re: Big invasion in Iraq has begun.

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Our Rules of Engagement are suicidal and anti-victory - they imply a rational way to chain the dogs of war that doesn't exist in the real world.

Once you tell soldiers that they cannot kill civilians or damage property (even inadvertantly), you've already lost the war - particularly to an enemy more than willing to kill civilians and use houses of worship as sanctuaries.

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I remember when my uncle, who was a Marine fighter pilot & flew 2 tours in Vietnam, spoke of this in reference to that clusterfrick, he was highly frustrated, not surprisingly. He didn't talk about Vietnam much, but when he did, this was his major point of contention.