Mike Durant We Won't Leave You Behind

In 1993 a US Army helicopter pilot was shot down, his crew killed, his rescuers killed, and he was captured. The Clinton Administration and Al Queda leaders later claimed that it was Bin Laden's forces that shot the helicopter down. Recently declassified documents and captured documents from Saddam's regime as well as multiple prisoner interrogations confirm that Iraqi Intelligence Forces were involved as well. The pilot, Mike Durant, was beaten and badly wounded. Throughout the night and subsequent days his fellow pilots from his squadron flew over the city of Mogadishu with speakers mounted on their helicopters. They broadcast encouragement to their friend by promising that he would not be left behind. After he was later released, the US left Somalia, and left the people behind as it had in Vietnam, Beirut, and just a year earlier when half a million Iraqis were encouraged to rise up against Saddam, promised American support, and then equally left behind. This pattern of abandonment is what Osama Bin Laden claims convinced him that the US is a paper tiger, and it is about to repeat itself again in Iraq.

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News & Politics

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• Somalia
• troops
• war
• defeat
• terror
• iraq
• ranger
• delta
• airborne
• democrat
• republican
• durant

[gp4nut]

Iraqis involved in Somalia? Yeah right, do you actually believe the BS the government tells you?

[Blackrain4xmas]

The Clinton admin claimed it.

The African Embassy bombers claimed it.

Captured/authenticated docs from Saddam's regime confirm it.

Iraqis confirm it.

And the Bush Admin claims it.

Oh, but we should all believe some nameless guy on the internet who says, "nu-uh"

Mmmmm, yeaaaaaaah

[herrob101]

what movie is this

[Blackrain4xmas]

courtesy: Black Hawk Down

[Stink808]

Night Stalkers Don't Quit

[blackhawkpilot4]

Best movie EVER... HANDS DOWN!!!

[kpcpcpc]

this jackass libtard blackrain needs to get a clue and some common sense. Abandonment??? no sorry dumb ass to abandon something means you had and obligation to take care of someone or something and then left them or it behind. We had zero obligation in Vietnam, Beirut, Iraq or Somalia.

[man11withaplan]

@lol38810 Says the arrogant moron that cannot use proper punctuations :-)

[lol38810]

@man11withaplan SAYS the american who goes 24/7 to mcdonalds

[CRiehl502]

@lol38810

wow i really wish there weren't so many stupid people like yourself on youtube... i really do

[man11withaplan]

@lol38810 And by the way, it is not propaganda, it is called recorded history. There was a Michael Durant that was captured and later released. Get your facts straight.

[lol38810]

US propaganda

[SR22Pers]

amazing movie

[bignass04]

My uncle was at (what was then) Blackwater Camp for a weekend. It's a private training camp for military and law enforcement. He heard from a ranger in the same unit that when the helicopter did that flyover, they were playing Hells Bells as they approached because it was Durant's favorite song.