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SCVDem

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3. I'm short on time, but

Reply to IsItJustMe (Original post)

Wed Nov 25, 2015, 01:50 AM

Nov 2015

Russia has numbers, not quality. Do you think a friendly would have been shot down by a 16?

As a vet I find it offensive that the ground forces shot helpless pilots in a harness. That is so wrong.

Charges should be brought, or a quick field justice.

You just don't do that! They could have been ours!

There is no Geneva Convention in place here. Do the Republican hawks realize what happens to prisoners?

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Putin has been extremely busy invading sovereign countries air space [View all] IsItJustMe Nov 2015 OP

. jberryhill Nov 2015 #1

In the UK too. StrayKat Nov 2015 #2

I'm short on time, but SCVDem Nov 2015 #3

Yes, lots of new lows. IsItJustMe Nov 2015 #6

+1. bemildred Nov 2015 #7

No a "friendly" would not have been shot down TexasProgresive Nov 2015 #8

You live in a glass house nationalize the fed Nov 2015 #4

yep 840high Nov 2015 #5

Glass houses is right. But anything to further the red-baiting Russophobia here polly7 Nov 2015 #9

Remember 1983 Mendocino Nov 2015 #10

And if our air defense capablities had been up to snuff 09/11/2001 TexasProgresive Nov 2015 #11