OT: Captured Troops

disabled · #1 March 24th, 2003, 06:29 PM

A large number of the prisoners in Cuba have been released already, I should point out.

But what I think people are forgetting is something mroe than slightly distrubing about that captured helicopter in Iraq.

There was no damage and it had a full missile compliment. What does that mean?

Rollo · #2 March 24th, 2003, 06:39 PM

That probably means that they had to emergency land before reaching their mission target.

[ March 24, 2003, 16:41: Message edited by: Rollo ]

Aloofi · #3 March 24th, 2003, 06:43 PM

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Originally posted by Iggiboo:

But what I think people are forgetting is something mroe than slightly distrubing about that captured helicopter in Iraq.

There was no damage and it had a full missile compliment. What does that mean?

1- Mechanical malfuntion
2- Were Arab-Americans and switched sides
3- Were dominated with Psychic weapons
4- Were vaporized with a secret weapon
5- Were adducted by aliens
6- Was an Iraki made fake chopper for publicity
7- None of the above

geoschmo · #4 March 24th, 2003, 06:57 PM

Where are you getting information that there was no damage? Just because it didn't smack up on landing doesn't mean it wasn't damaged. The television pictures I have seen aren't clear enough to say that it was totally undamaged.

Helicopters are hard things to keep flying under good circumstances. It doesn't take a tremendous amount of damage to force one down. It's unfortunate that the pilots weren't able to toss a grenade in the cockpit before evacuating it, but that sort of thing is more hollywood than reality anyway. Their only thought I am sure was getting the hell away from the chopper as fast as possible and finding a deep hole to crawl in.

Geoschmo

dogscoff · #5 March 24th, 2003, 07:00 PM

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A large number of the prisoners in Cuba have been released already, I should point out.

So?

Aloofi · #6 March 25th, 2003, 04:53 PM

Well, now Bush can justify his war.

He can say: "This war is being waged to save the lives of our brave soldiers illegally captured by the evil Irakis"

With the ChickenHawk Brigade in the Whitehouse you never know......

dogscoff · #7 March 25th, 2003, 05:06 PM

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Well, now Bush can justify his war.

He can say: "This war is being waged to save the lives of our brave soldiers illegally captured by the evil Irakis"

lol! That would be funny if I thought he wouldn't do it- and he'd probably make it stick too, because people are so ready to believe anything they are told when this kind of patriotic frenzy is whipped up.