Obama expresses sorrow for 31 US troops killed in Afghan crash

The Hill ^ | August 8, 2011 | Alexander Bolton

[yoe]

President Obama praised the sacrifice of 31 U.S. troops who died early Saturday morning in helicopter crash in Wardak Province, Afghanistan.

The Taliban has claimed it shot down the aircraft with a rocket-propelled grenade. Seven Afghan soldiers on board the helicopter also died.

My thoughts and prayers go out to the families and loved ones of the Americans who were lost earlier today in Afghanistan,” Obama said in a statement. “Their deaths are a reminder of the extraordinary sacrifices made by the men and women of our military and their families, including all who have served in Afghanistan.”

Obama said their deaths would be not be in vain.

“We will draw inspiration from their lives, and continue the work of securing our country and standing up for the values that they embodied,” he said.

ABC News reported the crash killed as many as 25 Navy Seals, the elite force that specializes in commando raids, such as the one that killed Osama bin Laden earlier this year.

It is the most casualties American forces have suffered in a single day in Afghanistan.

[Terry Mross]

This is obama’s gift to the muslims for ramadan. Sad that I would think that about a U.S. president and really mean it.

[TigersEye]

...and continue the work of securing our country...

Our country? You're not doing anything to secure our country. Open borders, still, arming Mexican drug cartels, suing states trying to defend against illegal alien invaders, trashing our economy in historic style ...

[AD from SpringBay]

Drudge has it that the copter was shot down. Was it a crash?

[Doc Savage]

Party On Bro Barry!..., the Champagne is getting warm and the Kobe Beef cold! More hip-hop! More everything! Let’s Party!

[Art in Idaho]

We're all Oathkeepers now.

[yoe]

"...when he wrote in “Audacity Of Hope”"

Obama wrote very little of that book....Bill Ayers was his ghost writer.

[Colonel_Flagg]

He’s probably just bummed out we didn’t lose a C-130.

[Coldwater Creek]

I couldn’t have said better!

[skimbell]

[unkus]

FUBO!!!

[Sacajaweau]

The info we put out made them a target!! Damn....

[unkus]

I should not say what I am thinking

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Same here. The fbi and ss would be at my door in about 2 minutes.

[NoRedTape]

"I don’t believe a word the man says."

No one does. Well, except for the cerebrally-challenged liberal fools.

[paratrooper82]

The truth cuts the swiftest to the bone!

[MayflowerMadam]

“Obama wrote very little of that book....Bill Ayers was his ghost writer.”

Yes; I know that. But Hussein read, approved, took credit for, and slapped his name on, the book. It’s his book for all intents and purposes.

[paratrooper82]

The scuttlebutt is the Seals were set up and killed! Inside job!

[onedoug]

On purpose.

[petitfour]

This is a FUBAR to the TOP. Who put all of those guys on one helicopter????

[cicero2k]

This is so 1979.

Helicopter disaster.
Nuclear meltdown.
Liberal inept president.
NASA in decline.
Economic crisis.

Hopefully a conservatve revolution at the end of this painful era also.

[RetiredArmy]

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Some sorrow. Next week he will continue to push for pay cuts for the military, more and more benefits, health care, retirement taken away. In 10 years we will not have many military people seeking a career. Why suffer for 20 years on a bunch of empty promises. That is what my generation did. All those so called promises they promised, now renege on. Sure. Great and wonderful US government doesn't give a dog's rear end about the military personnel. THEY ARE IN IT FOR THEIR OWN PERSONAL POWER AND GAIN!!!!! NOTHING ELSE!!!!! They don't care about the military. They come on camera and whine what this garbage bag president just did. BUT HE DOES NOT CARE!!! No one in the stinking dimocrat party cares about the military. Klintons proved their hate of the military.