[TomasUSMC]

This will show you why we are so screwed up in Iraq now.

Marine Corps commanders said they planned no change in their long-term tactics in Fallujah as a result of the deaths yesterday. Major General James Mattis, commanding the First Marine Division, has told troops that the test of their mettle will be not to lash back at the Iraqis because of casualties.

To the division's classic motto, "No better friend, no worse enemy," Mattis has affixed a preface for the mission in the Anbar Province, which includes Fallujah: "First, do no harm."

FIRST DO NO HARM. Now in the nastiest crap hole on earth with RPGs and mines and bullets flying like hail our brave Marines are being ordered by their commanding officer:

FIRST DO NO HARM.

that is treason. That is insane. Major General James Mattis should be thrown in the brig at once.

[lawdog]

FIRST DO NO HARM.
SH##, it is worse than I thought. This dip-sh#$ thinks he's running a boys school for doctors. Chesty Puller is rollin' in his grave !

[Robert_Paulson2]

i agree.