I an impressed, it appears to have landed on it’s own intelligence.

Uhhh, who the hell said we could fly drones there? Do we own Iran? Is China flying drones over our heads.

America has no right to touch Iran. 

The entire situation quite a complicated mess.  A wrong turn could greet Paul with his best chance.

“Is China flying drones over our heads.”

Probably.

They don’t need to, they use the internet.

Who’s touching, Spotty?  Let’s vaporize the bastards.  Are you friendly towards cockroaches?

God Bless our Nobel Peace Prize winning President Obama.  First he initiated an undeclared, unauthorized war in Libya, then he keeps Gitmo open, then he signs into law the executive branch’s authority to arrest American Citizens without the headache of due process of law, then he stops the terror of waterboarding, and now just drops bombs on top of their heads from a drone in Pakistan, then he sells guns to drug cartels in Mexico, and is now spying on Iran, and losing billion dollar drones in the process.

Not judging any of the above as bad – but it makes you wonder what all of the fuss was about when Bush was president.  I mean – these guys are pretty much the same – right? 

The Iranians have a completely intact high tech drone.

Nice going.  

The Persians are a fine people.  They suffer under a repressive regime.  

Uhhh, I don’t call all citizens of any country cockroaches… Clearly you’re someone who hasn’t done any research and don’t understand what actual Iranians are like.. not surprised, you are conservative probably, or you might be calling yourself independent pretending you care about fiscal responsibility.

Either way, America can’t afford war, dummy.

true…

There was a media report recently that described that very capability of another Navy-based drone.  I suspect that if they’ve allowed that story to “leak”, that these drones have had that kind of ability for some period of time.

The question is:  Why wouldn’t you disable that ability when you have your drone flying over enemy-controlled ground-space?

In hindsight, that doesn’t seem to bright.

Obama can’t make decisions without the congress, I’m not sure what you’re getting at. Would you like him to start doing signing statements? Something tells me no…

Otherwise, he has to get approval from half of the house and senate when he wants something passed.

The congress is the problem in both situations because in Bush’s case, due to the post 9/11 fervor, they legalized everything and in Obama’s case, he can’t get both sides of the isle to agree. 

Bush had pretty much free reign to do what he wants, Obama’s hands are tied and he gets blamed for everything the congress makes impossible.

What? Obama decided on his own to involve us in Libya because France and Italy asked for help and went around congress. The Congress approved Iraq. What are you talking about?

Gitmo – he is commander in cheif, he could close that prison tommorow with the snap of his fingers.

Libya – he never asked Congress for permission to go in, as was done for both Iran and Iraq.  You cannot skirt the Constitution because it is too difficult to do it the right way. 

Unilaterally dropping bombs on the heads of “suspected terrorists” – what happened to due process of law.  I can’t imagine the furver if Bush had been doing the same.

The tenor of your statement is that because he can’t get Congress do get anything done, he has no other choice than to do whatever he wants.  What?  Are you insane?  

Obama is a great candidate who had a great platform to the sheep – “Bush was bad.  I’m not Bush.  I plan to do everything opposite of Bush.”  Well, guess what – he endorsed Bank bailouts, he extended the Bush tax cuts, he escallated the war in Afghanistan, constinued the drawdown in Iraq, kept Gitmo open, and began two new wars – one in Libya, one in Eqypt, and is now trying to start a new one in Iran.

This guy is way in over his head.   

I figured when they started bragging (last week?) that they actually had the drone…It only took an actual picture the make the story real.

Lovely. 

This does not bode well for the US.

That sucks. They should have created one of those mysterious blasts that have been occurring in Iran.

The Hell if the United States doesn’t have the right/responsibility to keep more than an eye on a proven enemy of the USA, actually the World would be a little more accurate. Every country should be at least flying drones over Iran. I don’t like the Big Brother status we have to put up with, but our “secluded” location gives us a better chance than most to oppose invasions, and also as the Fat Cats in Washington are finding out when the borders are fully secured we’ll be in better shape to keep what we have under our control until it’s needed. The United States may have more exposed borders than most countries, but nobody has them monitored as well as they are working on, and 9/11 showed that the work has just begun.
Maybe the fact that Iran’s Saddam Hussein was killing anybody and everybody he didn’t like caused the whole world to take a step back and wonder who the Hell Reagan {the demented cowboy} sold {gave} all those weapons to. The answer is simple a madman looking to take over as much of the world as his oil money would buy him {sounds like Bi Laden too}, and when he needed more he invaded neighboring countries and used theirs.
Iran is working it’s ass off trying to produce nuclear weapons if that isn’t EVERYBODIES business I don’t know what is!!?
What countries are NOT GUNNING for what the USA has, it’s just some have learned to do it diplomatically; others are still living in the stone age with better weapons.

Cost us Billions to develop and produce now Iran, China and everyone else can reverse engineer this baby for chump change.  Talk about manna from heaven :O

More of your tax dollars given away by the billions…

The US must learn to “do unto others as you would like them to do unto you”. How would the US like if Iran had drones spying on them ..

Does Iran have the right to develope nukes, or fund hezbolla, or the shia insurgents in Iraq,……

We live in a harsh world snow spot, just watch the KArdashians and leave this stuff to the adults

We have Jimmy Carter to thank for that.

Imagine if the whole thing was done intentially by the US, and when the Iranians opened the thing up, there was a pulled pork sandwich from Slappy’s BBQ pit wrapped in a picture of Obama mooning them inside the drone.

If you wish to look at causality that simply.

Nice job, Obama. Nice job.

Hey, we killed Bin Laden!!!!!!!

So, now you give the credit to Obama and not the troops?

I see how it is

Dissolution of Medicare > missing drone

LOL

Clearly a Ron Paul fan

LOL

you can’t see anything w/marks nuts in your mouth

I thought you were an Iranian drone…

Another gift from the closet muslim.

Actually, Bush didn’t do a lot of those things mentioned. It’s all pretty much on BO now.

What the hell were you doing when Pelosi and Reid were running the Congress?

You don’t really know what you are talking about.

FYI, the Commander in Chief does not need Congressional permission to deploy the US military for the first 90 days of conflict; see the War Powers Act.

You are truly delusional.

The United States Government, in particular Intelligence and Military (Pentagon) are subjected to thousands of hack attacks from outside the US every year. The majority are from sources in China, Russia, and North Korea.

Maybe it will explosively self destruct if not disassembled properly.

Agreed. This is just crappy news period. 

It will be interesting to eventually learn why they couldn’t destroy it… You’d think they could have enacted a plan to do that very quickly…

What good would a drone be if it didn’t have the abilty to gather sensitive data?  Someone had to have had to interfere with the controls of it – like cyber interference, in order for it to land without crashing.

Are you the same one bitching and moaning about Iran and whether they have developed nuclear capabiliities?  If we don’t have eyes on the ground to detect their military and scientific development of weapons, we use the drones to spy.  Simple as that.

Don’t forget that Gitmo had to stay open because the Republicans didn’t want any of the prisoners “in the United States”.  When you have a group who hate their country like the republicans obviously do, then you have to make do.  Someday they will get theirs and that day will be in November 2012.

Bush had free reign because he had a Republican congress for 6 years.  They didn’t have to have anyone agree.  Then, when the democrats took over congress in 2007, they were nice and worked across the isle with the anti-American poops.

Don’t forget it wasn’t the end of the earth when the Russians shot down the Gary Powers U2 either.

What do you mean “it cost us billions to develop”?????  Show me.  The company that designed and produced those drones did not “pay billions to develop” it.

After they were lied to by the Bush administration and their “cherry picked intelligence”.

Did you forget that George W Bush was president when a fully loaded spy plane was downed by the Chinese?

Short memory?

We will have to go to war with Iran sooner or later. We can not afford not to do something about this country. Iranians can change the government there if they would unite. The leaders of that country are much worse than cockroaches. Maybe that is specific enough for you. If no, go back on your meds.

It is time to give you elementary education. The Dems have controlled Congress since 2007. Obama had both houses for his first two years. He could get anything he wanted i.e. Obamacare for example. Blaming Congress is a ruse for his inability. If ignorance was a disability, you would qualify for a full pension just like Obama.

Perhaps you should go back to the third grade and start over…..If you can read, please explain this much of this took place pre-Bush. Either get informed or go back on your meds.  http://www.reasons-for-war-with-iraq.info/

I guess you missed the part where Lipless Mitch McConnell and the GOP voted in lockstep to block and filibuster nearly everything, regardless of it effect on the country.

How are things on Bizarro Earth, lad?

Why do conservatives hate our military so much?

Why do you hate America so much?

It’s no use trying – they can’t remember anything that happened pre-2009.

You’ll have to tell me, I’m not a liberal and I live in a very real world.

Um…Iran Contra? Yeah, trading arms to Iran for hostages, only a wuss like Jimmy Carter would have done that! Oh wait…

You’ve missed the point:  These third generation drones fly themselves, including taking off and landing – they do it all themselves, autonomously.  Predator and Global Hawk drones are physically piloted by someone from a remote-operation center.

You mean like Obamacare and the Stimilus. Your ignorance is again showing. You are evidently a result of our great public education.

Probably because they immediately surrounded it with hundreds of children.  In the video it looks like it’s being kept in a school gymnasium.