Posted on 03/22/2011 3:14:42 PM PDT by tsowellfan
Are the reporters certain the people were welcoming the pilots?
Yes, turn him over to the Hague asap.
It’s Obama’s stated objective - we must save the civilians from Gaddafi.
Even if we have to kill them to do so.
The next time a plane goes down, the locals will probably leave injured crewmembers instead of trying to assist them.
Part of me says we should hang whoever the trigger happy grunt was who fired first and asked friend or foe after. The other part of me (the retired MSgt part) wonders how scared to death the guy who pulled the trigger must have been. I guess it’s easy sitting here to blame them, but you have to be really honest with yourself and try to imagine what you would have done. But no matter what your mind says your gut tells you something very different when it really happens to you. So god bless our troops and I pray for their safe return.
Yep. The job of the gunner on the chopper was to protect the downed flyer. The gunner did what he was trained to do.
“...civilize ‘em with a Krag.”
Agreed and also these damn ‘rebels’ we are spending millions upon millions upon millions of our tax dollars to ‘save’ from kaddafy were dancing in the streets on 9/11 chanting ‘death to America I’ll bet....along with every muslim everywhere else for that matter. (The ones not outwardly jumping around were thinking it). That is islam. I could be all wrong tho...Bush did call ‘em ‘The Religion of peace’ after all........
“Besides, you don’t go running after a downed pilot being covered with air-support.”
Oh come on, what do they know about the rules of military engagement? They’re a peace-loving people!;)
And so when man and horse go down
Beneath a saber keen,
Or in a roaring charge or fierce melee
You stop a bullet clean,
And the hostiles come to get your scalp,
Just empty your canteen,
And put your pistol to your head
And go to Fiddlers’ Green.
From “The cavalrymen’s poem”......?
Do the asshats at the Daily Mail in England ever bother to check facts before writing their junk?
There were not two pilots on the aircraft. The back-seater is the weapons officer.
The two crewmembers that ejected did not come down near each other, so the chopper could not have been shooting at a bunch of Libyans running toward the two guys. Each crewmember was picked up by separate aircraft.
Whoops. Obama’s fault. Thanks tsowellfan.
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