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Good points.  

Regarding the taxi shooting, its my understanding is that any vehicle that gets too close to our forces is shot up, particularly after a IED attack.  I doubt the soldiers on the ground make fine distinctions about the rules of engagement at that point.  Just shoot and justify it later.

The point about Fallujah is worth restating.  This became the policy only after Bush and Rumfeld overreacted to the deaths of those four civilian mercs.  The commander at the time resisted and later criticized the attack he was required to carry out.  So, the shoot first and ask questions later approach came down from the highest levels of our government.  Local ground commanders were ignored.  Rumsfeld wanted to punish Fallujah because of the bad PR the story about the dead mercs had given the Bush administration.  It was a reprisal policy, and served no purpose other than to boost the reputation of the political leaders back in the US with their base supporters.  Sad to say, but there are many here who will cheer Bush and Rummy anytime a Fallujah type operation is carried out.

John McCain hates my wife because she's a "gook."

by Steven D on Sun Jun 11th, 2006 at 11:56:37 AM EST
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"Collective Punishment" it's been coming up alot. It's been the "excuse" for why check points are mostly target practices for our "honorable heroes". Why pregnant women are shot in the stomach as they try to enter the one last remaining Maternity Clinic in Baghdad.

It's the new reason for house raids... and now Haditha.

Collective Punishment.

It's a term used in the bible.

It's now a term being used here in the states and not just in NOLA. Got a drug problem in your neighborhood. Collective Punishment means that all the kids coming home from school can be questioned, searched. It means all cars can be stopped. It means...

House Raids. - Here in American.

Feel More Free?

When the power of love overcomes the love of power the world will know peace. - Jimi Hendrix

by Damnit Janet on Sun Jun 11th, 2006 at 12:01:24 PM EST
[ Parent ]
got a copy of the Constitution from the Electronic Freedom Foundation (EFF) when she interned for them last summer; she keeps it at the very top of her daypack for when it's searched at school for drugs...makes a subtle but direct point with the searchers. :)

"Innocent till proven guilty" -- nice words, but they're just as "quaint" as the Geneva Convention...

-- Walking In Darkness --

by Cali Scribe on Sun Jun 11th, 2006 at 12:49:15 PM EST
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Collective punishment essentially has been our policy in Anbar for some time.  Fallujah was only the most extreme example.  And I hear we are planning a similar operation against Ramadi now.

John McCain hates my wife because she's a "gook."
by Steven D on Sun Jun 11th, 2006 at 12:18:03 PM EST
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