Posted on 08/12/2013 5:38:59 AM PDT by SJackson
Not real sure it will matter what a congressional inquiry finds - the MSM will be out ordering a new supply of crickets, and the low-info voters will go on their merry way, cashing in food stamps and buying lottery tickets.
But I know, I know..... pointless to ask.
There are no wowrds...
And sadly NOTHING will ever get done about this “phony scandal” as well.
Birth certificate
School Records
House records (home in Chicago)
Voter fraud and suppression in two national elections
IRS
Benghazi
NSA
A lot of this story involves Politics and political motivations. I however have a military question and that is “why were so many Special Operations Troops put into a flying target like a Chinook and sent into a known Hot Landing Zone”? We learned in Vietnam that when you are going into a hot LZ, you disperse your landing parties into multiple light, fast manueverable aircraft equipped with firepower. Putting that many trrops on a “Chinook” and sending them into a Hot area is “criminal” and I haven’t seen anybody in the Military Command Structure address this decision.
A “scandal” is only a scandal if the obama backed media chooses to call it a scandal and it’s not likely unless it might affect them directly(like the iRS of NSA investigation reporters).
BUMP. BUMP. BUMP
Yup. Unless the kardashians or the “real” housewives or sister-wives or escaping amish kids were involved, all we’ll hear will be crickets. Paula Deen got more headlines than this.
And now, there's the Missouri rodeo clown....
As far as getting any traction, we are left with a handful in Congress, who seem to be stymied at every turn.
IMO, Did removing forces from the tribal areas to centralized fortifications result in fewer if any available helos in the area. Couple that with the reported 7 “friendly” Afghan personnel on the ship, the fact that helo was probably made in the 1960s as it was a reserve craft, and the reason for the mission in the first place without suitable support leaves many questions unanswered such as why not dispatch single wing planes to attack something like 10-15 enemy fighters pinning the Rangers down. Also, how did His Excellency's rules for engagement affect the outcome, like no night operations, no firing into “friendly” villages etc.
This whole thing reeks. As a high school teacher I heard say when the class failed miserably on oral recitation: when the blind lead the blind, they all fall in the ditch.
5.56mm
yeah, that was my initial question when I heard about it. Why so many on one copter? We invest so much in training our SEALs and they are so incredibly valuable and rare, who the HE__ put them all on the same big slow copter? Has he been fired or better yet, put up against a wall?
It is infuriating and the responsibility should bubble all the way up to administration. Dear reader should be furious and demanding answers, but he isn’t. That is a further indictment against him and his realm of phony baloney officials.
Congress waits TWO YEARS, then decides to investigate? yeah, I’m sure that’ll produce results.
‘You forgot Fast & Furious.”
We must NOT EVER forget Fast and Furious.
Seems as each new scandal gets added to the list, one old scandal gets shoved down the memory hole.
As far as I know SEALs don’t go into any situation without weeks or even months of planning. They also usually operate in teams of 6-8 certainly not 22 of them and all crammed onto a single crappy helicopter. This was a total setup. Not even close to normal SOP.
What exactly is the criteria for impeachable offenses nowadays? Does anyone ask this question. IMHO, no one will file articles of impeachment because no one wants to be historically remembered as the person who tried to impeach the first black president.
D.C. is indeed a stagnant pond.
Someone ordered that mission and they need be held accountable for the disaster. Sending in 22 seals to rescue a small army unit does not make sense at all to me, it would be like killing an ant with a sledge hammer. The whole thing reeks, either from a resourse over reach or from a coverup to keep a lid on something else. BTW, unless I miss my guess, the military said the helo was destroyed and the seals were burned beyond recognition which does not comport with people who viewed the photos of the bird on the ground.
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