Originally Posted By CrouchingTigger >>Have you tried hitting a moving object going in excess of 80 mph? Basic marksmanship only covers stationary targets as the military does not provide us moving targets..... << Sorry, WilliamK99, I didn't mean it that way. I was being somewhat flippant as a way of supporting their decision to fire. Or at least giving them the benefit of doubt until there's proof that it was anything other than the soldiers putting up a proper defense. As you said, they had very little time to decide how to react and did what they thought they had to.
Originally Posted By WilliamK99 Sorry, WilliamK99, I didn't mean it that way.<< No problem. IMO stress also contributes to lack of accuracy, its one thing to be at a non threatening range and shoot 40 targets, quite another to face a life threatening situation and have the same accuracy.
Originally Posted By mele It's always sad when people die but how hard is it to stop at a check point? Doesn't everyone in Iraq know how check points work by now? I'd probably shoot someone who came flying at me in a speeding car, especially if I was in Iraq.
Originally Posted By WilliamK99 sometimes I think they try crap like this on purpose just to make the military look bad.
Originally Posted By gadzuux You mean like taking a pregnant woman in labor on her way to the hospital and rushing her right at them to see if they'll shoot? A "test"?
Originally Posted By WilliamK99 why not? The terrorists have used children and women in their fight against the "infidels" in the past, why wouldnt they step it up and use pregnant women....
Originally Posted By gadzuux (sigh) ... And the brother who's driving the car? He's the most likely target for this little experiment, and it's only by fluke that he wasn't killed or injured. Also there's no good way for the military to know that there's a pregnant woman inside the car that's speeding toward them. So no, I don't think that this was just some ploy to make the military look bad.
Originally Posted By trekkeruss <<there's no good way for the military to know that there's a pregnant woman inside the car that's speeding toward them.>> Just one more reason why the vehicle was fired upon. The soldiers have no way of distinguishing between a car on a suicide mission and a car on a medical emergency. Prayers for the deceased and her family, regardless. Tragedy is tragedy, no matter what side you're on.
