJ found that at least 107 civilians, including at least 16 children, were killed by strikes in that time. Finally, in January 2012, President Obama — acknowledging the CIA’s drone program for the first time — said strikes do not cause large amounts of civilian casualties.[6] TBIJ finds that at the time of Obama’s statement, at least 284 civilians, and at least 62 children, had died from strikes since he came into office in January 2009. Similar statements downplaying the amount of civilian casualties have been made numerous times by unnamed government sources, according to Living Under Drones.[7]
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http://pakistanthinktank.org/children-killed-in-drone-attacks-in-pakistan
Please, a freaking upgraded B-29 with swept back wings and turbo-props...not very hi tech.. lol
I think we can handle it...
