On Feb 11, 10:02*pm, cavelamb wrote:
Too_Many_Tools wrote:
On Feb 10, 3:21 pm, cavelamb wrote:
(CNN) -- Former congressman Charlie Wilson of Texas died Wednesday at age 76, a
Texas hospital said.

The 12-term Democratic congressman, who served Texas' 2nd Congressional
district, was pronounced dead at 12:16 p.m. after suffering cardiopulmonary
arrest in the emergency room of Memorial Health System of East Texas, the Lufkin
hospital said in a news release.

Semi-on topic due to the amount of metal sent to Afghanistan during the Russian
occupation?

And all the metal that we are having to deal with now.

American weapons killing American soldiers.

It gives the word "irony" a new meaning.

TMT

Not at all.
That was all used up a decade ago.

I think this is mostly Soviet supplied stuff now.- Hide quoted text -

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You sure about that?

The Government isn't.

http://www.rferl.org/content/article/1057196.html

And some background...

http://www.slate.com/id/116582/

Yes there is Soviet equivalents out there along with others.

But the American Stingers are still a threat.

TMT