Reply #11: Your time line is incomplete [View All]

Of course, this kind always is. Do us MP's a favor, and don't forget the 4 MP's who were ambushed and killed in Somalia on Aug 7, 1993. The day I enlisted incidentally.

I am not trying to defend the 1st President Bush here, I agree he got us into this mess. But it is simple fact the President Clinton DID expand our mission there, and his Sec Def refused to provide the support requested by ground commanders, and "Black Hawk Down" happened.

The thing that has always made me so angry about this incident was there was a precursor. Those 4 MP's I mentioned above, and still no one was on the ball. Of course I don't judge the Clinton administration based on this screw-up. Bush's mistakes are huge in comparison. They should have studied Somalia and perhaps some of the current mistakes could have been prevented.

I couldn't even watch it for the 1st two years it came out, was just too personal.

Watch it from an MP's perspective--not one mention of the MP's who died first, like BHD just happened out of the blue with no warning. What a horrible waste of life. I hate this damned movie. It took me 4 hours to watch it. I kept having to walk away. Not the thing to try to watch while you're husband is deployed anyway.