Sad day - 14 Americans killed in 2 Afghan helicopter crashes

[slipslidingaway]

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091026/ap_on_re_as/as_afghanistan

:(

[RUMMYisFROSTED]

1. 7 years of sad.

:cry:

[slipslidingaway]

2. Very true - reminded of this thread that most seem to ignore ....

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=389&topic_id=6856683&mesg_id=6856683

"...According to the Iraqi Ministry of Labor and Social Affairs’ January 2008 Report, 4.5 million Iraqi children have been made orphans. Of these, only 459 orphans are in government care. I’ll say that again. Out of 4.5 million, only 459 children are in government care. 800 orphans at the time of this report were being held in Iraqi prisons, 100 of these in American prisons, charged as terrorists.

...In proportion to the US population of 310 million, this would mean the equivalent of 19.3 million US orphans. That’s the size of the combined populations, all ages, of our six biggest cities, New York, LA, Chicago, Houston, Phoenix, and Philadelphia, all rendered orphans..."


But the new business hotel being built in the fortified zone is moving along nicely.

:(

[Cha]

3. RIP Soldiers. :(

[midnight]

4. Bring them Home...

[elocs]

5. Right, because we don't have copter crashes here. n/t

[Flaneur]

8. Right, because we don't need to be in a war there. n/t

[zulchzulu]

6. WTF is the DEA doing in Afghanistan? Talk about a complete waste of resources...

The DEA is in Afghanistan trying to stop the drug trade in a country where the drug trade is HOW many in that country live. They grow pot. They grow poppies. We're there in a "war on drugs" and trying to stop the Afghan people from making money on their crops?

The Afghans have only been doing that for a couple thousand years...

What. A. Waste.

[slipslidingaway]

9. Agreed nt

[Norrin Radd]

7. RIP