Future U.S. Air Strikes Questionable

[leftchick]

http://www.military.com/NewsContent/0,13319,93059,00.html

BALAD AIR BASE, Iraq - Balad's two runways, among the world's busiest, launch 27,500 aircraft a month, hundreds of them bomb-laden jets flying close air support for U.S. troops moving against insurgents.

But as the U.S. Army "stands down" and the Iraqi army "stands up," will American combat pilots likewise fly into battle behind Iraqi ground units?

"That's a good question," says the Air Force's tactical commander in Iraq.

That good question may grow pressing as the year wears on, if Iraqi officers begin asking for U.S. air strikes on questionable targets in Iraq's shadowy, many-sided conflict.

One U.S. counterinsurgency expert foresees a much-changed situation.

"I seriously doubt that we would ever bomb any targets just on the Iraqis' say-so," said James Corum, an instructor at the Army's Command and General Staff College at Fort Leavenworth, Kan.

[LynnTheDem]

1. "doubt we would ever bomb any targets just on the Iraqis' say-so"

good fucking grief.

It's IRAQ.

Supposedly "sovereign".

On WHOSE say-so would you bomb IRAQIS and IRAQI targets???

Fucking unbelievable.

[mom cat]

5. Like who have they been listening to all along regarding targets of air

striles? Some pencil pushers in the Green Zone? Of course they have been relying on Iraqi "intelligence sources".

[shoelace414]

2. Just the other Day the Milwaukee Police Department ordered an Air Strike

So Iraq is just like the USA

:sarcasm:

[underpants]

3. Hate to nitpick but isn't this tactical information?

Just asking

[Javaman]

4. saving their bombs for Iran...nt