I am sick to my stomach about this.Why they couldn't do an internal review and end it there is beyond me. Will a Marine please explain this one to me. I could care less if he killed the insurgents, armed, not armed...they are INSURGENTS ,not enemy soldiers. I am a total loss on this one.
In the old days, officers and NCO's were paid to be LEADERS!!! Now, we are paid to be "managers", not leaders. Initiative has been written out of the "game plan" for our military's leaders. The DOD wants us to be "agressive", yet to utilize "restraint"...diametrically opposed concepts if you ask me!
I haven't been to Iraq...yet, but have been on the "volunteer" list for over three years (...have been told there's not a "great need for Reserve armor officers...right now), and I know this: if it comes to a situation where a bunch of "hadji's" are in a car, acting suscpiciously, and they've been told to get out of the car, slow down the car, or hit the dirt, and they DON'T, or they even so much as make a movement that I percieve to be "threatening or hostile"...TAP TAP, will be the last sound they hear!
This P.C. crap in the military, just turns my stomach! The DOD needs to make up it's freakin mind whether it wants managers, or leaders...a big difference. P.C. doesn't belong anywhere near the military, that's for tree hugging, birkenstock wearing, pinko, commie liberals! We're in a war...let the guys on the ground "shoot first, then ask questions later", so they can come home vertically!
they are INSURGENTS"
It's funny how the hated MSM can make even Freepers become PC.