[Romulus]

Hersh is a leftie, but I don't care. Point 1: I don't think he's making this stuff up. Point 2: The vagueness of the Pentagon's report on this encounter, and the speed with which it vanished from view, made me suspicious from the get-go that all had not gone according to plan.

I don't doubt the valor of the men going in on these hazardous missions, but neither do I expect 100% success. In examining the Pentagon's happy talk, Hersh is doing his job.

[Ax]

Seymour Hersh, in my experience, has been spot on with some of his reporting. He has excellent sources. He has published items which I had never expected to see without bright red TOP SECRET/CAVEATS stamped top and bottom of each page, and NOT in an open forum.

[jwalsh07]

Delta is a secret force. We don't have a need to know and neither does Seymour. They will always take casualties, their job is high risk but the tone of this article i s meant to do one thing only, sow dissent with the military and their efforts and from what I've seen here, Ole Seymour is pretty damn good at it.

[Ditto]

In examining the Pentagon's happy talk, Hersh is doing his job.

You could be right, or it could be that Hersh is just pumping his old PR game up. I was only pointing out that the guy does have a checkered past. If they really had 12 wounded, why would the Pentagon try to hide that? They could still claim a successful mission if it was or not, hand out some ribbons and make some hereos. And I don't think any Spec.Ops. officer would ever publically say they had the 'crap' scared out of them. That seems over the top to me, which is what Hersh has taken fire for in the past. He gets a few 'nuggets' and then weaves the rest around it.

[M. Thatcher]

I don't think he's making this stuff up

Oh, PUH-LEEEEZE. The idea of the DELTA FORCE being surprised, much less scared, much less having the crap scared out of it, because the enemy fights back is completely looney tunes. Every word of this "report" is a lie, including "a" and "the."