"British troops in Iraq "lack the confidence to open fire" because of a "fear of prosecution", says a confidential Ministry of Defence (MoD) report seen by The Sunday Telegraph.
It confirms that soldiers believe that if they shoot dead insurgents they will become embroiled in a "protracted investigation" and if prosecuted will receive "no support from the chain of command"."
One of the greatest achievements of worldwide Russian subversion in our time. Don't think these kind of thoughts are not also on the minds of American soldiers.
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"An MoD spokesman said: "Soldiers have nothing to fear from the investigation of incidents, so long as they act within their rules of engagement. The Armed Forces can also be certain that they will always receive the full support of the chain of command."
That's all right then.
When the subversives started launching the attack to achieve this type of end with our American troops in Iraq (i.e. Pantano, etc.) I started to think about police and soldiers. If you look at the casualty figures for police, compared to soldiers, the casualties are minuscule. Yet, police have huge levels of stress. Why? Precisely because police are constrained by incredibly constricting rules of engagement.
Probably most freepers feel the rules of engagement on police are overly strict. Nonetheless, we will generally except that police do need to be subject to some kind of fairly strong rules of engagement.
What the subversives have done (and really, I have to give these scumbag/snakes credit for the surface effectiveness of their pseudo logic here) is to, first, equate police work with soldiery. Then, they have gone about trying to create rules of engagement for our soldiers that are roughly equal to the rules of engagement for our police.
What would be handy, is for some people with dual experience---infantry combat and police work---to quickly put out a nice little book on this subject---exposing just what these lying scumbag snakes are trying to do, which is to get our soldiers killed, and to disarm the US military, so they cannot hurt anybody.
Shouldn't that be: 'shoot insurgents dead' ??
I love this bit of classic British understatement: "The MoD has been consistently economical with the truth on this matter."
And the MoD proves it in their statement at the end of the article. What comfort is there in being let off "for lack of evidence" after a THREE YEAR investigation? Who the hell is going to risk having that happen to them?
And these same British troops go home and slander our guys for not knowing what to do. Unbelievable.
Now you know why the U.S. refuses to join the International Criminal Court.
How stupid is it of a news organization to announce to the world that British troops are afraid to shoot back?
If there is a rise in violence against British troops they are to blame.
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The problem is not the soldiers...
The British Army pound for pound is the equal of any on earth and superior to all but a very few.
It is the PC culture writ large now even affecting war.
God we need a Tory govt here...
The left will do anything to destroy the military and make sure that we lose this war on terror.
Semper Fi'
Jarhead