U.S. convoys struggle to adjust to policy change ("assume all civilian vehicles are friendly")

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Source: McClatchy Newspapers

U.S. convoys struggle to adjust to policy change
By Jamie Gumbrecht

CAMP TAJI, Iraq — In the first month that they were in Iraq, someone threatened, shot at or tried to blow up the soldiers of the Kentucky National Guard's B Battery, 2nd Battalion, 138th Field Artillery 12 times. Last month, there were only three such incidents.

But confirmation that the roads have become safer came a few weeks ago when a flier went up in the 2-138's office at this base 20 miles north of Baghdad.

"Effective immediately," it read, "assume all civilian vehicles are friendly."

The order admonished soldiers throughout Iraq to yield to civilian drivers, allow vehicles to pass and avoid firing their weapons as they escorted convoys of concrete barriers, generators, water and food to U.S. military outposts.

Read more: http://www.mcclatchydc.com/iraq/story/23480.html

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1. Don't blast everything that moves?

What kind of pussy way is that to fight a war?