| Imagine this not-so-unimaginable scenario: A police | | | | soldier who fires a weapon before being fired upon |
| officer pulls up to a house where a domestic | | | | can face a court-martial. |
| disturbance has been reported. As the officer | | | | Depriving soldiers of their Biblical and Constitutional |
| approaches the house, a man wielding a gun bursts | | | | right of self-defence is inexcusable. (Exodus 22:2) |
| out the front door, aims his weapon at the officer, | | | | Think about this for a minute. Troops have to wait |
| and screams, "I'm going to kill you!" The officer has | | | | until their fellow soldiers are killed before they can |
| no place to take cover. What would a reasonable law | | | | defend themselves by shooting back. But wait, it |
| enforcement official do in such a situation? | | | | gets worse. If a solider does shoot at the enemy, |
| Any officer will tell you that if a man is pointing a gun | | | | they have to fill out a stack of paper work that |
| at him and yelling that he is going to shoot the | | | | would make any Washington bureaucrat proud. |
| officer, the policeman is well within his legal rights to | | | | Why would you ever give your soldiers an order not |
| shoot first in self defence. All that is required to | | | | to fire until fired upon? Wars are won by killing the |
| justify lethal force is that the officer fears for his life. | | | | other guy first, not by waiting to see what he'll do. |
| He does not have to wait for the gunman to fire | | | | You already know the enemy wants to kill you. |
| before the policeman can shoot at the attacker. | | | | That's why you get into wars to begin with. |
| But imagine how different--and tragic--the outcome | | | | I doubt any father or mother would encourage a son |
| of this scenario could be if the Attorney General of | | | | or daughter to join the military knowing what I have |
| the United States, the highest ranking law | | | | just reported, and I dare say this deadly policy was |
| enforcement official in the country, had declared a | | | | not presented to recruits before they joined the |
| new policy that no sheriff, deputy, police officer, FBI | | | | military. Since the government has changed the |
| agent, U.S. Marshall, or Secret Service agent could fire | | | | assumptions upon which someone signs up to fight, |
| their gun at someone unless the assailant fired first. | | | | then you should give the soldiers the option to stay |
| Any law enforcement official that shot before being | | | | and fight or to catch the first flight home, now that |
| shot at would be prosecuted. Under this policy law | | | | they know what the new rules are. |
| enforcement officials would be wholly justified in | | | | And what do the rules signal to the enemy? The |
| resigning immediately and getting another job. | | | | foes you face are shrewd, vicious people who know |
| Criminals would have a heyday if they knew they | | | | these "rules of engagement" and will use them to |
| had one free shot before being in danger themselves. | | | | their advantage--and to the destruction of men in |
| Obviously absurd, right? | | | | uniform. Can you win this war with such an |
| Unless you happen to be politicians overseeing the | | | | irresponsible, politically correct policy? Did you win in |
| war in Iraq. | | | | Vietnam with politician's micromanaging the war? |
| That's right! I have received e-mails from the family | | | | These sickening rules of engagement must be |
| members of military personal fighting in Iraq telling me | | | | changed now, or the soldiers need to come home |
| that the military has politically coerced, non-sensical | | | | before any more die from the national leaders' love |
| "rules of engagement." It has been reported that the | | | | of politically correct fighting. |
| men and women fighting in Iraq do not have the | | | | Military family members have told me that soldiers |
| right to shoot at the enemy until the enemy shoots | | | | are afraid to speak out about these foolish and |
| at them first. I recently heard a well-documented | | | | deadly "rules of engagement" because they fear |
| report in which an enemy terrorist was observed | | | | retaliation that will damage their military careers. |
| pointing a rocket launcher at American troops, clearly | | | | Please contact your members of Congress and the |
| preparing to fire at the watching soldiers. Yet U. S. | | | | White House and ask them to change these deadly |
| servicemen were not able to take him out before he | | | | and politically correct "rules of engagement". |
| fired. Only after the enemy fired his rocket, killing | | | | Adding 20,000, 30,000 or 100,000 new troops will not |
| several U. S. soldiers, were the remaining troops | | | | change the outcome of this war unless the politicians |
| allowed to destroy the enemy. The Americans | | | | stop managing the war like a bunch of politically |
| involved in the incident were all too aware that any | | | | correct, liberals. |