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AUSTRALIAN and British military legal advisers frequently had to "red card" more trigger-happy US forces to limit civilian casualties during the invasion of Iraq in 2003, according to one of the Australian advisers.
Colonel Mike Kelly, writing in the Australian Army Journal, says the junior partners in the coalition forces succeeded in reducing civilian casualties and reinforcing the legitimacy of the invasion to topple Saddam Hussein.
In the most detailed insight yet into the secret rules Australian forces operated under during the conflict in 2003, Colonel Kelly, who went on to become a senior adviser to the Coalition Provisional Authority in Iraq, said for Australian forces to open fire the enemy was "required to visibly carry weapons while deploying for an attack".
Defence sources said that under more relaxed US rules there only had to be a "reasonable suspicion" that the person was an enemy combatant and a threat.
Australian F/A-18s rarely ventured into built-up areas during the conflict to make strikes, and on occasion pulled out of bombing raids at the last minute when it was realised civilians were in the target area.
Uplate: John, if your yank mates don't learn a bit of decorum they can bloody well pack up their toys and go home. I'm not sure we need the "World's Dummest Grunts" on our side . . .
7.8.05
Pre-emptive Bodyline
The last, great umpire, fading light, piss bucketing down. Can our Flatulent Flanneleers possibly give all this local colour away for a zero-tolerant video robot. It is after all a Social sport, wot. Insist on real people taking responsibility for their own googlies. Like when the bastards get around to murdering Fidel.
6.8.05
Pacifism for Profit
The trolls reckon that pacifism is trafficking with the enemy.
As war is slaughtering the enemy I feels inclined to go with the proven capitalist notion that trafficking doesn't actually bugger your market. China knows this and has headed the People's Plumbing off toward the Gulf. While the Cheney Administration stakes America's future on Middle Eastern Oil the little yellow buggers have an equally huge future tied up in that not happening. Even the Comrades have gone a tad lasses-fairy on everything else, but not Big Oil.
I cannot see our beloved cousins leaving this bone to chance. Unless all those underground tests were about cheap fusion reactors being braught online in the next twenty years, then it's lights out for all but them on the hill - and won't they (us?) make shiny targets!
A little more of the Sir William of Occam's Depilator will ingeminate the fact that the "insurgency" and "civil war" rhetoric is a smoke screen for the main game - and as such, is what Sir Jo used to feed the chooks whilst getting on with his own hillbilly empire.
Iraq, without Sadam, would be the same shitty mess nomatter who kicked his ass - tribal rivalry throughout the region was put on hold by some arbitary lines pencilled on a map after the 1914-18 market realignment. The lines are no longer arbitary, the new maps show thick pipelines and the non-democratic organisations that will collect their taxes from it and protect it so long as the return is reasonable. The smell of anarchy is everywhere . . . would somebody on the left please note that the "workers' party" wasn't built to represent intellectuals, the time for polite discussion ended with Regan and Thatcher.
As war is slaughtering the enemy I feels inclined to go with the proven capitalist notion that trafficking doesn't actually bugger your market. China knows this and has headed the People's Plumbing off toward the Gulf. While the Cheney Administration stakes America's future on Middle Eastern Oil the little yellow buggers have an equally huge future tied up in that not happening. Even the Comrades have gone a tad lasses-fairy on everything else, but not Big Oil.
I cannot see our beloved cousins leaving this bone to chance. Unless all those underground tests were about cheap fusion reactors being braught online in the next twenty years, then it's lights out for all but them on the hill - and won't they (us?) make shiny targets!
A little more of the Sir William of Occam's Depilator will ingeminate the fact that the "insurgency" and "civil war" rhetoric is a smoke screen for the main game - and as such, is what Sir Jo used to feed the chooks whilst getting on with his own hillbilly empire.
Iraq, without Sadam, would be the same shitty mess nomatter who kicked his ass - tribal rivalry throughout the region was put on hold by some arbitary lines pencilled on a map after the 1914-18 market realignment. The lines are no longer arbitary, the new maps show thick pipelines and the non-democratic organisations that will collect their taxes from it and protect it so long as the return is reasonable. The smell of anarchy is everywhere . . . would somebody on the left please note that the "workers' party" wasn't built to represent intellectuals, the time for polite discussion ended with Regan and Thatcher.
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