Author Topic: Helicopter down... (Read 382 times)

Furball · « **on:** May 06, 2006, 06:23:50 AM »

http://www.sky.com/skynews/article/0,,30000-1220886,00.html

Makes you wonder why we are there trying to help them when the locals all cheer and throw stones at people trying to help.

Yeager · « **Reply #1 on:** May 06, 2006, 12:15:07 PM »

Read Germs, Guns and Steel by Jarod Diamond.

We are all in this thing together unfortunately.

-Concho- · « **Reply #2 on:** May 06, 2006, 12:34:33 PM »

not to be a nazi but it guns, germs and steel.

good read.

Panzzer · « **Reply #3 on:** May 06, 2006, 02:08:18 PM »

I didn't bother to click the link, the one in Basra? UK helicopter shot down, 4 (?) soldiers dead. After which Iraqis clashed with British forces...

Yeager · « **Reply #4 on:** May 06, 2006, 07:23:54 PM »

it should be germs steel and then guns but who am I to piddle paddle

Replicant · « **Reply #5 on:** May 10, 2006, 05:06:43 PM »

Five presumed dead. I had dealt with one of them several years ago.

When they show pictures of those that have fallen always has more of an impact - makes it all the more real... poor souls.

RIP!