rsmith6621
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Sat Aug-06-11 09:01 AM
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31 Die In Helicopter Shot Down In Afghanistan.....25 Navy Seals. |
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Edited on Sat Aug-06-11 09:02 AM by rsmith6621
........Hey Mr. President ....get us OUT of there NOW along with Iraq..... We cannot afford the cost not the lives lost.
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Sat Aug-06-11 09:05 AM
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1. I am just sick about this. We MUST get out NOW! EOM |
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Sat Aug-06-11 09:07 AM
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2. But, but, but . . . we have to stay in Afghanistan or those who have |
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already died will have died in vain :sarcasm:
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Sat Aug-06-11 09:11 AM
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3. Horrible News - Condolences |
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Edited on Sat Aug-06-11 09:12 AM by otohara
to all the families
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Sat Aug-06-11 09:15 AM
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4. 25 Navy seals? This is a horrible loss and a huge blow... |
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Sat Aug-06-11 09:24 AM
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5. Was this a lucky shot or payback to the Seal Team Six? |
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This just doesn't seem very random. The Afghans have not had good luck shooting choppers out of the sky. I hate that I go zero to paranoid, but everything about this non-war stinks.
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Sat Aug-06-11 09:31 AM
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6. I do not think the Seal Team 6 was involved |
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There were also Afghan Special forces on the copter which means the target on the ground that they were going after was not very high value. I doubt it that the Americans would share intelligence information with Afghans with respect to very high value targets.
Seal 6 is an elite and special team of the US Navy Seals. So I would not think they would be sent to missions that do not involve very high value targets.
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Sat Aug-06-11 11:47 AM
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21. AP reports it was SEAL Team 6 members |
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Sat Aug-06-11 09:46 AM
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7. More cannon-fodder sacrificed in a lost war fought for PR. |
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Sat Aug-06-11 09:46 AM
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8. Oh how tragic. Peace to their families. |
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Sat Aug-06-11 09:56 AM
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9. Crashing helicopters in the desert cost President Carter |
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his job and it didn't have 25 Seals onboard. Wow.
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Sat Aug-06-11 09:58 AM
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10. i have a cousin that is a seal and has been in afghanistan |
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never met him. not close to that family. but they have had it rough lately. i hope this is not more bad in their life.
so sad. agree with op
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Sat Aug-06-11 10:03 AM
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11. Why are we still there? |
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Are we afraid that the Taliban we aim one of their nuclear missiles at us? Or that if we don't fight them over there, we will have to fight them on our shores when their fleet lands on the shores of the east coast?
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Sat Aug-06-11 10:05 AM
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12. personally i think it is because we destroyed and fucked up their country |
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even more than what it was and we dont know how to say, oh well, and walk.
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Sat Aug-06-11 10:07 AM
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14. Also there is still $$ to be made there |
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for the private contractors...my my..all those minerals,too.
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Sat Aug-06-11 10:05 AM
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Sat Aug-06-11 10:48 AM
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Sat Aug-06-11 10:53 AM
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16. My heart dropped this morning when I heard news, |
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our grandson arrived there last week. His second tour in the sand box, this time for only 6 months. It will be along & nervous time for us, he is AF. I want to see us out, but he feels there are making progress with tier agender.
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Sat Aug-06-11 11:01 AM
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Sat Aug-06-11 11:05 AM
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18. What is the exit strategy in Afghanistan now? |
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Edited on Sat Aug-06-11 11:05 AM by Major Hogwash
To wait another 20 years before we look for the exit??
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Sat Aug-06-11 11:42 AM
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20. More lives wasted, for what? |
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