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Soldiers told not to shoot Taliban bomb layers
Daily Telegraph (UK) ^ | 7/8/2011 | Andy Bloxham

Posted on 07/08/2011 7:01:17 PM PDT by 1066AD

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To: Virginia Ridgerunner

The Brits have gone “wobbly.”


21 posted on 07/08/2011 7:48:20 PM PDT by verity (The Obama Administration is a Criminal Enterprise.)
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To: tlb
Good point. When I learned about Morant’s history and the landing at Gallipoli, I learned that the troops always pay for staff bureaucratic stupidity.
22 posted on 07/08/2011 7:48:42 PM PDT by Navy Patriot (Holy flippin' crap, Sarah rocks the world!)
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To: knarf

Unfortunately our commander in chief appears to be Zapp Brannigan.

“Now, like all great plans, my strategy is so simple an idiot could have devised it. On my command all ships will line up and file directly into the alien death cannons, clogging them with wreckage.”


23 posted on 07/08/2011 7:50:36 PM PDT by cripplecreek (Remember the River Raisin! (look it up))
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To: 1066AD

Oh great......awesome to see that our lame ass ROE are still in effect. =.=


24 posted on 07/08/2011 7:52:25 PM PDT by cranked
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To: Gene Eric

The people laying the IEDs are usually nobodies who are paid to do it, or farmers who are threatened into doing it, or Taliban nobodies at the bottom of the food chain. In any event, they are never important people. The theory is that it’s preferrable to snatch these guys up and get intel to find a way up the food chain. That’s grunt stuff for the US forces.

If these guys are observed by Marine snipers, however, they’re dead, period.

I don’t know what the Brits do, but you would think all the allied forces would be on the same page.


25 posted on 07/08/2011 8:04:52 PM PDT by Lancey Howard
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To: 1066AD

you call this a war? Get us out of afghanistan, iraq, germany and japan, bring our soldiers home to guard our borders to the north and south.


26 posted on 07/08/2011 8:17:50 PM PDT by Coleus (Adult Stem Cells Work, there is NO Need to Harvest Babies for Their Body Parts!)
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To: 1066AD

Yes, bring ‘em all home.


27 posted on 07/08/2011 8:19:24 PM PDT by traviskicks (http://www.neoperspectives.com/Ron_Paul_2008.htm)
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To: 1066AD

Agree....


28 posted on 07/08/2011 8:20:07 PM PDT by Squantos (Be polite. Be professional. But have a plan to kill everyone you meet)
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To: 1066AD

Two words.
Green
Glass


29 posted on 07/08/2011 8:21:46 PM PDT by MestaMachine (Guns don't kill people, the obama administration does. (Gunwalker Ping List))
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To: Virginia Ridgerunner

Another reason the Brits lost the colonies. We didn’t fight fair. We fought to win, and did.

You would have thought that after 225+ years, the Brits would learn how to fight to win.


30 posted on 07/08/2011 8:22:18 PM PDT by MadMax, the Grinning Reaper
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To: Lancey Howard

Thanks, LH.


31 posted on 07/08/2011 8:34:24 PM PDT by Gene Eric (*** Jesus ***)
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To: Drill Thrawl
Why do we sent our brave men and women into harms way without the intention of winning?

Because a high bodycount without winning the war helps Democrat/RINO politics move forward.

You didn't think it was an accident, did you?

32 posted on 07/08/2011 10:05:06 PM PDT by Talisker (History will show the Illuminati won the ultimate Darwin Award.)
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To: 1066AD
"The existing policy of “courageous restraint” was led by the US General Stanley McChrystal 18 months ago and has been repeatedly criticized for leaving soldiers fighting “with one hand behind their backs”. "

A lot of people on here are quick to sing the praises of Gen. Stanley McC....I am not one of them.

33 posted on 07/08/2011 10:11:10 PM PDT by Tainan (Cogito Ergo Conservitus.)
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To: 1066AD
Wendy Rayner, 40, disclosed that in the days leading up to his death her husband been told that it was not his job to attack insurgents laying bombs

[Insert callous remark about keeping a stiff upper lip, and whether any was found, HERE]...

34 posted on 07/09/2011 3:39:27 AM PDT by FDNYRHEROES (It's 3 AM. Let me sleep on it. I'll get back to you in 16 hours.)
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To: 1066AD

Whoever is responsible for this b.s. should be used to detect land mines.


35 posted on 07/09/2011 3:49:58 AM PDT by Joe Boucher ((FUBO))
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To: 1066AD

I’m reading the posts at the Telegraph and blood pressure went up another notch.

“bromhead:

There is no doubt the rules of engagement are strict within the British Army. I remember being told we were allowed to shoot someone in the act of throwing a grenade at us, but not so once it has been thrown.”

Even the rules for sports aren’t this brainless.


36 posted on 07/09/2011 5:17:17 AM PDT by huldah1776
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To: RatRipper

This is a Specials Ops war...the IED planters may? have been under observation longer than the troops know...the commander in the air may need them alive to lead SF to the nest...one good possibility...weak I know, but possible!


37 posted on 07/09/2011 5:36:11 AM PDT by Turborules (`I am Proud to vote for Palin, anytime anywhere!)
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To: Sequoyah101

there is the lessons of the American west. We drive the natives out, or to disarmed and supervised reservations, and release the Conestoga wagons, settling the place via an offer of freedom, low taxes, and honest self government. With low taxes and honest self government come high birth rates.


38 posted on 07/09/2011 7:23:51 AM PDT by donmeaker (I)
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To: MadMax, the Grinning Reaper

You would have thought that after 225+ years, the Brits would learn how to fight to win.............................................. Since the turn of the 20th Century they learned, its simple, bring in the Americans.


39 posted on 07/09/2011 8:01:22 AM PDT by Bringbackthedraft (ea. a month)
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To: Virginia Ridgerunner

You know things are bad when American rules of engagement are liberal.


40 posted on 07/09/2011 8:21:33 AM PDT by Excuse_My_Bellicosity (Liberalism is a social disease.)
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