You can hear the report at the NPR link.
This is nothing new. Been happening since at least Desert Storm, probably much earlier.
The whole idea of war is insane to begin with. Once however that avenue has been taken, restrictions on how you fight a war and what is inclusive or exclusive in executing that war to achieve the disired end result is also insane.
I only wish people would become totally honest and lay out the rules of engagement sans the Geneva Convention. Murders do occur during war and not always nicely and neatly.
America ought to lay out the rules since we don't exactly fit in with the EU and the UN's rules to begin with.
Those rules should say that if America is threatened and takes hostile action to prevent the killing of American citizens, we will do so quickly, and with all the force necessary to quell the antagonist and we will USE OUR OWN RULES in doing so in order to bring the engagement to a quick end and prevent the murder of our armed forces in that engagement.
All I am saying is, it is about time we think about the death of our troops and stop thinking about "hard feelings" by those perfumed international bureaucratic officials who obtain their livelehood from attending meetings.
Furthermore, I am getting sick and tired of hearing of the deaths of our hereos on a daily basis while the men in suits discuss what is proper and what is improper.
Lawyers are weird enough, but I know that there are also several US Marshalls stationed in Iraq, and I can't really figure out why.
Yet more lawyers, bump.