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The Northerner

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Tue Dec 20, 2011, 05:15 PM Dec 2011

Has the Iran war begun? [View all]

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The U.S. government lost a spy drone over Iran. Is it part of an ongoing covert war?

Either Iranian forces shot it down or it fell out of the sky. We may never know which, but now the Obama administration wants it back. Iran says no.

This is not analogous to kids who accidentally throw a baseball into a neighbor’s yard and ask for it back. The U.S. has been making war sounds in Iran’s direction for years, and these belligerent noises have grown louder.

While there are grounds for believing the U.S. military does not want to attack Iran, which is far larger and more populous than Iraq and would require a long, bloody involvement throughout the region, President Obama and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton insist that “all options are on the table.”

Read more: http://www.connectsavannah.com/news/article/105414/

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