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Originally Posted by Howitzer
One thing about Black Hawk Down that separates it from almost all military documentaries: it was well researched, the Army, Army Rangers, Army 10th Mountain commanders gave the almost full blessing to the soldiers to tell the story because unlike other documentaries the Army Rangers want it immortalized because it was truly a triumphant moment it may seem different to others but there was a lot of ass kickin going on despite grim odds of survival.
Read the book Battle of Mogadishu, ***** I'll mail ya an autographed copy...you pay the postage.
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Hey, that's a heck of an offer! You're on. I'll e-mail you later, it's late now.
I read Mark Bowden's newspaper series on it back in what, '97 or '98? Pretty spellbinding story.
It's hard to say at this point how much any of the Nam films were accurate or to what degree anyway. It's almost surreal to hear "W" talking about "revisionism" regarding that episode as he's heavey into revising himself, IMO.
It was interesting to hear Peragro here assert that the infamous statement "we had to destroy the village in order to save it" was just made up by Arnett when there is so much evidence that many villages were destroyed, for some reason or another.
Grand-daddy of modern conservatism, Goldwater, had a plan to destroy large chunks of the country in order to save it. It's a tough one -- people gonna be arguing about that one up til and on their death beds.