I'm not a combat vet, and maybe I'm wrong, but it seems that the US has to stop worrying about collaterol damage and start worrying about its own troops. I've read a lot of the postings from you guys about how you were told not to fire at certain positions due to possible civie casualties and have seen the results from Lebenon, the USS Cole, Somalia, etc. and I just don't understand the attitude of the High Command. Whatever happened to "Shoot first, and ask questions later!"?
I felt that we did the right thing during Desert Storm I when we caught the Iraqi military flat-footed and in the open on that highway and bombed the hell out of them, that is, until George I had them back off when we had them by the balls. If he had let Schwartkopf (sp) continue the war to its inevitable conslusion we wouldn't be in the sh*t-storm we're in today over there.
If you're going to fight a war, then DO IT!!! ALL OUT, NO HOLDS BARRED!!!
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