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No it wouldn't. And even contemplating that it would be shows you have a sickness that you should seek treatment for.

If one has information pertaining to the threat you mitigate the threat, you don't resort to barbarian techniques to get information, that would likely be a lie anyway. But hey, next time I have a tough question for you I'll ask you for your wife's or girlfriends name and address ok. Cause you think it's ok.

poohbah, pukin dog,

I know the LTC West thing is over now but you should at least see what this yahoo replied in post #16.

Well, we have ONE guy who cowboyed up for the question, "Where does it end?" His answer: it doesn't.

Everyone else ran away as fast as they could when asked. Nobody wanted to touch it. Gosh, I wonder why.

Well, congrats, while you were "mitigating threats" and stroking your ponderous moral code, the chopper was rocketed and now 12 of you men are dead, but that's a small price to pay to maintain your sense of fair play. I'm sure their families are glad you have such character and integrity.

In the other Col. West thread, I asked you questions that you declined to answer:

In the News/Activism forum, on a thread titled Army Right To Punish Lt. Col. West, jaykay wrote:

How many ambushes, rockets fired at helicopters, roadside bombs and other attacks on U.S. forces may have been averted if more officers had the onions that Col West has? How many who are dead would be alive? How many maimed would be whole?

Now that Col. West has been made an example of, how many commanders who would have taken a risk to protect their men will now decline to do so? How many will be killed and maimed in order to preserve this idiotic notion of playing nice at war?

I guess those questions are not so easy for you to answer so glibly. Maybe you can think of the answers while you help scrape up what's left of the 12 who died for your rulebook.