Mike Durant

We took all the AC-130s out.

And I've been argued by other people within our community that the AC-130s wouldn't have made a difference.

Sorry, fellas, you're freaking wrong.

They wouldn't have made a difference, OK?

Because I was in captivity when they came back, and the Somalis were scared to death of them.

And by the way, that's kind of what you want.

You want your enemy to be scared to death of the assets that you have.

Well, because we had been pulling shit out.

And Aspen's like, we're telling the American people we're cleaning this up.

We're about to finish.

We're not sending shit back in.

That was his rationale.

And there's a letter that just got released within the last two years from one of the generals on the ground in Somalia saying,

to the leadership in Washington saying, we don't have control of the situation.

Something bad is going to happen and we need more assets or we need to say, we're done.

I mean, you know, if the priority wasn't high enough to give us more assets, then get us the hell out.

You know, I mean, you can't have it both ways.

You can't give us a mission and then not give us the shit we need to be successful in that mission.

So there's three things, and I want to make sure I don't forget about this, because to me, this is what motivates me to keep talking about this thing.

There are three, actually, there's four things that we got screwed over on.