Reply #160: Not changing my mind [View All]

[DissedByBush]

"simply don't have enough leeway to shoot at will, then nothing anyone says is going to change your mind"

Your personal observation. Okay. How many veterans do you know. How many have you talked to after they came back? How many Kosovo vets do you know? How many have you talked to? The number is pretty high for me. Are you yourself a war veteran? I am. At least in Daddy's war for oil there were clear ROE, since it was more like the standard war: you here, enemy there, attack. Now we are fighting among civilians. Normally our troops can deal with that, except the enemy dresses as those same civilians and often uses them for protection.

Your car at the checkpoint? It exhibited all of the traits of a approaching car bomb. And notice how much flak they catch from people like you for trying to protect themselves -- that's why the ROE keeps getting restricted. You put the pressure on the politicians, the politicians tighten the ROE, our troops get killed. Thank you. The enemy fires on us from a building, we return fire, escalate fire as we're pinned down, maybe have to bring in air support, innocents in the building are killed and you blame our troops?

And you are deluded if you think our servicemembers would ever purposely drop a bomb on a residential area without reason, like if the enemy yet again is using civilians as a shield. Even then we avoid such things as much as possible.

We know Bush doesn't care about one life lost, Iraqi or American. But don't put that on our troops.