31 marines killed today?

[King Coal]

This is a fucking obscene outrage.

[fertilizeonarbusto]

1. Great ain't it? (fury)

Have they figured out whether it was shot down or an accident yet?

[elehhhhna]

5. probably but we'll never know. (as if it's any of our business)

[babylonsister]

9. I've heard weather related, but am

at the point where I'm skeptical about whatever is reported vs. the truth.

[elehhhhna]

11. Bush can't decide weather to lie about it or pretend it didn't happen

[GetTheRightVote]

2. Bring the Troops Home Now !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

:kick:

Did they not see us in DC ???

[blueknight]

3. so sad...

i have two sons draft age, and i swear, i will move them to canada before i would let them get sent off to die for these rotten bastards in d.c.

[underpants]

4. I have a bad feeling about this

I hope and pray that I am wrong.

[King Coal]

7. When they say that it is not immediately known if they crashed or were

shot down, it is usually the latter.

[59millionmorons]

6. Meanwhile

CNN does its 20 piece of the day about the snow in the northeast.

[BOHICA06]

8. Alway hated riding the Big Copters

When they go down, not matter the cause, they take a bunch with them.

[oc2002]

10. probably shot down, 2/3 of all choper down by Iraqi resistance.

acording to Nytime article.

[Bush on crack]

12. prayer for Marines

Lord I pray for these young Marines, and ask you to lift them and their families. Please allow for this war to end and return the military safely to their families. In the name of Jesus, amen!

[H2O Man]

13. 31 in the helicopter

I believe there may be as many as 5 others elsewhere.

It's time to make the war the #1 issue in America. We need to put a stop to the violence and the madness. It is obvious that Bush/Cheney lack the moral capacity to stop the cycle of death and destruction.

We need to begin massive non-violent protests, which create the tension that King spoke of, in order to stop the war.

[HughBeaumont]

14. 36, including the five just announced.

But hey, at least gay people can't get married and the Evangelicals will control every aspect of our lives. That's all that matters.

If anything, ANYthing happens to my friend or the wife's cousin when they have to go over there come March, so much as a loss of a DIGIT, every Republican that supports this simian asshole, his snarling pile of shit VP, that gap-toothed jackass apologist and the rest of his warmongering junta is my enemy for life. Forgive and forget, MY ASS. FUCK this useless and costly war.

[Hubert Flottz]

15. Check this out:::::

Military May Face Shortage Of Troops

http://www.military.com/NewsContent/0,13319,FL_shortage_012405,00.html?ESRC=army.nl

Morality?

[RPM]

16. do you believe in helicopter crashes?

I don't. I think the army waits for a group of 6-30 soldiers to be killed, finds a helocopter that is damaged beyond repair, topples it over and sets it ablaze and calls it a crash. Much more palatable to the American public than 30 soldiers KIA.

Reallytho' - there seems to be an awful lot of helicopter crashes; More than there are around hospitals where copters take off and land each day.

Or is a "crash" really a shootdown?

:tinfoilhat: