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rsmith6621 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-06-11 09:01 AM
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31 Die In Helicopter Shot Down In Afghanistan.....25 Navy Seals.
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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Frustratedlady Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore 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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coalition_unwilling Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore 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
already died will have died in vain :sarcasm:
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otohara Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-06-11 09:11 AM
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3. Horrible News - Condolences
Edited on Sat Aug-06-11 09:12 AM by otohara
to all the families
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thewiseguy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore 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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NightWatcher Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-06-11 09:24 AM
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5. Was this a lucky shot or payback to the Seal Team Six?
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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thewiseguy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-06-11 09:31 AM
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6. I do not think the Seal Team 6 was involved
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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RamboLiberal Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-06-11 11:47 AM
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21. AP reports it was SEAL Team 6 members
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Tierra_y_Libertad Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore 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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jtrockville Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-06-11 09:46 AM
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8. Oh how tragic. Peace to their families.
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daa Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-06-11 09:56 AM
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9. Crashing helicopters in the desert cost President Carter
his job and it didn't have 25 Seals onboard. Wow.
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seabeyond Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore 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
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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judgegblue Donating Member (107 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-06-11 10:03 AM
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11. Why are we still there?
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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seabeyond Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore 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
even more than what it was and we dont know how to say, oh well, and walk.
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Desertrose Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-06-11 10:07 AM
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14. Also there is still $$ to be made there
for the private contractors...my my..all those minerals,too.
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Desertrose Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-06-11 10:05 AM
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13. OUT....NOW.
Enough already.
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undeterred Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-06-11 10:48 AM
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15. So incredibly sad.
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watercolors Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-06-11 10:53 AM
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16. My heart dropped this morning when I heard news,
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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slipslidingaway Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-06-11 11:01 AM
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17. :((( nt
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Major Hogwash Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-06-11 11:05 AM
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18. What is the exit strategy in Afghanistan now?
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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DavidDvorkin Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-06-11 11:38 AM
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19. I think 38 died.
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Arugula Latte Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-06-11 11:42 AM
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20. More lives wasted, for what?
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