Reply #36: Rules of Engagement

[sanskritwarrior]

if you feel threatened you are free to act to save your life and the lives of your men. In this case if the Sgt. can prove he was threatened he committed no crime. I would do the same if I felt threatened. Better to live with the images of dead Iraqis than be dead because you hesitated or have to face the family of one of your men because they died when you hesitated. I would hope that every American military person would choose a dead Iraqi before a dead American.... I know this Old Sergeant would...........