Polish Snipers in Iraq

[PeriscopeDepth]

http://tigerhawk.blogspot.com/2006/0...excellent.html

I was going to post this after I came upon that piece of info while reading Fiasco, but forgot. Interesting that Army units prefer to have a Polish sniper along with them to get around the ROE.

PD

[bradclark1]

Our leadership would rather have 4 dead Americans than 1 dead Iraqi I guess.

[CCIP]

Originally Posted by bradclark1

Our leadership would rather have 4 dead Americans than 1 dead Iraqi I guess.

Well statistically there are a lot more dead Iraqis than dead Americans, so that's not a very accurate argument...

[PeriscopeDepth]

I think we are scared to DEATH of offending people. While in one my university classes a year and a half ago that included panelists concerning the GWOT, I listened to several Marine officers responding to a question from a student who was concerned about collateral damage/civllian death. The Marines responded with a story that spoke of US military restraint to a degree of foolishness: while in contact with insurgent fighters and under mortar fire, an officer told us that he had watched a man with a cell phone in a Mosque minnaret calling down mortar fire on the Marines. Yet he could not do anything about it under ROE, because to fire on a mosque you had to be taking direct fire from the building. And even then you had to go through several chains of command before getting approval. What's the point of a military if they can't do their job because we're afraid of offending people?

PD

Doesn't surprise me that US is using Poles to bend the rules of combat in Iraq, they've used 'extraordinidary renditions' too. Maybe this is why the whole 'mother of all coalitions' was needed in the first place.

[Dowly]

A person having a cellphone in his hand after 8pm is a valid target? Right... this is getting ridiculous...

[bradclark1]

Originally Posted by CCIP

Well statistically there are a lot more dead Iraqis than dead Americans, so that's not a very accurate argument...

Screw statistics! It's not about statistics. It's about tying our peoples hands to the point they can't react unless some of them are killed so it's a very accurate argument. Lets be clear, 20 dead Iraqis aren't worth one dead American because of politics which endangers our people. If it looks like a duck and walks like a duck it's a duck. Shoot it!