What has happened to the US Army in Iraq? B. Cloughley

[teryang]

This article is a professional review of the urban ROE for the US Army in Iraq, how it isn't followed at all, and the diastrous consequences. Definitely worth a look:

http://www.counterpunch.org/cloughley08162003.html

<Recently there have been several reports of incidents in Iraq involving the killing of civilians by the US Army. ("July 30--Two Iraqi civilians on foot shot dead by US soldiers in the Mansour district of Baghdad, Iraq. No weapons or explosives were found. August 8--US forces fire on a car carrying an Iraqi family at a checkpoint north of Baghdad. Five Iraqis, including three children, were killed, and two others wounded. August 11--US soldiers kill six Iraqi civilians at three different checkpoints in Baghdad, Iraq. No weapons or explosives were found." And so on.) ><snip>

<What we see in Chapter III of General Abizaid's Manual is, coincidentally and with horrific irony, an exact prediction of what is happening in Iraq concerning war crimes. Every single one of the criteria listed in the Doctrine is met with amazing exactitude. The situation in Iraq is frightening, and every time another brutal arrest is made, ..every time a civilian is killed in a spray of unaimed bullets, there is deeper hatred of the invader.>