Ten years ago: Mogadishu outrage puts Clinton in firing line

[Karmadillo]

Obviously, there are differences between the US operations in Somalia and Iraq, but it will be interesting to see how the media treats the Bush Administration regarding today's military losses.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,920935,00.html

The sight of an American soldier's bound corpse being dragged through the streets of Mogadishu by a cheering crowd and a videotape of a captured US pilot appeared to mark a turning point yesterday for the US intervention in Somalia.

The gruesome parade was a jolting reminder to Americans of the public mangling of US soldiers' bodies in Iran after Jimmy Carter's failed 1980 attempt to rescue the US embassy hostages in Tehran. It also recalled the 1983 lorry bomb which killed 241 marines in Beirut.

Cable News Network broadcast a videotape of a dishevelled and bloodied US helicopter pilot in captivity yesterday.

The videotape, which the network said was taken by a freelance Somali cameraman, showed Chief Warrant Officer Michael Durant identifying himself as the pilot of a US Blackhawk helicopter.

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[kalian]

1. So...

if some US soldiers' bodies are paraded AND SHOWN on national TV,
then Bush will be in trouble?
The fucker LIED about why he was invading Iraq...
He LIED about 9/11...
He LIED just about everything else...and he's still not in trouble?!

[StClone]

2. ...and Reagan's 254 lost soldier's...

Comparing the losses and in viewing the results it is clear to me under whom the WORST and most disastrous losses occurred.