U.S. military investigates leaked photo (of 190 Taliban militants at funeral/cemetery. MOAB Time!)

AP on Yahoo ^ | 9/13/06 | Paul Garwood - ap

[SE Mom]

The enemy within..

[DoctorMichael]

I agree 100% with the intent of your post as an answer to whether we should have abided by "rules of battlefield engagement".

Sometimes I wonder if we've got the stomach to win this war. Given a reversal of roles, I wonder whether the al Qaeda would have walked away from the chance to ambush a group of American soldiers performing a battlefield burial.

[Criminal Number 18F]

Governor Tanweel (Taniwal) was a good mo fo. He's the guy whose funeral that was, in your post, and he too was murdered by the TB. He took the job even though a prominent warlord (who helped us overthrow the TB) wanted it badly enough to start attacking him.

I am out of the loop now, and don't know if the scumbag that whacked my man Tanweel was a TB (probably), AQ (maybe), or warlord guy (the last, not very likely, by not impossible).

The warlord (Pacha Khan Zadran) is as big a piece of donkey dung as ever dropped along an Afghan trail. Unfortunately he is very typical of Afghan "leaders."

d.o.l.

Criminal Number 18F

[mewzilla]

Judge Napolitano was on FNC a little while ago. According to the Judge, the strike was disallowed because of an agreement between Karzai and our State Department that doesn't permit strikes on cemeteries within Afghanistan. It wasn't some JAG, according to the Judge's sources, or some law. And the agreement is only with Afghanistan. The pic has probably been leaked by some CIA guy who took exception to allowing 190 terrorists to get away.

And oddly enough, I don't see the MSM coming to this whistleblower's rescue....

[clintonh8r]

I guess we aren't really at war after all.....

[racing fan]

I guess we aren't really at war after all.....
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I don't think we are at war at all. Bush doesn't seem think we are either. I know Condi doesn't at all. Too bad Bush doesn't grow a spine.

[SideoutFred]

ping

[M. Dodge Thomas]

IMO, that we OUGHT to release that photo, in fact we ought to FLOOD the Middle East with that photo, printed right beside an “after” photo of the funeral that was hit by a suicide bomber in Iraq the other day, “See Abdul, even the Americans don't bomb funerals”. We have to abide by at least some minimal rules of engagement - it's one of the things that sets us aside from the “terrorists” - and we ought at least to take whatever advantage we can from abiding by them.