U.S. declines Taliban funeral target

AP on Yahoo ^ | 9/13/06 | Lolita Baldor - ap

[Cobra64]

Epitome of stupidity and gutlessness. We let 190 murderers live so they can live another day to shoot our guys?!

We were not targeting cemetaries, the enemy just happened to be in a cemetary.

America is not fighting a war. We're JO'n the PC crowd while our guys get shot at by the enemy that could have been taken out with the press of a button.

Hey general!

[King Moonracer]

Yes. Quite, quite the civilized little altercation, here. Lets have Johnny Turk around for some tea, and see if we can't solve the bloody Wog problem. White mans burden and all....

[tobyhill]

I don't want Rumsfeld fired I want the President to tell Rumsfeld that he would pardon anyone engaged with the enemy that is accused of wrongdoing while doing it no matter how ugly the incident is made out by the terrorist, rats or MSM.

[frankiep]

I think that it's been pretty obvious for quite some time that the answer is NO.

[Cobra64]

Oh, how sweet. Of course, they would return the favor, right?

They did 5 years ago.

[hinckley buzzard]

Not a way to win a war. Get 'em when you see 'em.

They expect us to attack if we can. This rule gives them a gift they don't even expect. The West needs to wage this war with ruthless determination. Else, we can lose this war, the european way, one simpering concession at a time, while our military is stifled by lawyers and State Department jerks, until anything but Sharia law is a hate crime.

[the anti-liberal]

What Arab Civilization?

[Viking2002]

Gawd Almighty. What a wasted opportunity for the sake of moral equivocation. Those Klingons would kill babies in their cribs if given the chance and we offer them a timeout in the corner of the school room. And what a no-fuss, all-in-one way to dispose of them, to boot. They're already in the boneyard - just make a hole and blow 'em into it.

[expatpat]

I think the junior lawyers in the Services are the real problem.

[Pete98]

So now the enemy knows they can hold all their high-level meetings and plan attacks in cemetaries, with no worries about being hit by the US.

[DejaJude]

NBC News claimed U.S. Army officers wanted to attack the ceremony with missiles carried by an unmanned Predator drone but were prevented under rules of battlefield engagement that bar attacks on cemeteries.

Is NBC making this up, or are there actual written rules about this?

[edpc]

So now we don't fight on holy ground? Who are we battling.....al Qaeda or the Highlander?

[cowdog77]

"Tell me, are there any men left in Washington, or are they all cowards?"

[04-Bravo]

If it was up to me, I would hit them even if they were hiding in a mosque.

[buck61]

If the drone was in the area and, I believe it was, why didn't they fire its missile after the funeral?
This is what we get when people who have never served in the military make the rules for engagement.

[Star Traveler]

The article said -- "The U.S. military acknowledged Wednesday that it considered bombing a group of more than 100 Taliban insurgents in southern Afghanistan but decided not to after determining they were on the grounds of a cemetery."

Man..., we could have killed and buried them at the same time. Some people just don't know how to fight a war.

Regards,
Star Traveler

[Natural Law]

On the front line we expect combat troops to make sacrifices for the cause. Some REMF obviously put their career above the objectives of winning the war. Any deaths or injuries committed by the funeral attendees in on the hands of those who did not sieze the moment.

[Uncle Vlad]

Makes you wonder how many good Marines or soldiers will get killed by this vermin because someone didn't take the shot.

[Old_Mil]

I'm sure that there were cemeteries in Berlin.

Vietnam, version 2.0

[cowdog77]

"Vietnam, version 2.0"
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Yep, (sigh)...shades of the same it would appear.