Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I happen to know that at least one high security US facility in DC area is doing major disaster scenario training exercises next week in direct response to what happened in Afghanistan and to prepare for blowback from Iran in response to SWIFT shut down. I've never seen this level of heightened security since 9-11.

well i hope your information divulgence isnt anything more than For Official Use Only info, otherwise, you probably shouldnt publish that in a public forum. but thanks for the ohh ahh, Ill go pack my disaster pantry.

Well, spouse has the clearance, I don't. But yes, I've probably said too much.

Anonymous wrote:another Obama failure. Bush won Iraq. Obama lost afghanistan. What a punk.

No, Bush told us he won Afghanistan in 2003. Don't you remember?

In an announcement marking a major victory in America's ongoing war on terror, Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld declared Thursday that "major combat activity" has ended in Afghanistan. Later in the day, from aboard an aircraft carrier in the Pacific Ocean, President Bush planned to announce that military combat is over in Iraq.

Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,85688,00.html#ixzz1pEjSgmVD

They went into Afghanistan with 10-15,000 troops to defeat the people who pushed back 150,000 Soviet troops.

My definition of punk: A guy who keeps thinking he has won wars, and then finds out later that --oopsie -- he hasn't actually killed or captured his opponent or secured a surrender. WTF how many times do you get to make that mistake in a career?

Anonymous wrote:I happen to know that at least one high security US facility in DC area is doing major disaster scenario training exercises next week in direct response to what happened in Afghanistan and to prepare for blowback from Iran in response to SWIFT shut down. I've never seen this level of heightened security since 9-11.

well i hope your information divulgence isnt anything more than For Official Use Only info, otherwise, you probably shouldnt publish that in a public forum. but thanks for the ohh ahh, Ill go pack my disaster pantry.

I happen to know that at least one high security US facility in DC area is doing major disaster scenario training exercises next week in direct response to what happened in Afghanistan and to prepare for blowback from Iran in response to SWIFT shut down. I've never seen this level of heightened security since 9-11.

Anonymous wrote:I suspect the reason he has not been idenitified is concern for his family. As soon as the identity is revealed, it puts a huge target on his family.

I also find it interesting how they are already building his defense: 4 tours of duty, head injury on one of those tours.

building a defense or speculating on why a soldier would "snap" or go crazy like that? I think its the latter.

I suspect the reason he has not been idenitified is concern for his family. As soon as the identity is revealed, it puts a huge target on his family.

I also find it interesting how they are already building his defense: 4 tours of duty, head injury on one of those tours.

Anonymous wrote:
No, this is when America got punk'd. Can anyone explain to me how they could mistakenly think the war was over? What did he say later, "oops my bad?" Nope, he used that one when they didn't find WMD.

Sorry dude, but Bush accidentally invaded the wrong country, then he accidentally declared the war over about eight years too early.

yes, funny how the thing about WMD has been forgotten
Bush started the war to boost the economy

Bush won Iraq.

What color is the sky in your world, PP?

Anonymous wrote:another Obama failure. Bush won Iraq. Obama lost afghanistan. What a punk.

No, this is when America got punk'd. Can anyone explain to me how they could mistakenly think the war was over? What did he say later, "oops my bad?" Nope, he used that one when they didn't find WMD.

Sorry dude, but Bush accidentally invaded the wrong country, then he accidentally declared the war over about eight years too early.

Anonymous wrote:The sergeant was on his third or four tour as combat arms mos. As bad as it sounds, things like this happen in war. The thing I find amazing is the lack of accountability of the active duty officers in all these incidence- abu ghraib, the koran stuff etc.

This. Always. Now with the internet more people hear about it.

Anonymous wrote:another Obama failure. Bush won Iraq. Obama lost afghanistan. What a punk.

Obama ended one war. Bush started two. Who's the punk?

jsteele wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Why have they taken the guy out of Afghanistan? Why hasn't his identity been divulged?

I read today that the soldier was removed from Afghanistan. I am also baffled by the failure to identify him. I'm even more baffled that nobody in the media seems to be curious about that omission. I think it's gone on long enough to get us into conspiracy theory territory. Perhaps he comes from a well-known family or maybe the Internet is filled with his incoherent rantings about his desire to go house to house killing people? Eventually the will have to identify him, won't they? So, what are they waiting for?

I'm the PP. I also find this incomprehensible. It makes us look like callous thugs who are trying to protect someone who has committed a horrific crime and gives the Afghan people an incentive to transfer their legitimate anger onto every American who is left back in Afghanistan.

When those Blackwater employees were killed and mutilated, we laid siege to Fallujah, resulting in thousands of deaths. So far all we're hearing about this is a bunch of infuriating platitudes such as "war is hell", "it's very sad", "really incomprehensible", "shit happens"...What are they thinking?

Anonymous wrote:We never should have gotten involved in the Middle East. MAny of us knew this back in 2002-2003, for Iraq, and furthermore when the War in Afghanistan started. We rallied and tried to fight against the awful wars, but nobody listened. Maybe people will now listen when we say that we should leave Afghanistan. Its not like we are going to be doing anything good for the country at this point, as this event shows.

Yes, our meddling the middle east began back in 2002-2003. Pahlease. Check out the book Ghost Wars and youll see that we have been involved in the stan for longer than you can remember.

Anonymous wrote:Why have they taken the guy out of Afghanistan? Why hasn't his identity been divulged?

I read today that the soldier was removed from Afghanistan. I am also baffled by the failure to identify him. I'm even more baffled that nobody in the media seems to be curious about that omission. I think it's gone on long enough to get us into conspiracy theory territory. Perhaps he comes from a well-known family or maybe the Internet is filled with his incoherent rantings about his desire to go house to house killing people? Eventually the will have to identify him, won't they? So, what are they waiting for?

Why have they taken the guy out of Afghanistan? Why hasn't his identity been divulged?