[truth_seeker]

"A U.S. military spokesperson says U.S. troops are prepared for child combatants - but stresses the best scenario if possible is to disarm them, secure them, and remember--they are victims of Saddam."

The "best scenraio if possible" may be desirable, in a perfect world. Such a scenario would presume they could be "rehabilitated" by something akin to "re-programming."

While an admirable policy statement, in practice it might not work. Two viable alternatives might be:

1. Capture them, and hold them captive (for years) while rehabilitating them. Then take the "risk" that they could be freed into society at large, without undue risk of their further violent leanings.

2. Kill them, quietly, out of sight of cameras. Avoids many risks.

[HiTech RedNeck]

2. Kill them, quietly, out of sight of cameras. Avoids many risks.

Our cameras won't see it, but what you want to bet Ba'ath has embeds too. Al Jazeera will show this later today if this is what's happening.

[theFIRMbss]

>2. Kill them, quietly, out of sight of cameras. Avoids many risks.

US soldiers forced
to kill children will come home
with mental problems.

No matter how trained
our guys are, we're civilized
people. And killing

kids, even in war,
goes against everything in
our hearts and our minds.

If this story's true,
our soldiers will need our prayers
desperately, now,

and when they come home.
Let's hope this report didn't
refer to children.