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Originally posted by Warden
I can't comment on the ROE, Rules of Engagement, since I don't knwo exactly what they are(and unless you were apart of the Op Order, you don't either)but I can tell you that its been military doctrine for years to put civilians and non-combatants lives higher priority than your own as a soldier.
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did you read the thread ...
The Fourth Geneva Convention plainly states, "Civilian hospitals organized to give care to the wounded and sick, the infirm and maternity cases, may in no circumstances be the object of attack, but shall at all times be respected and protected by the Parties to the conflict."
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FALLUJAH, 10 Nov 2004 (IRIN) - Twenty doctors along with dozen of Iraqis were killed by a US air strike on a government clinic on Tuesday in the centre of Fallujah, 60 km west of Baghdad according to Dr Sami al-Jumaili, who survived the strike.
"In the early morning the US attacked the clinic, a place that we were using for treating the injured people in the city. A girl and ten-year-old boy, I really don't know if they want to tackle the insurgents or the innocent civilians from the city," al-Jumaili told IRIN.
According to the health worker, the building was one of three community clinics that had been receiving civilians wounded since the assault on the city by US and Iraqi troops to destroy insurgents began on Monday. He said that the clinic was already running out from medicines and the only ambulance that was left in the city had also been hit by US fire.
http://www.irinnews.org/report.asp?ReportID=44075
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Pretty far from the flowers and cheers expected by your brilliant commander in chief...
As usual, US diplomacy is comparable to an elephant in a crystal shop...
Whatever good could have come out of this invasion is gone.