Submitted by Dave Levy, Aug 18, 2007 12:29

As someone who has watched the M.E. and Iraqi situation deteriorate substantially these past years, it would not surprise me if the strategic bomber flights are really meant as a warning to anyone attacking, you guess it, Syria or Iran?

Is it coincidental that so soon after the US announced over 50 billion in military aid to Egypt, Saudi Arabia and Israel, Russia decided these flights were very past due?

We must remember that during the 1973 Yom Kippur War, the US called a Defcon 3 alert., and moved several carrier groups into the Med. Russia backed down from it's threat to send troops, which were being loaded on Russian troop transports, to intervene.

So, Russia it appears is up to it's usual mischief.

I doubt Russia thinks it can take on our anti-aircraft missiles and very sophisticated jet fighter planes.

But Israel is another matter for it's former intelligence operative.

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