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Quote by: giuliano  for every US soldier killed by friendly fire, and there appears to be quite a no. of them, there's probably at least 10 native civilians. |
But you really don't know that actual numbers, do you? So while you'd like to believe that we killed zillions of innocent civilians, you really don't know if we do.
Certainly GI's being killed by "friendly fire" isn't all that uncommon. The chaos of battle grounds breeds such eventualities. There's also the fact that many of the enemy dress as children and women, and others use women and children as shields. This tactic is very commonplace over there.
So what are you going to order your troops to do? Not shoot if the enemy looks like a women or a child and then take the chance of being killed yourself? Most assuredly it's a hard decision of our GI's to make. I heard a few days ago, from a soldier stationed in Iraq that his fellow GI's where very concerned that they'd be tried for killing the wrong person. Does this cause them to hesitate when they shouldn't? I think so, and I also think that this hampers our mission in Iraq.....and aids the enemy.