Read the whole story and tell me where Bush is mentioned even ONCE. This has nothing to do with the current administration and wasn't even a political move.
> RoMunn wrote: > As a general rule, I don't think we should bomb funerals, even if it means > passing up targets like this one. The military agrees with you, as the article mentions: "Intelligence officers monitoring the footage captured by the armed, unmanned aircraft tell NBC News they were prepared to fire at the group but were prevented from doing so by military rules of engagement that prohibit targeting a cemetery." The ROE (Rules of Engadgement) specify certian religous areas that are not to be struck, including cemeteries. AFAIK things like this have been around for a long, LONG time and are set by the military. GrumpyGruss writes: > BTW - isn't this what you Republican partisans whine that Clinton did? > That he held back for political reasons? Isn't the Republican > message, "Republicans: we'll kill more terrorists than the Democrats." Clinton repeatedly refused to acknowledge or answer requests from operatives to take action against Bin Laden and other high-level terrorists. There are a LOT of differences here, starting with the fact that the person that declined to alter the ROE to attack this bunch was the head of the Combined Air Operations Center as opposed to anyone in Washington. Additional differences include the fact that this was a one-time event, not the repeated calls asking for authorization. And the statement is that Republicans will keep you safer than Democrats by fighting terrorists on their ground instead of ours, tracking down those within our borders who would support or act on behalf of terrorists and working to prevent known terrorists into the country by beefing up border security. > This is nothing short of political bitches interfering in military > matters and then releasing the fact that they did as if it's something > to be proud of. I'll repeat myself - where at any point in this article does it mention any political activity, republican or democrat? It's not a political issue because the decision not to attack was made by the military. The fact that some officers don't agree with the decision by the brass is normal. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Introducing the Fusion Authority Quarterly Update. 80 pages of hard-hitting, up-to-date ColdFusion information by your peers, delivered to your door four times a year. http://www.fusionauthority.com/quarterly Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/message.cfm/messageid:215439 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5
