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Posted: 8/5/2001 9:09:54 PM EDT

at the end how the author made every possible excuse to keep Clinton and his cronies from any blame. He tries his hardest to blame G.W. Bush.

I talked person-to-person to a BlackHawk Chief Warrant Officer who was DIRRECTLY involved with the battle. He blamed the SECDEF for not allowing heavy armor into the country. I talked to him about 3 months after the battle, well before the book was released.

Posted: 8/5/2001 10:27:14 PM EDT

[#1]

Dammit! I wrote this for a friggin' response.

Posted: 8/5/2001 11:27:18 PM EDT

[#2]

How could they blame Bush anyways?

Posted: 8/5/2001 11:51:43 PM EDT

[#3]

Bush initiated the original mission, which was famine relief.

-Troy

Posted: 8/6/2001 3:43:11 AM EDT

[#4]

I distinctly remember Boy President Clinton marching across the front lawn of the White House surrounded by the military in desert storm BDUs, taking credit for the successful conclusion of the Somali relief efforts, about a month PRIOR to the BHD/Ranger incident!

If you wanted armor, at that time, you needed to go to Mt. Carmel, near Waco, Texas, at the Branch Davidians' Church (not 'compound').

Eric The(So,[b]That's[/b]WhereTheArmorWas!)Hun[>]:)]

Posted: 8/6/2001 4:29:51 AM EDT

[#5]

George W. Bush was governor of Texas at the time.

Norm

Posted: 8/6/2001 6:39:52 AM EDT

[#6]

Did I say W? Oops. I meant the senior of the two.

Posted: 8/6/2001 7:02:25 AM EDT

[#7]

Didn't Les Aspin make the decision to deny armor? I am from Wis. and know what a dipstick he is. Liberal puke--fit right in with the Xlinton administration.

Posted: 8/6/2001 7:55:56 AM EDT

[#8]

Yes he did. The author tried to justify Aspins decision by saying that armor wasn't needed. If I recall correctly, It was an armored UN collumn that finaly rescued the pinned down soldiers.

(edited for crappy syntax)

Posted: 8/6/2001 8:07:33 AM EDT

[#9]

Quoted:
Yes he did. The author tried to justify Aspins decision by saying that armor wasn't needed. If I recall correctly, It was an armored UN collumn that finaly rescued the pinned down soldiers.

(edited for crappy syntax)

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They are [b]NOW[/b] saying armor wasn't needed? Perhaps the idiots in DC could draw that conclusion at the time, but, in retrospect, armor certainly was needed--if the lives of our men matter. This kind of thing makes me so angry I can barely type. My stepson is, at this moment, en route to report to the USMC for duty. My wife probably has a different attitude about the value of the lives of our service personnel. Send armor!

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