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I'm kind of amazed that one of the two helicopters they used went down with mechanical failure. Did nobody have the mechanics give it a once over before they sent it on this mission?
"Uh, squad leader, we've got a situation here."
"Copy. What you got?"
"Uhm, we're out of oil."
"Come again?"
I'm wondering now if they postponed the attack until after the Royal Wedding. They certainly wouldn't want a gathering of a million people in the streets of London after assassinating Bin Laden.
Just some guy using Twitter to complain about the annoying helicopters in his neighborhood!
Gotta love the internet.
I'm kind of amazed that one of the two helicopters they used went down with mechanical failure.
I dunno. Helicopters are very complex and are sometimes known to fail even with the best preventative maintenance.
Remember the attempt to rescue the hostages in Iran back in '79 or so? Called off due to a helicopter's mechanical issues. (In the process of leaving Iran, a transport collided with a helicopter on the ground, killing some American servicemen.)
bon bon called it last night:
Was there ever any doubt?
Remind me again, why is that kind of thing OK?
Friend's husband was a helicopter mechanic in the AF. Let's just say that they never ran out of work with those things. And he avoided flying in them as much as possible.
Remind me again, why is that kind of thing OK?
Because it's an accident and liberals have no sense of humor. Or so I've been lead to believe.
WH is debating whether to release photos of OBL in death.
Except if it's an accident it only happens the one time because you FIRE the eejit who failed to properly proofread the headline. Ugh. But yeah, I see your point.
I am a total lurker lately, but I just love coming here after an Event and getting tons of quotables from my Buffistae. Loves!
Even if they put bin Laden's head on a pike outside the WH, conspiracy theorists would still claim he was alive. It's his brother's/son's head! After all, do we really know what he looked like?! The crazy cannot be appeased.