They could order it. I doubt very much that anything would happen.
Literacy: definition: age 15 and over can read and write
total population: 40.4%
male: 55.9%
female: 24.4% (2003 est.)
It’s clearly one of those Leave-No-Live-Iraqi-Behind education programs. No doubt once literacy rate has been pushed up by the thinning of the illiterate herd liberals will still be whining and bitching.
There really is no pleasing some people.
The wisdom of a policy is not determined by its age.
Enjoy,
Steven
Never said otherwise. Still some posters are saying things that indicate they think this is new. It is not.
(I swear I have some photos of the darn sign around here. I simply cannot find them.)
The policy of randomly blasting the natives just in case they might be hostile has been in place for a while but actually specifying 100 yards is new to me.
Fair enough. Trust me, it is a policy that has been in place for well over a year. I say that with no cite whatsoever. Trust me.
Yes, it’s old news asthis post shows. The link no longer works but the relevant part of the newspaper story is quoted in the post.
Nothing about a 100 yard freefire zone there isn’t. But new or not it is contemptible in practice as your cite shows. No wonder attacks on coalition troops has so much Iraqi support.
No, we were never the good guys.
Wishing success on people trying to kill U.S. troops is more than a bit inflammatory.
I’d suggest not repeating this sentiment, particularly in GD.
I know some world war II vets (and their admirers, one of whom is me) who’d take issue with that statement.
No one said we were the good guys at any point in this decade, or last decade, but there was definitely a point where we were the good guys, and a stretch afterwards where we were doing some questionable things but were still the best thing going.
Okay, end hijack
Found that photo …
The placard is black on white, with red reflectors, Arabic on top, English on bottom.
Surely that just says “Danger Stay Back”? Rather than a probably better “Danger Stay Back Or We Shoot” or something. It might say that in the Arabic part though, can anyone read that?
Also, the name of the photo file is concerning… :dubious:
If you can read this… :rolleyes:
[sardonic] You know, John Kerry said that once, long ago when he was young & stupid. Good thing those patriots at Diebold stopped that unpatriotic freethinker from stealing this country away from right-thinking Americans. Pennzoil is better than ketchup, & God hates those who refuse to kill a foreigner for the sake of America. Ten Thousand Years, O Kali. [/sardonic]
No, of course, you’re right. But DoD doesn’t actually follow the Geneva Conventions when they’re scared. They surrender to the Panic. Nietzsche fans, maybe.
Tom, it seems clear to me that Rashak wasn’t wishing success on killers of Americans, he was using sarcasm to point out the implications of the rules. The insurgents now have a further incentive to stock up on those weapons. It will be a sad day for the Dope when sarcasm is banned: the terrorists will have already won. (Oh wait, that’s hyperbole.)