[wbarmy]

So what?

If rounds are coming from the hospital, then the doctors and nurses in there, who can hear the firing, need to get out.

Counter-battery fire does not look at the target, it just goes to where the rounds came from.

[Gaffer]

Doctors without Borders has acknowledged that it treated wounded Taliban fighters at the Kunduz hospital, but it insists no weapons were allowed in. Afghans who worked at the hospital have told the AP that no one was firing from within.

Given what Taliban and other Muslim Jihadists throughout the Mideast have done to their "volunteers" this was a very unwise decision on their part.

[plangent]

Other than an assertion that analysts knew the site was a hospital, there is absolutely no other substantiation. No quotes stating that it was a hospital, anonymous or otherwise.

My understanding is that it was not clearly marked out as a hospital with distinctive Red Crescent or Red Cross painted on its roof. Even one of the ground combatants, who described the firefight as the worst in his life, didn’t identify the place as a hospital.

[iontheball]

Another Obummer effort to demoralize our warriors. If this was a C-130 gunship our men darn well knew the threat target. This administration’s jumping in to take the side of the enemy versus our fighters is so disheartening I just want to scream.

[OttawaFreeper]

It’s probably a silly thing to make mention of, but can you imagine if this took place under Bush instead of the rich boy from Honolulu? There would be wall to wall coverage from the media and late night comedians demanding Bush to be drawn and quartered publicly for this incident.

[Jim Noble]

Fighting our enemies (Saudi Arabia and Pakistan) by getting our guys pointlessly killed in Afghanistan and Iraq was military malpractice on an historical scale.