Can somebody distill it? What’s the evidence in a nutshell?
..the “nutshell” is as big as a Ford Explorer....I’ve been following it for months and found out more I didn’t hear or read about..
They were offended that a Imam said a prayer over their son’s bodies, that we gave bin Laden a proper burial according to his faith but did not even do the same for our own people. PC
The helicopter they rode in wasn’t the one they trained in and the one used by special forces, it was a Chinok, a standard transport heli. They had no cover or others clearing the way for them going into a situation/battle that had been going on for over 3 hrs.
Eight of the Afghan’s killed with them on the copter were not the eight that were on the log to fly with them. Why? When they radioed in about men in a tower they were told it was just Afghan’s hanging crops (2 in the morning).
They are saying our appeasement and desire to win the “hearts and minds” of terrorists is compromising and killing our men and women. The ROE and all—it is wrong.
The call for the special forces to go in like that was last minute, they want to know who made that call. I can’t recall all the details around that but the sudden sending those guys in was not the norm.
Books of information the families were given on the investigation was many blank pages...they had good questions for investigators but they would get the shrug-off. No Afghan people were interviewed in the investigation, yet they were highly involved. The families were lied to often.
I can’t give you exact details, it was a bunch of information and I don’t recall it precise. They are asking for our help to get a through investigation of this. They are saying that the hearts and minds of the enemy is more important to our politicians than is the blood of our children that are serving.
I think they made their case. We should help them work for a full and public hearing of all the facts. It is the least we can do for these men who gave their lives and for their families. It is also in the interest of those currently serving under these twisted PC ideals of politicians. They also said something similar to —we aren’t having a war, our people are having to play political games out there— (again, just a rough telling of their point).