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To: Mary Cluney who wrote (106483)	3/29/2005 11:51:26 PM
From: unclewest	Read Replies (1) of 793745

Anybody can fight dirty and try to survive. Our military is different. That seems to beg the question, what is fighting dirty? The mission of our Armed Forces, as stated in the oath all servicemen take, is to "Protect and defend the Constitution of the United States." It doesn't say not to fight dirty...Nor does it command us to fight clean. The mission of The American Fighting Man is to, "Close with, kill, and destroy the enemy." There is no admonition to avoid fighting dirty. Likewise there is no direct command to capture the enemy alive. We have our rules of engagement. We set them and sometimes we adhere to them. Usually (but not always) we even follow the international rules of warfare as established in 1864 and the Geneva Conventions for war as written in 1949. The latter established the rules for the treatment of the "victims" of war -- wounded or sick soldiers, prisoners of war, and civilians. It is not written anywhere in either document that fighting dirty is not allowed. Remember the mission is written too. It is a command directive to defend the Constitution and to kill the enemy. When mission accomplishment is at stake on a battlefield, the importance of rules diminishes quickly.

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