Breaking: http://news.xinhuanet.com/...
"Iran shoots down U.S. spy drone amid growing military pressure"
Sorry for the "Breaking" headline, and I hope no one else has blogged this. (I'll check after I post.) Now I don't want to sound paranoid, but these parallels to Vietnam are getting a little eerie. Listen to this interesting tidbit:
The aircraft was brought down when it was trying to cross the borders "during the last few days," Seyed Nezam Mola Hoveizeh, a member of the parliament, was quoted by the local Fars News Agency as saying.
So this wasn't Iranian aggression, shooting a US plane over Iraqi airspace. Instead, the US drone had intruded upon Iranian airspace. What was a US airplane doing over Iran? Did they really think the Iranians wouldn't try to shoot it down? I hope this isn't an excuse to attack Iran, a country that the CIA says is 10 full years from developing nuclear weapons. Oy vey!
UPDATE: Wow, I'm recommended! Thanks everyone.