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Black Hawk Down — China Up?
IBD Editorials ^ | May , 11, 2011 | Staff

Posted on 05/11/2011 4:02:36 PM PDT by Kaslin

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1 posted on 05/11/2011 4:02:39 PM PDT by Kaslin
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To: Kaslin

Should the SEALS just throw themselves under the bus before the zer0 does?


2 posted on 05/11/2011 4:07:06 PM PDT by panaxanax (0bama >>WORST PRESIDENT EVER.)
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To: Kaslin

BOMB THEIR EMBASSY - like in 1999....


3 posted on 05/11/2011 4:09:53 PM PDT by traumer
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To: panaxanax

I imagine they would rather quit the Teams and retire from the Navy altogether, rather than take the fall for our Communist president.


4 posted on 05/11/2011 4:09:53 PM PDT by wastedyears (SEAL SIX makes me proud to have been playing SOCOM since 2003.)
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To: Kaslin
I don't understand why that was left behind, but then we really don't know if they were taking fire from outside the wall or not. Seems like that should have been easy enough to destroy.

Meanwhile, we'll keep giving those Pak rats foriegn aid.

5 posted on 05/11/2011 4:09:53 PM PDT by Slump Tester (What if I'm pregnant Teddy? Errr-ahh -Calm down Mary Jo, we'll cross that bridge when we come to it)
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To: Slump Tester

They destroyed part of the chopper up. Hopefully it was the critical part


6 posted on 05/11/2011 4:13:36 PM PDT by Kaslin (Acronym for OBAMA: One Big Ass Mistake America)
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To: Slump Tester

“I don’t understand why that was left behind...”

I’m guessing it was orders. They had the ability to wipe it off the face of the earth. Call it tin foil hat material, but that wasn’t left behind by accident.

“Hey, who blew up the top secret tail rotor silencer?”

“Gee, I thought YOU did!”

Puhhhhllllleaaaaaase.


7 posted on 05/11/2011 4:15:39 PM PDT by jessduntno (Liberalism is socialism in a party dress. And just as masculine.)
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To: Kaslin

Obama could get the copter back if he really leaned on Pakistan, the way Bush leaned on Pakistan after 9/11.

But of course he won’t.

a) Because he’s a feeble wimp.

b) Because he wants China to get the technology.


8 posted on 05/11/2011 4:15:51 PM PDT by Cicero
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“I don't understand why that was left behind, but then we really don't know if they were taking fire from outside the wall or not. Seems like that should have been easy enough to destroy.”

It's my understanding that piece of tail section fell on the opposite side of the compound wall than the Seals were on. It's my guess that in the fog of the operation that got forgotten. I think what should happen is we (U.S.) should inform the Pakistanis that if we don't get the chopper remains back in 24 hours we're going to send a predator missile in to destroy the remains. And, btw, there can forget about any future aide from us. That’ what I would do. I think they're forgetting that there have been times in the past that the only thing restraining India from winding their clock is us as in U.S.

9 posted on 05/11/2011 4:16:20 PM PDT by snoringbear (Government is the Pimp,)
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“Forgotten?”


10 posted on 05/11/2011 4:19:50 PM PDT by sanjuanbob (Festina Lente)
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To: Kaslin

China probaly had the plans before the first prototype was built. Affirmative action and all ya know.


11 posted on 05/11/2011 4:21:02 PM PDT by HP8753 (Live Free!!!! .............or don't.)
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“Forgotten?”

Heh heh ... yeah, and it was on the other side of a wall, too! Impossible to retrieve! How would they get through a wall?


12 posted on 05/11/2011 4:21:45 PM PDT by jessduntno (Liberalism is socialism in a party dress. And just as masculine.)
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To: Kaslin

An earlier piece of news said it was a Chinook. ...didn’t say Black Hawk. As for the Chinese, our universities and corporations already favored them over our own as university engineering students long ago, so game over. Prepare to rebuild instead of trying to undo what has already been done.


13 posted on 05/11/2011 4:27:26 PM PDT by familyop ("Don't worry, they'll row for a month before they figure out I'm fakin' it." --Deacon, "Waterworld")
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To: Kaslin

China hasn’t come up with anything new in 1,000 years. Since then it has practiced reverse engineering with a passion.


14 posted on 05/11/2011 4:27:46 PM PDT by ought-six ( Multiculturalism is national suicide, and political correctness is the cyanide capsule.)
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To: Kaslin

Shades of the Jimmy Carter fiasco.


15 posted on 05/11/2011 4:33:47 PM PDT by Don Corleone ("Oil the gun..eat the cannoli. Take it to the Mattress.")
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To: familyop
"An earlier piece of news said it was a Chinook. ...didn’t say Black Hawk"

The first stories were a Chinook and two Blackhawks. Which would have eliminated the whole surprise raid angle. These stealth birds are MUCH quieter.

To hear the difference between normal and "hush" mode check out this at youtube.Here

16 posted on 05/11/2011 4:47:14 PM PDT by moehoward
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To: jessduntno

“Call it tin foil hat material, but that wasn’t left behind by accident.”

You mean like a nice ‘gift’ or ‘campaign donation payback’ from 0bama to China?

White Hut story #37 of this fiasco says that they had been planning the raid for two years. You would think that every scenario would have been covered. Maybe you’re right!


17 posted on 05/11/2011 4:48:18 PM PDT by panaxanax (0bama >>WORST PRESIDENT EVER.)
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I’d bet my next Soc Sec check that the Chinese had cell phone pics and digital files on this rig before it was taxi’d out of the build hangar.


18 posted on 05/11/2011 4:50:18 PM PDT by nascarnation
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Ping


19 posted on 05/11/2011 4:59:55 PM PDT by raptor22 (Join me on Twitter @gerfingerpoken)
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To: sanjuanbob

““Forgotten?””

Just my best guess. What’s yours?


20 posted on 05/11/2011 5:51:43 PM PDT by snoringbear (Government is the Pimp,)
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