Politcal Correctness & Rules of Engagement

The US Military today has to operate under what are known as "Rules of Engagement". These are rules set up by the Government that have to be followed in battlefield situations. For instance, you can't fire unless fired upon. Excuse me, this is war. It's perfectly alright for the animals (Islamic jihadists) we are fighting, to behead people like Daniel Pearl and Nick Berg (who was videotaped being beheaded and the tape [with sound]was later shown on the internet), and to mutilate, burn, and drag the bodies of Blackwater Security forces through the streets of Fallujah and then hang them from a bridge, but if we capture a high profile terrorist like the following story describes, and we bloody his lip, we get three American soldiers facing a court-martial. That is outrageous. Personally, I think an M-16 round behind the ear, so they can go get their 72 virgins, is much more appropriate. So sorry, but he was killed in a fire fight. Who the hell is running our Military? The ghosts of Vietnam are returning. We had that war won until Walter Cronkite said it was lost, after the Tet offensive.


Navy SEALs Face Assault Charges for Capturing Most-Wanted Terrorist
(Rowan Scarborough/Fox News) - Navy SEALs have secretly captured one of the most wanted terrorists in Iraq — the alleged mastermind of the murder and mutilation of four Blackwater USA security guards in Fallujah in 2004. And three of the SEALs who captured him are now facing criminal charges, sources told FoxNews.com.
The three, all members of the Navy's elite commando unit, have refused non-judicial punishment — called an admiral's mast — and have requested a trial by court-martial.
Ahmed Hashim Abed, whom the military code-named "Objective Amber," told investigators he was punched by his captors — and he had the bloody lip to prove it.
Now, instead of being lauded for bringing to justice a high-value target, three of the SEAL commandos, all enlisted, face assault charges and have retained lawyers.
Matthew McCabe, a Special Operations Petty Officer Second Class (SO-2), is facing three charges: dereliction of performance of duty for willfully failing to safeguard a detainee, making a false official statement, and assault.
Petty Officer Jonathan Keefe, SO-2, is facing charges of dereliction of performance of duty and making a false official statement.
Petty Officer Julio Huertas, SO-1, faces those same charges and an additional charge of impediment of an investigation.
Neal Puckett, an attorney representing McCabe, told Fox News the SEALs are being charged for allegedly giving the detainee a “punch in the gut.”
“I don’t know how they’re going to bring this detainee to the United States and give us our constitutional right to confrontation in the courtroom,” Puckett said. “But again, we have terrorists getting their constitutional rights in New York City, but I suspect that they’re going to deny these SEALs their right to confrontation in a military courtroom in Virginia.”
The three SEALs will be arraigned separately on Dec. 7. Another three SEALs — two officers and an enlisted sailor — have been identified by investigators as witnesses but have not been charged.