Saturday October 3, 2009, 2:39 pm
Thanks Tom...I remember this and it was a horrid ordeal they all went through.

Big Gorilly Hugs

Saturday October 3, 2009, 7:35 pm
I have always been against this war,. It is really another war for oil. A plan exists to run a pipeline from Central Asia across Afghanistan to the Arabian Sea. We should not be there. Thank you. Tom for this distressing article.

Saturday October 3, 2009, 7:59 pm
THANKS TOM!!!

This is horrible!!! Hard to read this article!!!!

Saturday October 3, 2009, 9:00 pm
Thanks Tom

Sunday October 4, 2009, 3:26 am
Thannnx Tom... senseless waste of life... one cannot ignore the horrors of wars... they take away so much from life and give nothing abck in return

Sunday October 4, 2009, 4:35 am
I have to go with Chaz on this one. It was for oil in Desert Storm with Daddy Bush and oil in Iraq with Son Bush. It's a family thing. What ever happened to just going over to get our 911 murder! Not good...
Thanks Tom

Sunday October 4, 2009, 8:10 am
thanks tom i agree with chaz

Sunday October 4, 2009, 2:38 pm
Thanks Tom. We at Veterans for Peace believe that the Afghan war is the new Vietnam - let's hope it does not haunt Obama like Vietnam haunted President Johnson, overshadowing his Great Society and his civil rights bill.

VfP is helipng Iraqi children who are injured in the war by flying them to the US for healthcare and then flying them back to Iraq. go to www.nomorevictims.org for updated info.

War is a curse and peace is a blessing.

Sunday October 4, 2009, 7:22 pm
It's hard to read this, but remember it all too well. It's soooo sad.
Tx Tom xo

Monday October 5, 2009, 1:38 pm
Sadly, history repeats itself. More American and Afghanistan soldiers were killed and wounded Sunday in another "Afghanistan Black Hawk Down" in the same area. When will they ever learn? It's time to end this unwinnable war that is wasting American blood and treasure while our own country is going bankrupt. so what the hell are we doing there?

Army Gen. Stanley A. McChrystal has requested as many as 40,000 additional troops to supplement a current U.S. force of 64,000. Obama should remember what President say no and bring the 64,000 home. Bush's war is turning into Obama's Vietnam, just like what happened to Lyndon Johnson.

We should all remember the the words of warning from another General and US President, Dwight D. Eisenhower, who said in his 1961 farewell speech:

"In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist. We must never let the weight of this combination endanger our liberties or democratic processes. We should take nothing for granted. Only an alert and knowledgeable citizenry can compel the proper meshing of the huge industrial and military machinery of defense with our peaceful methods and goals, so that security and liberty may prosper together."

Here are some excerpts from today's LA Times article about Sunday's attack, Afghanistan assault points out U.S. vulnerabilities:

"The toll was the highest in a single incident for American forces in Afghanistan since nine U.S. soldiers died in a strikingly similar insurgent assault 15 months ago on an outpost in the same northeastern province, Nuristan.

Military officials describe the attack on the jointly run U.S.-Afghan outposts in the Kamdesh district as a tightly coordinated onslaught by hundreds of insurgents.

The assault was ultimately repulsed, but only after the outnumbered Americans hammered the militants with airstrikes by warplanes and attack helicopters.

By coincidence, Saturday's battle came at a time of renewed scrutiny of an attack that took place in Nuristan in July 2008 and came to be known as the Battle of Wanat. In it, a thinly manned American-Afghan outpost was nearly overrun by insurgents, and nine U.S. soldiers -- about one-fifth of the American contingent there -- were killed in desperate close-quarters combat."

Sunday November 1, 2009, 6:19 pm
TY Tom - yes the horror of "Black Hawk Down" and all those shocking deaths absolutely unacceptable. Love & Light