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To: bela_ghoulashi who wrote (98888)	5/23/2003 9:56:29 AM
From: thames_sider	Read Replies (2) of 281500

The men on the ground knew nothing of this. They cannot be faulted personally, as individuals, as men in combat, for not having the benefit of hindsight beforehand. Agreed. Probably they were following SOP for hostile and possibly occupied territory. But they should have known it was no such thing. Remember, there was that orderly or ward assistant who tipped us off? Did he give wrong information, and imply there were Iraqi troops everywhere? Did no one at all ask him "Are there any soldiers"? Sending in a SWAT team, guns blazing and gung-ho, is all fine and dramatic and I agree it made a great story. But if this was actually a cooked-up drama when they could have just sent an ambulance to fetch her - and some people at least DID OR SHOULD have known this - then it's significant, no? Or do you think it's OK to lie to your troops and send them in with obviously inadequate if not blatantly false information, on a wasted, damaging and unnecessary mission? ... Do you think it's OK to treat our soldiers as toys for good headlines?

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