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To: unclewest who wrote (217049)	8/26/2007 9:21:54 AM
From: JDN	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793915

Thats GOT to be a tremendous negative effect on troop morale. I always found attorneys on a Board of Directors of a Company were a net negative, seems to me same is true of the Armed Forces. jdn

To: unclewest who wrote (217049)	8/26/2007 1:30:50 PM
From: KLP	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793915

Does anyone really wonder why we are having trouble with getting more long term committments to the Military? With the "rules" changing minute to minute, and men/women having to look through their rulebooks to see if they can kill an enemy or not, why would anyone want to sacrifice themselves? Maybe this is what the Human Rights Watch/Human Rights Commission really wants. The bad guys to take over the god guys. From my knothole looking in, this IMO, is the problem: But Marc Garlasco, a senior military analyst with Human Rights Watch, said soldiers can’t just label someone a combatant and shoot him. “Though it is difficult to second-guess soldiers operating in life-and-death situations, this appears on the surface to be a violation of the laws of war,” he said. “The Geneva Conventions are clear — you can only kill a combatant, and a combatant has to be armed.” New York-based Human Rights Watch is one of the chief civilian oversight groups monitoring U.S. military conduct in the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Garlasco is a former civilian intelligence officer with the Defense Intelligence Agency. He said the rules of engagement must be changed if a soldier is allowed to use force just because he feels he is in danger