Breaking news...MSNBC

[AnnInLa]

another helicopter down in SW Iraq...no link yet....said not to be insurgent-related....even if it was insurgent-related, would they tell us?

[Felix Mala]

1. Another anti-American dust storm

[underpants]

3. This is the dust storm season

Mid January into February as I have been told by Gulf1 vets. Nasty stuff too.

[tridim]

4. Here's an idea

If the weather is bad, delay the friggin take off! Don't worry Bush, you can still murder more Iraqis after the storm passes.

[DrWeird]

5. Forecast:

Monday: Heavy ground fire.

Tuesday: Heavy ground fire.

Wednesday: Heavy ground fire. Chance of surface-to-air missles.

Thursday: Heavy ground fire.

Friday: Heavy ground fire. Intermitten anti-aircraft artillery.

Saturday: Heavy ground fire.

Sunday: Heavy ground fire.

[LynnTheDem]

12. LOL! *sob*

:D :cry:

[fooj]

8. OMG!!

:cry: :cry: :cry:

[BrotherBuzz]

15. Lt.Col. Amy Hakola, a Navy satellite meteorologist says...

"The main sandstorm season hasn't even begun yet: It typically runs from late April to mid-July."

[PATRICK]

16. I wonder

how the Mid easterners managed their choppers in the dust storms? I suspect Saddam used his more prudently- or could afford to.

The Carter rescue debacle flying helicopters across hundreds of miles of desert went badly.

I suspect if this is the case with more pressure under constant use we will see a host of such failures- if this isn't cover for the insurgent successes- which we will never be told.

[xultar]

2. Wow that Weather is pretty effin tricky. n/t

[FormerDittoHead]

6. Could it be....?

Wouldn't it be funny (in a very sad way) if they were shot down by some left over anti-aircraft weapon from our "friendly" Saddam days, but one that was sold to him secretly, and so now we have to keep it a secret?

[fooj]

7. Those bastards better be keeping our soldiers copters ...

maintained and safe for flying! With what we know about their families sending them supplies and vests, etc., can we be sure they are giving our guys decent, regularly maintained helicopters? How tragic that we even have to wonder...I hope everything is OK! O8)

[RaleighNCDUer]

9. Not happening.

Little things like maintenance are now being handled by the contractors, not the military. They don't worry about the troops, they worry about the bottom line.

[fooj]

10. Are you kidding me? OMG!

[K-W]

11. Profiteering used to be a crime during war.

Now its status quo.

Its amazing. There was a time when Americans knew this stuff.

[JohnnyCougar]

14. Really? Was there a law against it?

There should be now.

[meisje]

13. Forecast

[lonestarnot]

17. No such thing as insurgent!