US Helicopter Down in Iraq

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[RWR8189]

20 injured, no further info

[rintense]

Glad to hear Mike is ok, mystery...

[Mo1]

Thank goodness he is ok ... {{HUGS}}

Prayers to all aboard and their familys

[GoGophers]

That's why over 70 other nations are supporting our war in Iraq.

Seventy other countries are supporting our War on Terrorism. The number of countries supporting the war in Iraq is much smaller.

[Dave Elias]

"Something I'd like to see is the number of KIA/WIA on the enemys side"

Why? Do you think it is somehow relevant?

[expatguy]

"...GW destroyed our national credibility in the worlds eyes...[sic]"

You wanna know why the world is pissed off? I can tell you. I live outside of the USA.

They are pissed off because they can't buy Bush. They wonder if they are gonna be next on the hit list if they refuse to play ball, they realize that they have no choice and it is uncomfortable for them. They desperately want a Democrat in office that they can control.

You think I am joking? I'm not. Where I live in Malaysia the Prime Minister said it himself -

"...we need to make sure that in the next US election a president is elected that will see things our way...[sic]"

[RightWingMama]

My heart went to my throat when I turned on my TV this morning. I remembered your tagline about Mike coming home on the 4th. Thank God he is OK and may God keep him safe. My prayers to those who lost their lives and especially for their families. For those injured, God be with them.

[TexKat]

U.S. Army soldiers patrol with M1 Abrams tanks Baghdad's western end of Abu Ghraib, after U.S. troops clashed with Iraqi's for the second time in three days, Sunday, Nov 2, 2003. Local Iraqis said U.S. troops arrived earlier Sunday and ordered people to disperse from the marketplace and remove what the Iraqis said were religious stickers from walls. (AP Photo/Khaled Mohammed)

U.S. Army soldiers block the road leading to Baghdad's western end of Abu Ghraib, after U.S. troops clashed with Iraqi's for the second time in three days, Sunday, Nov 2, 2003. Local Iraqis said U.S. troops arrived earlier Sunday and ordered people to disperse from the marketplace and remove what the Iraqis said were religious stickers from walls. (AP Photo/Khaled Mohammed)

A U.S. Army tank guards a marketplace in the Baghdad suburb of Abu Ghraib, November 2, 2003. Locals said skirmishes developed in a market area of the town for the second time in three days, and military bulldozers later demolished stalls set up near the roadway. REUTERS/Ceerwan Aziz

Video grab image shows Iraqis celebrating on a vehicle burning after a roadside bomb blast hit a convoy of U.S. soldiers in civilian vehicles, killing at least one soldier, in Falluja November 2, 2003. The attack came on the same day that guerrillas shot down a U.S. Chinook helicopter as it flew towards Baghdad airport on Sunday. REUTERS/Reuters TV

Video grab image shows Iraqis looking at a vehicle burning after a roadside bomb blast hit a convoy of U.S. soldiers in civilian vehicles, killing at least one, in Falluja November 2, 2003. The attack came on the same day that Guerrillas shot down a U.S. Chinook helicopter as it flew towards Baghdad airport on Sunday. REUTERS/Reuters TV

U.S. Army soldiers aim their guns in Baghdad's western end of Abu Ghraib, after U.S. troops clashed with Iraqi's for the second time in three days, Sunday, Nov 2, 2003. Local Iraqis said U.S. troops arrived earlier Sunday and ordered people to disperse from the marketplace and remove what the Iraqis said were religious stickers from walls. (AP Photo/Khaled Mohammed)

[kanawa]

Most of the world thinks that we're the rogue state. You have to remember, we invaded a soveneign nation based solely on false information and hype by the administration. GW destroyed our national credibility in the worlds eyes and it is on wonder that the only "friends" we have are the ones we can bribe and payoff. Instead of coalition of the willing, they should have called their little experiment the coalition of the corrupt.

Brave Americans dying today and I have to listen to your B.S..
You make me want to puke.

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[MissAmericanPie]

We attacked Iraq because it was the smart thing to do. This war is psycological also. It makes perfect sense to me to look at the big picture in the Middle East and then take on the nation that has the largest and most aggressive military, Iraq.

This is the reason that radicals are flooding into Iraq, the muslim mindset of shame/honor. Beat down Iraq and break down the psyche of the muslim terrorist and they limp back into the wood work. This is how history records their behaviour, it's smart to repeat what history has proven works.

[MEG33]

here is the thread

[MEG33]

#71 on

[mystery-ak]

right now I don't care if we bomb Iraq back to the stone ages....then again they haven't progressed much.

I have to get Mike's dress uniform together.....I can't find his belt....all his gear is in Balad and he has only his desert cammies....

[TexKat]

Video grab image shows U.S. Black Hawk helicopters at the scene where guerrillas shot down a U.S. Chinook helicopter as it flew towards Baghdad airport, November 2, 2003. At least 12 soldiers were killed and 20 wounded in the crash, near the village of Baisa, south of the flashpoint town of Falluja, a stronghold of anti-U.S. resistance 50 km (32 miles) west of Baghdad. REUTERS/Reuters

[deadhead]

Prayers for all. So happy to hear your hubby is ok, mystery-ak. You must be a bundle of nerves. So sad for those who lost their lives today, prayers for them and their families.

[TexKat]

God bless you and the families of the troops that are no longer with us and those that are wounded.

[TexKat]

Is Fallujah flattened yet? If not, it should be.

[Luis Gonzalez]

"...if some of you pulled off your "I love Bush" blinders, you might feel the same way."

Saddam was a scumbag, and we needed to move the field of battle from our streets to someone else's, so knocking off a scumbag was icing on the cake.

Pull off YOUR blinders, our troops are drawing fire away from our streets, and our citizens. We are using Iraq as both a battlefield, and a staging area for further action againts places like Syria. Trust me, they are next.

Our presence in Iraq keeps the terrorists from fighting us here, by providing them a target there, but this target can shoot back, unlike the folks in the Towers.

Take time to understand the nature of this war, and stand behind our troops.

[Luis Gonzalez]

Amen brother.

[MEG33]

As we don't have an ignore button on FR, I have found a mental ignore button helps my blood pressure when it comes to certain posters!

[TexKat]

Rumsfeld: Helicopter Downing a Tragedy

WASHINGTON - Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld said Sunday the deadly downing of a U.S. military helicopter in Iraq was a national tragedy and that those responsible would be defeated.

"It's clearly a tragic day for America ... In a long, hard war, we're going to have tragic days," Rumsfeld said. "But they're necessary. They're part of a war that's difficult and complicated."

A Chinook helicopter was struck by a missile and crashed west of Baghdad, killing 15 soldiers and wounding more than 21, the U.S. command and witnesses reported.

"The people who are firing off these surface-to-air missiles are the same people who are killing Iraqis ... and they're going to be beaten eventually," Rumsfeld told ABC's "This Week."

After an earlier television talk show appearance, Rumsfeld discussed the prevalence of missiles.

"We all know that these so-called man portable surface-to-air missiles are widely available in the world and do have the ability to shoot down aircraft and helicopters, and from time to time it happens in various locations," the secretary said.

Rumsfeld said there were "enormous numbers" of such missiles still in Iraq. "Have to be more than hundreds," he said. "There are weapon caches all over that country. They were using schools, hospitals, mosques to hide weapons."

Referring to the dead and injured, he told NBC's "Meet the Press" that "what they're doing is important. What they are doing is taking the battle to the terrorists."