[pawdoggie]

This "story" smacks of the "only one MRE a day" crap we heard at the start of Operation IF. Obviously, if the Army has one set of ROE, and the Marines have another, then ROE isn't being dictated from the top. There are some force protection issues (like convoys escorted by armored vehicles) that need to be addressed (as they were in other conflicts), and the GIs need to learn that they have to be on guard (but not trigger-happy) in dealing with the locals. I like what their doing offering rewards for turning in enemy combatants. Fight Saddam's blood money (for killing Americans) with some of our own.

[theFIRMbss]

>Obviously, if the Army has one set of ROE, and the Marines have another, then ROE isn't being dictated from the top

I thought about this
last night, and I wondered if
political types

who have managed to
take charge of the Army might
purposefully put

engagement tactics
in place which cause GI deaths
because it makes Bush

look bad when the press
reports just the deaths, not the
overall context...

Are some branches of
the military run by
political blocs

directly controlled
by 'Rats, and others controlled
by Republicans?