Posted on 04/12/2011 7:25:35 PM PDT by Zhang Fei
Several Taliban detainees who had been captured in February after being observed placing bombs in the culverts of roads used by civilians and military convoys near Kandahar were fed, given medical treatment, then released by American troops frustrated by a policy they say is forcing them to kick loose enemies who are trying to kill them.
Despite what American soldiers say was a mountain of evidence, which included a video of the men planting the bomb and chemical traces found on their hands, there was nothing the soldiers who had captured them could do but feed and care for them for 96 hours and then set them free.
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I can not imagine how the ROEs will be in Libya. Best bet, use RPVs.
Simple, take no prisioners!
You can’t release a dead man!
ping
Word: Obama.
Easy enough to circumvent. No prisoners! Lawrence! Rules of Engagement. No prisoners!
This just another aspect of the nobama WTF plan. nobama wants to eliminate from our society our best and brightest. nobama is a hate crime.
We know a young Marine who just lost both legs and some fingers due to an ied in Afghanistan . If we aren’t going to let them fight we need to bring them home. The men in this article that were caught placing bombs should have been shot on the spot.
Yep....but if they are told not to shoot....I want them back home period. No grey area on this.
Where are our representatives in congress, the news media and anywhere else that someone can raise a stink about this
absurd travesty? This is no acceptable and if voters had a clue this was happening
they would maybe finally throw the trash out.
Our soldiers in the field must be livid! Where is all the noise that this stupidity should be making?
The Stryker Kill Team got into trouble for that. Solution: don't even take pictures, don't even take notes, and don't EVER talk about what you do outside the unit.
The Stryker Kill Team got into trouble for that. Solution: don't even take pictures, don't even take notes, and don't EVER talk about what you do outside the unit.
Sounds like Fight Club.
So our ROE is SSS*
Shoot, Shovel, Shut-up
PetraeusIdiot? =.=
Why DOD allows cameras on patrol I will never know.
They will probably be modified after the 1939 French ROE
No killing the enemy... why again are we there?
Thanks for posting. I sent this to my Congressman as one more reason why Obama needs to be impeached.
we have no Osama to show for any of this...time to either put our efforts to actually getting Bin Laden...or get the frig out....and do it NOW!!!!
Grrrrrrr!!!
My son will turn 21 in Afghanistan. I told him that when he got his midtour leave I will throw him a huge Keg party.
After he was briefed on th ROE, he told me forget about the keg party, plan a funeral. Nice, ha?
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