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| quote: | Originally posted by Provocative_boi
whats your opinon on this?
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Whose telling the truth the forces or the locals? |
Ohnoes... Topic about to go off the rail again.
Anyways,
By the sounds of it, the Americans were following the rules of engagement. Clear marked signs, visual and audio warning, failing that warning shot. After that, lethal force authorized. (point to note that Rules of Engagement differs from places to places, and unit standard operating procedures, etc. Also, nothing prohibits any soldier from using lethal force to protect themselves and members of their unit, allied forces. At least, I haven't heard of any RoE stated otherwise, even during most peaceful peacekeeping operations)
Points to consider
-Americans do not know who's in the car. Pregnant woman, a terrorist, could be anyone in there. All they saw was a car going really fast towards them and not heeding their warnings to stop.
-While we can sympathize with the Iraqi man going to the hospital to help his sister and it is quite possible that he's so concentrating on getting his sister to the hospital as fast as possible so he did not see the warnings.
-The Americans, being under constant IED and suicide bombers attacking their checkpoints, cannot take the risk of being hit by another suicide bombers. Having delivered reasonable amount of warnings, they were justified in using lethal force to try to stop the vehicle.
End result in this tragic incident is that nobody won.
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| quote: | Originally posted by chinamon
not true. i say "ugh"
but i am a tranny. |
| quote: | Originally posted by kotsy
lol colour me retarded |
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