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Wednesday, September 13, 2006

Dishonoring Our Fallen Soldiers, Endangering Our Brave Warriors

NBC News: Taliban in our sights -- an updatePerhaps Donald Rumsfeld can explain to the families of Spc. Mark Anthony Zapata and 2nd Lt. James Michael Goins why the Pentagon's rules of engagement bar Hellfire missiles being fired from a US Army Predator drone on 190 Taliban members in an Afghanistan cemetery but allow US soldiers to fight pitched battles against terrorists in a cemetery in Iraq.

Zapata and Goins were killed in August, 2004 when a member of Muqtada Sadr's Al Mahdi Army climbed onto the back of their Abrams tank and shot them at point-blank range with an AK-47 through the open hatch.

More from Allah at Hot Air (who has a sobering remark from Michael Yon) and Bob Owens at Confederate Yankee (who has more on the Najaf cemetery battle).

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