by Aaron Cantor 

 Strict new rules will complicate the battlefield even further.

Some guy from a Washington think tank known as the Center for a New American Security, Andrew Exum by name, is quoted saying "We are not in Afghanistan to make sure fewer Americans die, we are in Afghanistan to make sure that fewer Afghan civilians die".

Not only do our forces have to read these rag heads Miranda Rights (they aren't even U.S. citizens), now the newest added restriction is that if you are taking fire from a house or location where there may be civilians you must disengage if you can do so without getting any of your troops hurt. These people regularly use civilians as human shields, knowing that we will hesitate to fire on civilians, however, it is a bit difficult to tell them apart, when they are all wearing a shmatteh on their head. This is just going to give them more incentive to keep using people as human shields.

I would dearly love to know what dimwit politician thought up these cockamamie rules, it has to be some dunce of a lawyer who has never been under fire. Where did you get your brain dipstick, out of a crackerjack box?

General Patton is probably turning over in his grave. We are in a damn war this is not a game! Patton had it right you throw in everthing including the kitchen sink and keep kicking them in the butt until they holler uncle, and if they don't holler you keep kicking until they do, without let up, otherwise you might not walk away, FOREVER MORE you may not walk away. I guess I just belong to a different generation (I'm older than most of the Boobs in Washington), I always thought if your going to commit to a shooting war, you are in it to win it or don't get in it.

This is almost like taking young fresh faced American kids, putting a uniform on them,tying one hand behind their back, and telling them OK now go fight the war (I hear echos of Viet Nam). I have no way of knowing of course, but unless I miss my guess, the Commanders who have received these orders, and now have to pass them on to those kids, must have one helluva sour taste in their mouth.

It is a chilling experience to look at a young man just back from a combat tour who looks twenty one until you look in his eyes, I mean really look right into his eyes and you see an old man in there who will never really be young again, not after the things he has seen.

The next time the "Anointed One" has a press conference, I wonder if any of the reporters in the White House press corps will have cajones enough to question him about these new restrictions. Since he has No military experience, he will probably stammer some kind of glib, arrogant off the wall answer (he is pretty good at tap dancing his way around an issue).

During WWll, there was a little thing in the Pacific known as the Halsey Haircut (named after Admiral Bull Halsey), in simple terms, it meant you rolled over anything and everything in front of you no holds barred, like a buzz saw flattening everything in your path, and if anything was left, the Marines took a flamethrower to it and turned it into a crispy critter. I don't consider myself a violent or a bloodthirsty man, but, my feeling is that if you Afghan civilians don't want to be used as a human shield, get the hell out of the combat zone until we can get rid of those thugs.

Our young sons and daughters in uniform are important to us, and we don't need some half a -- ed politician putting restrictions on them that will make them any more of a target than they already are.

Message to Washington: How about you BOOBS put on a uniform and fight a war for your country for a change (and at G.I. pay scale)?

WAKE UP AMERICA!!!

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