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The old rules of engagement were an insult to all American service members over the centuries who have fought for this country. The new ROE are worse (see #2).

1. The rules of engagement place the burden on U.S. air and ground troops to confirm with certainty that a Taliban fighter is armed before they can fire — even if they are 100 percent sure the target is the enemy. In some cases, aerial gunships have been denied permission to fire even though they reported that targets on the move were armed.

2. “U.S. forces shall not enter Afghan homes for the purposes of military operations, except under extraordinary circumstances involving urgent risk to life and limb of U.S. nationals,” Mr. Obama pledged in a letter to the Afghan leader.

This obscenity means that armed enemy within a dwelling simply have to wait for troops to become targets, and then they can fire with impunity. Our troops are forbidden to enter that fighting position that is also a dwelling because they will be told "there is no threat to life or limb if you just leave it alone and exit the area."

These ROE are additional grounds for impeachment.

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This is the equivalent of our domestic policy "Shelter In Place" ROE being conducted in public schools. Our troops are nothing more than sheep being kept in the slaughtering pens.

This is an outright criminal and traitorous act on Obama's part.