U.S. Chopper Loaded With Troops Shotdown in E. Afghanistan

MSNBC Breaking Live

[RCW2001]

MSNBC reporting unknown casualties, CNN reporting multiple casualties... Developing...

[Toidylop]

Senator D'assholes should shut his effing loud mouth off. These stupid American haters show their true color no matter what time...

[TexKat]

Deja vu, me too.

Prayer for our soldiers and their families.

[TexKat]

May God bless your husband, keep him wrapped in His love and bring him home safely.

[A. Pole]

When the terrorism stops. I thought GW made that pretty clear.

But the terrorism, crime and diseases will never stop. At least not before the Second Coming.

[ladtx]

What type of fire do you think brought down the Chinook?

My first inclination would be small arms fire. They are equipped with flare-dispensers to throw off heat-seekers and the environment is low-intensity (no radar-guided threat). One well placed round can bring down almost any aircraft, so my money would be the simple AK-47.

[Toidylop]

Please, please support our fight men and women families if you can. This war is NOT OVER like the pressholes want you to believe.

[Oldeconomybuyer]

MSNBC - 2nd chopper may be down...

[Ole Okie]

Only the self-serving/personal gain politiicians will be whining/crying outloud over this incident.

You spells "self-serving/personal gain politicians" like this:

Little Tommy Puff Dasshole

[flamefront]

2nd chopper reported downed.

(msnbc)

[ladtx]

But the terrorism, crime and diseases will never stop. At least not before the Second Coming.

But until then we have to do the best we can. Rarely has humankind sat on their hands when we can help ourselves, that is what free will is all about isn't it?

[RnMomof7]

Well up to now this looked like a cake walk..how will America take this?

God bless those men

[Mixer]

If the weapons used against us in this battle are from Iran then there should be hell to pay over there. Either way Iran is going to get theirs, this will just speed up the process.

[concerned about politics]

But the terrorism, crime and diseases will never stop. At least not before the Second Coming.

True, but it can be minimized for awhile. Prophacy is fluid, and can be slowed down ( but not changed). It depends on the heart of man. That's why not even the angels know what day or what hour.

[BOBTHENAILER]

MSNBC just said that second chopper may have been hit on the ground by RPG, one or two fatalities. Pilot able to take off.

[Michael Maher]

..."Women soldiers"

You should see the Israeli women soldiers, I wouldn't have wooried about their capabilities if they were fighting next to me.

This sh**Hook design needs to be replaced! Been using them since the Paleolithic age I think...

I went down in one in Germany in 1986.
We were transporting P2's around; playing the coldwar shell game when we heard a loud bang & lost one of the turbines.
It was an abnormally nice day & we were flying above mission altitude, thank God! When we heard that bang we dropped 500' in a second. That ground flew up at us FAST. If we were at normal altitude we would have sunk quite deep into the potato field we were flying over.

[Redleg Duke]

The Jarheads have the CH-46 Seaknight. Looks similar to the Shithook (CH-47), but has a single forward landing gear. I think it is a little smaller, too.

[cake_crumb]

Daschle is a moron. He thinks he has won the 2004 presidential election. In short: Daschle is disillusional.

[Fury]

Well up to now this looked like a cake walk..how will America take this?

Both GW and Rummy have both stated this will be a long and painful war...

[concerned about politics]

Daschle is a moron. He thinks he has won the 2004 presidential election. In short: Daschle is disillusional.

I don't think America is ready to trade Bush right now for another "Bend over honey, the war can wait" Clinton right now. It would be the end of the U.S. as we know it.