If he does, I will go to church and light a candle!
Does this mean Obama is going to change his failed Afghanistan policy?
It would be nice if we took off the handcuffs on our troops and you didn’t need a special dispensation from the Pope to draw your firearm. It would also be nice if we didn’t broadcast our strategy in advance to the enemy.
It better not be what Obama wants!!!....Reading them their civil rights!!!
No point in wasting lives or dollars with our current ROE.
If Petraeus changes the rules of engagement, the Secret Service will have to stop him from sending a platoon to the White House.
So killing the enemy will now be authorized?
“Kill ‘em all, let God sort it out” has always been effective at ending wars.
Praise the Lord!
If any member of the Armed Forces of the United States of America thinks the enemy needs killin', the enemy needs killin'
Current ROE are ridiculous and make it impossible to actually win a war. If we are going to fight, we should fight to win. Kill the enemy, wherever they are. If they hold their weapons caches and safehouses in churches and hospitals then they must be destroyed. It’s regrettable but it has to happen. Geneva rules are clear on where the blame falls for civilian casualties in those cases - it’s on the people who put the civilians in harms way in the first place. By putting the gloves of “no attack zones” on our soldiers we virtually guarantee the war will never end.
If we’re not going to fight to win, we should not fight. All that accomplishes is to get our troops killed.
You mean American soldiers will now be permitted to actually FIGHT and DEFEND THEMSELVES?? Hussein CAN’T be happy about THAT!!
I have believed that from the beginning, the pharaoh needed someone to take the fall for those idiot “rules of engagement”.
I am sure it will work with the media and the sheep that graze on their manure, but the old dogs in the military know that it all came directly from the White House.
This one may still get very interesting before the end of summer.
New Obama ROEs:
1. On Monday, Wednesday, Fridays: soldiers permitted ammo
2. On Tue, Thursday, Saturday: Soldiers permitted body armor.
3. Alterante Sundays troops must stand on Kandahar street corner without weapons or armor with arms outstretched and chests bared with bullseye painted over hearts.
4. Christmas: must enter Allah Beheading Raffle. Winners get gift-wrapped heads-in-boxes from Islam of Misfit Toys.
5. Easter: Bridge hanging Contest. Troops turned over to Fallujah/Samarra type jihadists for spread-eagling on bridge abutments.
6. Obama gets secret video via UPS.
Instead of killing the Taliban, we're going to grant them citizenship, register them as Democrats and hand out absentee ballots.
Bush’s general, ergo Bush’s fault no matter what the changes turn out to be.
Heads up (( ping )).
If it is to allow the soldiers to fight and perhaps win, then McCrystal has had a win in my book.
My bet is that Petraeus used that leverage, demanding changes in the ROE or he wasn't going to take that job. The backstabbing is yet to come.