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Eric Haney, a retired command sergeant major of the U.S. Army, was a founding member of Delta Force, the military's elite covert counter-terrorist unit. Q: What's your assessment of the war in Iraq? A: Utter debacle. But it had to be from the very first.

I was surprised by the respect for a fallen team member (military) in tonights repeat episode (2007) of "The Unit" (Play 16).

Did anyone else happen to watch The Unit tonight? This was one of my favorite shows up until tonight. If you did not watch to show last week or tonight, the members of The Unit were being set up by someone in the government for killing terrorism prisoners. According to a CIA type it was insinuaded that right wingers had set The Unit because the Left couldn't be trusted on terrorism. It is always the conservatives who come off as the bad guys!

Eric Haney, a retired command sergeant major of the U.S. Army, was a founding member of Delta Force, the military's elite covert counter-terrorist unit. He culled his experiences for "Inside Delta Force" (Delta; $14), a memoir rich with harrowing stories, though in an interview, Haney declines with a shrug to estimate the number of times he was almost killed. (Perhaps the most high-profile incident that almost claimed his life was the 1980 failed rescue of the hostages in Iran.) Today, he's doing nothing nearly as dangerous: He serves as an executive producer and technical adviser for "The Unit," CBS' new...

Last night on CBS, new show about a Delta Force counter-terrorism unit. Depicts both the comradeship of special forces guys and their family relationships. Good actors who fit right in.