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The Desert One Debacle
The Atlantic Monthly ^
| May 2006
| Mark Bowden
Posted on 04/20/2006 4:08:59 PM PDT by shoptalk
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To: Grampa Dave
41
posted on
04/21/2006 7:46:17 AM PDT
by
george76
(Ward Churchill : Fake Indian, Fake Scholarship, and Fake Art)
To: Enchante
The Russians did a much better job. Turn our people over in 48 hours or Tehran will be nuked. Worked very well.
The good side of Desert One was that it gave Charging Charlie a platform to build the current SpecOps community. Without D1 I am not sure we would be as good as we are at SpecOps.
de opresso liber
42
posted on
04/21/2006 7:50:52 AM PDT
by
mad_as_he$$
(Never corner anything meaner than you. NSDQ)
To: george76; shoptalk; ASA Vet; BIGLOOK; Ernest_at_the_Beach
Absolutely great and so appropriate for this thread!
43
posted on
04/21/2006 7:51:02 AM PDT
by
Grampa Dave
(There's a dwindling market for Marxist homosexual lunatic wet dreams posing as journalism)
To: Grampa Dave
I'll come back to this later.....thanks, Dave,
When Carter was in, the day count for the captives was above 400. When Reagan was elected, the day count ended. PDQ
44
posted on
04/21/2006 9:17:57 AM PDT
by
BIGLOOK
(Order of Battle: Sink or capture as Prize, MS Media)
To: BIGLOOK
"When Carter was in, the day count for the captives was above 400. When Reagan was elected, the day count ended. PDQ."
Amazing wasn't it.
45
posted on
04/21/2006 9:20:52 AM PDT
by
Grampa Dave
(There's a dwindling market for Marxist homosexual lunatic wet dreams posing as journalism)
To: Grampa Dave; PhilDragoo
Don't forget what a friend of the Sandinistas he was (and probably still is), and every other Latin American commie.
Love the Lillian Carter quote.
46
posted on
04/21/2006 10:04:13 AM PDT
by
La Enchiladita
(God Bless Our Troops...including U.S. Border Patrol, America's First Line of Defense)
To: La Enchiladita
Carter never meet a communist mass killer dictator, he didn't love and respect from Castro to the Chia Head in N Korea and of course the Sandinistas.
47
posted on
04/21/2006 10:06:38 AM PDT
by
Grampa Dave
(There's a dwindling market for Marxist homosexual lunatic wet dreams posing as journalism)
To: shoptalk
Carter's greatest mistake was taking the oath of office... all else followed.
To: PhilDragoo
I wonder if Carter's brain has evolved from a peanut yet?
49
posted on
04/21/2006 10:57:10 AM PDT
by
Smartass
(Si vis pacem, para bellum)
To: Grampa Dave; La Enchiladita; Smartass; devolve; ntnychik; potlatch
On the left, the mullah-flackers on the right, the daughter-raper (actually).
50
posted on
04/21/2006 11:31:57 AM PDT
by
PhilDragoo
(Hitlery: das Butch von Buchenvald)
To: shoptalk
Since the Hostage Rescue Mission, I've read just about everything written on the operation. While a SO planner at SOCEUR, I got to speak to many of those involved in the mission.
Col. James Kyle, USAF(ret), used as the title of his book the salutation of the 22nd SAS to the raiders when they landed back in OMAN. It was written on a case of scotch.
"For those who had the guts to try!"
A good thing did eventually come out of the mission - the US Special Operations Command.
When President Bush had a conference call with the commanders of the 9 unified commands on 09/12/01, eight of them gave him operational plans which would have taken months to impliment. Then General Chuck Holland, COMSOCOM,said, "Mr. President, we can have an assessment team on the ground in Uzbekistan in 72 hours."
Which commander do you think the Boss placed his trust in?
51
posted on
04/21/2006 11:32:51 AM PDT
by
SOLTC
To: PhilDragoo; george76
Great picture of the people who love Jimmy Carter and are loved by Jimmy.
52
posted on
04/21/2006 11:39:00 AM PDT
by
Grampa Dave
(There's a dwindling market for Marxist homosexual lunatic wet dreams posing as journalism)
To: Grampa Dave
53
posted on
04/21/2006 12:42:55 PM PDT
by
george76
(Ward Churchill : Fake Indian, Fake Scholarship, and Fake Art)
To: george76
Or a Nobel Prize Winner in Carter's case.
54
posted on
04/21/2006 1:36:15 PM PDT
by
Grampa Dave
(There's a dwindling market for Marxist homosexual lunatic wet dreams posing as journalism)
To: PhilDragoo
Do you think he has any idea of his failures? He thinks he's such a 'do gooder'!! Typical liberal.
55
posted on
04/21/2006 1:47:21 PM PDT
by
potlatch
(Does a clean house indicate that there is a broken computer in it?)
To: PhilDragoo; Smartass
Reminds me of the pictures Smartass posted last night of McCain hugging the Viet Cong!!
56
posted on
04/21/2006 2:19:40 PM PDT
by
potlatch
(Does a clean house indicate that there is a broken computer in it?)
To: CPOSharky
57
posted on
04/21/2006 3:25:22 PM PDT
by
RaceBannon
(ma(Prov 28:1 KJV) The wicked flee when no man pursueth: but the righteous are bold as a lion.)
To: ansel12
And Beckwith was a moron who didnt know squat about aircraft. The pilots were almost all Marine with one Navy and one Air Force who qualified the series of tests.
All the Army pilots who tried out for the mission failed. Besides, the Army had no such long range aircraft in their inventory that could have been moved in secret like the RH-53 could have.
58
posted on
04/21/2006 3:27:37 PM PDT
by
RaceBannon
(ma(Prov 28:1 KJV) The wicked flee when no man pursueth: but the righteous are bold as a lion.)
To: cyclotic
No one in Delta died on that mission.
59
posted on
04/21/2006 3:28:50 PM PDT
by
RaceBannon
(ma(Prov 28:1 KJV) The wicked flee when no man pursueth: but the righteous are bold as a lion.)
To: shoptalk
his measured response had elicited a great deal of admiration, both at home and abroad
NOT in my home!
The troubles we face today, can be directly traced back to
this fools bumbling and indecision.
60
posted on
04/21/2006 3:34:08 PM PDT
by
tet68
( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
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