BBC video report of helicopter crash

[SoCalDem]

This is the first real video I have seen so far.. CNN is more interested in the McDonald murder & Laci.. God knows what MSRNC is re-running, and I refuse to watch Faux.. Maybe there is something worth seeing here


http://news.bbc.co.uk/broadband/console/news/newsid_3234000/3234595.stm

[opihimoimoi]

1. Bummers bummers. This is bad news for our boys, the families, and

America.

The poor troopers were coming home for R&R. Double Damn.

[dArKeR]

2. The interviewee said, 'We know large numbers of foreign fighters

are coming into Iraq bringing their weapons.'

I guess I missed that being published as 100% in the Whore Media.

[prolesunited]

4. This is the "fruit" of their flypaper strategy

Andrew Sullivan touted the wisdom of this philosophy in his blog.

If the terrorists leave us alone in Iraq, fine, he said. But if they come and get us, even better. Far more advantageous to fight terror using trained soldiers in Iraq than trying to defend civilians in New York or London. "Think of it as a flytrap," he ventured. Iraq would not simply be a test-case for Muslim democracy; it would be the first stage in a real and aggressive war against the terrorists and their sponsors in Ryadh and Damascus and Tehran. Operation Flytrap had been born.
<snip>

He has to tell the American people that more violence in Iraq may not in some circumstances be a bad thing. It may be a sign that we are flushing out terror and confronting it, rather than passively waiting for it to attack again. He has to remind people that this war is far from over, that the mission is still very much unaccomplished, and that this is not Vietnam.
http://www.andrewsullivan.com/main_article.php?artnum=20030906

I would like him to be forced to explain this to the families of the troops who were just killed.

[DoYouEverWonder]

6. This is Rummie's line of bullshit

This is not the way terroism works.

Yes, there will be more terrorism in Iraq but there will also be more terrorists every where else and there have been numerous terrorists attacks outside of Iraq since 9-11. No sorry, no matter how they want to spin this, the world is a much more dangerous place as a result of their failed policies.

[JNelson6563]

3. horrifying

truly horrifying.

Julie

[VolcanoJen]

5. Locking... LBN thread consolidation

Let's keep our discussion of today's tragic events consolidated into one LBN thread, this one:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=102&topic_id=195719&mesg_id=195719

SoCalDem, I included a link to this post in the above thread, so that everyone interested in the video could see it.

It's amazing to me that CNN chose to discuss the Laci trial while this story was breaking. Thanks very much for keeping an eye on the BBC site for us.

VolcanoJen
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