tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8755035051021414780.post5509024792761999363..comments2023-11-17T03:55:40.736-05:00Comments on Ink Spots: Let sleeping sea dogs lie - for nowLilhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18373158801523577733noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8755035051021414780.post-44313797724500938262011-07-06T13:10:10.072-04:002011-07-06T13:10:10.072-04:00not now, wait til libya becomes another one of our...not now, wait til libya becomes another one of our gas stations, then we can do whatever, like in jordan, ksa and before in egypt.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8755035051021414780.post-149050795400369642011-07-06T10:03:30.568-04:002011-07-06T10:03:30.568-04:00Well, that I don't get. Speicher still could h...Well, that I don't get. Speicher still could have been alive and DoD should have done something about it. Granted, DoD didn't exactly have its ducks in a row with regard to PR then, but still. This was three years and one administration later following the war. This Intrepid case happened during the Jefferson administration.Jason Fritzhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18335313679058470722noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8755035051021414780.post-74790352752781489032011-07-06T08:01:48.679-04:002011-07-06T08:01:48.679-04:00Never let reality get in the way of scoring a few ...Never let reality get in the way of scoring a few political points.<br /><br />Then there is the opposite side of the coin with John Shalikashvili and LtCdr Scott Speicher....<br /><br />At a meeting in December 1994 in the Pentagon, Secretary of Defense William Perry and the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, General John Shalikashvili, decided how to approach the site.<br /><br />Tim Connolly, who was then the deputy secretary of defense in charge of special operations as well as a Gulf War veteran with a Bronze Star, argued the case at the meeting. "I closed by saying, 'I will go out the door of this conference room and I will stand in the hall, and I will stop the first five people who walk by in military uniform, regardless of service or gender,'" Connolly recalls. "'I will explain to them what we are trying to do and ask them if they will get on the helicopter. And I will guarantee you that all five will get on the helicopter.' And then I shut my mouth. And the chairman said, 'I do not want to have to write letters home to the parents to tell them that their son or daughter died looking for old bones.'"<br /><br />The Pentagon nixed the covert mission. General Shalikashvili would not talk to 60 Minutes II about his decision.<br /><br />On March 1, 1995, Saddam agreed to allow American experts to visit the crash site. But because of what Baghdad called "unforeseen bureaucratic delays," the Americans didn't visit for nine months. <br /><br />When members of the U.S. team got there, they found the site had been tampered with. The cockpit was missing an dso was the ejection seat. The Iraqis had gotten there first. <br /><br />http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2003/03/23/60II/main545488.shtmlBoondogglehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13169440623551291887noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8755035051021414780.post-48166881220269712512011-07-05T14:48:11.377-04:002011-07-05T14:48:11.377-04:00@ Matt:
"It is ridiculous and shameful that ...@ Matt:<br /><br />"It is ridiculous and shameful that these men have been buried in a mass grave for all of these years in Libya."<br /><br />Yes it is.<br /><br />"They are Americans, and they deserve to be buried on US soil."<br /><br />Yes they are and do.<br /><br />"Leave no man behind..."<br /><br />Totally with you, but they've already been left behind. We should recover their remains as soon as we can. But it doesn't meet requirements for DoD Personnel Recovery actions. We've bollixed this up for 200 years - is it worth putting lives at risk now for it? I'd argue no. We can do this when things calm down.Jason Fritzhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18335313679058470722noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8755035051021414780.post-64415714877270117222011-07-05T13:26:50.957-04:002011-07-05T13:26:50.957-04:00Leave no man behind... It is ridiculous and shamef...Leave no man behind... It is ridiculous and shameful that these men have been buried in a mass grave for all of these years in Libya. They are Americans, and they deserve to be buried on US soil.Matthttp://www.feraljundi.comnoreply@blogger.com