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Originally Posted by The Reaper
It would appear to be insane, but remember the wedding party that was hit?
All it takes is for the Taliban to show up for the funeral with their families and if we strike, the MSM has their anti-US news for two weeks.
Frankly, it makes me wonder why we did not anticpate this and swoop in with an armed reception committee about 30 seconds after they finish shoveling. Then we could sort out the good from the bad and send more people to Gitmo after we vacuum their brains.
TR
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I hear what you're saying sir, but all the same: Now they're using this as ammo. It would have been better to have dropped a few thousand pounds of TNT on them. The military and administration would still get flak over it, but at least there would have been a hundred dead Taliban.
Also, now that it's public that we're not going to be hitting Taliban funerals, I think we've given them a propaganda weapon to use against us later. Every group of Talibans we bomb will have suddenly been involved in some funeral rite and we'll be the bad guys for violating our own ROE's.
Also, since when do we not wage war in cemeteries? Did we not blow the crap out the insurgents in the Najaf cemetery a year or two ago? Is this an Afghanistan only ROE?
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"How can a pacifist, tolerant anti-violence, anti-hunting, anti Second Amendment, anti-self-defense group turn to violence against a party that is pro- all of that?" - The Reaper, 11Oct04 14:42hrs
Last edited by Bravo1-3; 09-14-2006 at 01:48.
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