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Nothing has officially been said. I remember hearing the pilot say it in a video that was released.
But in the video where he was executed he said it was an antiaircraft weapon.
if he has an AK47 pointed at his head and they've told him to say they shot him down to make them look good, he's going to say they shot him down.
originally posted by: jaws1975
a reply to: Zaphod58
Nothing has officially been said. I remember hearing the pilot say it in a video that was released.
But in the video where he was executed he said it was an antiaircraft weapon.
You don't think it's fishy that the pilot changed his story? You don't think it's unusual that Jordan has not made an official statement on how the pilot was brought down in over a month's time?
originally posted by: TechniXcality
a reply to: CharlieSpeirs
Charlie, in principal I don't disagree with you. Everything should be evaluated on its own merit fair enough. However the u.s cannot reasonably be omnipresent and omnipotent yet too stupid to cover its tracks. There is an inherent contradiction. That's my personal opinion
then why does it happen so often?
originally posted by: infolurker
originally posted by: TechniXcality
a reply to: thesmokingman
Has it occurred to you America doesn't need to fly a false flag, to meet its objectives?
And YOU win the prize for the statement of the year in my opinion.
or it could be to keep the middle east in a perpetual state of war and disorder because if peace fell over the region and, god forbid, they started cooperating or formed some kind of union that actually worked unlike the Arab league, they would be a force to reckoned with. And control large swaths of the planet's oil.
originally posted by: CharlieSpeirs
So hypothetically...
What if the plan is to Arm ISIS to the hilt for a regional takeover... Secretly...
Which gives way to Nuke/Bomb as much of Iraq as possible without the repercussions of civillians... Publicly...
I mean no one on Earth right now seems to be behind a Scorched Earth policy of Iraq because there is innocent people living there/fighting ISIS...
If ISIS "convert" & kill all opposition, say a 5 year plan (estimate)...
Then once the entire Country is ISIS a Nuke or Scorched Earth will be much easier for people to accept...
Bear in mind that I don't think that the reason for this is just to kill Iraqis...
But maybe it's been postulated that the vacuum has become unbeatable...
That if ISIS are defeated someone else will just take their place...
That the escalation in Iraq cannot be stopped without literally bombing the whole Country...
What would be make it easier for the people in charge (not just the US, but UK, Saudi, Israel, Russia, China etc) to sleep at night?...
Just Scorch Iraq now with men, women & children as further "collateral damage"?
Or intentionally let ISIS take control because it's inevitable anyways and then kaboom?
Hypothetically...
They also took months to release the preliminary report and the final report will take at least a year. Accusations do not a report make.