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Jackpine Radical (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Feb-07-07 11:43 AM Original message |
About shooting down helicopters... |
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Little Wing (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Feb-07-07 11:46 AM Response to Original message |
1. Maybe Putin is just giving us a little taste of what we did to them in Afghanistan |
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madokie (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Feb-07-07 12:13 PM Response to Reply #1 |
10. maybe |
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Bonobo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Feb-07-07 11:46 AM Response to Original message |
2. THAT is the right question indeed. Why now? |
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northernsoul (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Feb-07-07 11:49 AM Response to Reply #2 |
4. Lots of countries don't mind seeing us bogged down in this disaster |
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Jacobin (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Feb-07-07 11:47 AM Response to Original message |
3. We gave Osama shoulder fired missiles in Afghanistan to use |
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Solo_in_MD (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Feb-07-07 12:39 PM Response to Reply #3 |
13. Bear i mind that those weapons have a shelf life after which they need to be |
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dysfunctional press (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Feb-07-07 01:54 PM Response to Reply #13 |
17. it's the batteries- iirc they have a max life of 20 years(?) |
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stonecoldsober (411 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Feb-07-07 11:52 AM Original message |
I think it's the Iranians |
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Dhalgren (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Feb-07-07 12:12 PM Response to Original message |
9. I don't think it is the Iranians. They would have nothing to gain. I |
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stonecoldsober (411 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Feb-07-07 12:37 PM Response to Reply #9 |
12. Nothing to gain? Sorry, you lost me there. |
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Dhalgren (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Feb-07-07 01:38 PM Response to Reply #12 |
15. I don't see what the Iranians have to gain by giving SAMs to Sunni insurgents. |
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stonecoldsober (411 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Feb-07-07 02:20 PM Response to Reply #15 |
21. Who said they were Sunni? |
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Dhalgren (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Feb-07-07 04:37 PM Response to Reply #21 |
22. Well, in three of the instances the US aircraft was engaged with |
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stonecoldsober (411 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Feb-08-07 10:40 AM Response to Reply #22 |
23. Insurgents can be anyone, even a Shia |
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Dhalgren (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Feb-08-07 11:53 AM Response to Reply #23 |
24. You are the one who said that it was the Iranians. Why do you |
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stonecoldsober (411 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Feb-08-07 12:14 PM Response to Reply #24 |
25. Just a wild guess, but I think it's very possible |
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stonecoldsober (411 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Feb-07-07 11:52 AM Response to Original message |
5. dupe |
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havocmom (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Feb-07-07 11:53 AM Response to Original message |
6. Plame's weapon monitoring network probably not the only one Cheney closed down |
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oasis (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Feb-07-07 12:16 PM Response to Reply #6 |
11. Maybe you're on to something here.(eom) |
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Schema Thing (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Feb-07-07 11:55 AM Response to Original message |
7. I think it's exactly as Wes Clark has described it |
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T Wolf (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Feb-07-07 12:11 PM Response to Original message |
8. Like "canned" hunts, the pukes love it when copters are downed. It |
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Solo_in_MD (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Feb-07-07 12:40 PM Response to Original message |
14. Mildly OT: Anyone here ever listen to the SAM Song by Athenrye or other IRA music groups? |
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HuffleClaw (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Feb-07-07 01:40 PM Response to Original message |
16. i think its also very possible the missiles being used are US weapons |
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HiFructosePronSyrup (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Feb-07-07 01:55 PM Response to Original message |
18. The insurgents have been shooting down helicopters... |
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theboss (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Feb-07-07 02:02 PM Response to Original message |
19. Pick one of the three: Iranians, Saudis, or Syrians.... |
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Breeze54 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Feb-07-07 02:05 PM Response to Original message |
20. Saudis reportedly funding Iraqi Sunni insurgents |
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