Six Americans Killed in Attack on Helicopter (NPR says shot down)

[DrBB]

Mods: NPR now reporting chopper brought down by hostile fire (not covered in other thread on this).

http://www.npr.org/display_pages/features/feature_1496442.html

Audio link on page

on edit: meant to print this:
Six U.S. soldiers from the Army's 101st Airborne Division are killed in Iraq when a Blackhawk helicopter is shot down near Tikrit. Officials say a rocket-propelled grenade hit the aircraft.

Point being it's now "official" acc. to NPR.

[silverchair]

1. how many soldiers

is it going to take before most americans get fed up?

[Yavin4]

3. For Most Americans, As Long As It's Not Their Kid...

they don't really care. Someone else's child dies, so what. That's why I'm all for defecting. If you have a child in the military send him or her to Canada. No one should die in this bullsh1t war.

[Faygo Kid]

2. More evidence of success!

Bush must be ECSTATIC about this! Proves the desperation of those who oppose us (most of the world). Congrats, George, you have done it again! And to THINK some questioned you! Yes, this is just great. Check back next year, even MORE dead, evidence of MORE success! What a great leader. How's the daughters, Dad?

[saigon68]

5. BRING EM ON !!!!

disgusting

[el_gato]

4. is this a dupe or new

would that make 3 this week?

[karlschneider]

6. 3 in 2 weeks, I believe. 2 Black hawks & the Chinook. No deaths in 1st

BH as I recall.
:-(

[ElementaryPenguin]

7. Holy shit!! This is really nightmarish!!

Fucking another Vietnam - with even less justification!!

[lumpy]

8. This will surely get the blood to boiling

in the gungho-Bushco-supporter-dunder head's veins. Bush and his buddies have blown the top off the peanut can. An unholy creation that the American dictator and his evil plotters have created. Bushco and these insane asylum candidates aren't going to back down or out. Past time to get out on the streets and demand they step down.

[caledesi]

9. So it did get shot down? Wake up America!

How many people have to die before we understand "GET THE F*CK OUT?"

[PurityOfEssence]

10. Wonder what the Russian vets of the Afghan war are thinking?

It's the same dynamic: shoulder-mounted AAA missiles shooting down helicopters.

[Jacobin]

11. Things must be goiing swimmingly!!

This proves it. The evildoers are "desperate"!!

/sarcasm

[peterh]

12. US Executes Show Of Force After Iraq Helicopter Downing

TIKRIT, Iraq (AP)--Following the apparent shooting down of an Army Black Hawk
helicopter Friday - which killed six U.S. soldiers - U.S. troops late Friday
fired mortars and U.S. jets dropped at least three 225 kilogram bombs around the
crash site.
The strikes rattled windows over a wide area in an apparent show of force.
Other U.S. jets streaked over Tikrit after sundown. At least three mortars were
also fired onto the U.S. compound but caused no damage.
The helicopter crash - it was apparently shot down by insurgents - capped the
bloodiest seven days in Iraq for U.S. forces since the fall of Baghdad.



All I can do is just shake my head…. Well twit…that’s a fine mess you’ve gotten us into…

[northzax]

13. that's some show of force

if you don't behave, we'll bomb a whole bunch of nothing!

[Barrett808]

14. Pathetic, impotent display

A sad day for the US, laid low by the BFEE.

[TahitiNut]

15. duplicate

See http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=102&topic_id=204834

I'm locking this thread. Interested DUers are welcome to continue discussing this in the referenced thread.

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