We could have dropped some "Rods from God" on them. I don't know if this is ready or not. It's probably been shut down by Obama.Quote from PHOENIX TRADING:
I think it will proven we did give them shoulder fired SAM's
I see them using it as an excuse not a legit reason, other options were available.Quote from pspr:
We could have dropped some "Rods from God" on them. I don't know if this is ready or not. It's probably been shut down by Obama.
http://www.popsci.com/scitech/article/2004-06/rods-god
Quote from CaptainObvious:
"You don't deploy forces into harm's way without knowing what's going on, without having some real-time information about what's taking place," Panetta said.
This would be true to a degree, but they did know. They had communications with the Team on the ground and they had drone surveillance. They had information going back and forth for several hours. They also had a man on the roof with a laser pointer and "eye's on" the mortar postion that eventually took them out.
There is one reason, and only one reason they did not provide air support. Collateral damage. Someone decided it was better to sacrifice these men than chance collateral damage. Probably the same someone who decided to have these guys so far out on a limb in the first place with such a small security force, in a F'n combat zone. We all know who that someone is. It's the guy telling everyone to vote early. Now we know why. By election day the majority will know that a vote for Obama is a vote for a man who would rather sacrifice Americans than piss off radical Islamists.
Quote from CaptainObvious:
"You don't deploy forces into harm's way without knowing what's going on, without having some real-time information about what's taking place," Panetta said.
This would be true to a degree, but they did know. They had communications with the Team on the ground and they had drone surveillance. They had information going back and forth for several hours. They also had a man on the roof with a laser pointer and "eye's on" the mortar postion that eventually took them out.
There is one reason, and only one reason they did not provide air support. Collateral damage. Someone decided it was better to sacrifice these men than chance collateral damage. Probably the same someone who decided to have these guys so far out on a limb in the first place with such a small security force, in a F'n combat zone. We all know who that someone is. It's the guy telling everyone to vote early. Now we know why. By election day the majority will know that a vote for Obama is a vote for a man who would rather sacrifice Americans than piss off radical Islamists.
This does not even address the question of how and why they came out with their B.S. video story. This was a full pitched battle that went all all night, they knew every detail of it, yet they came out and for better than a week connected this with the video. Unconscionable!!!