Originally Posted by
manfrommaine
that is not true. there were many reported instances of troops breaking into homes with no arabic speaker in the unit.
And the POINT is: that effort would have been much more effectively handled by some of the 150K trained Iraqi troops...don't you agree?
"many reports" from where? The AP? rueters? ABC? al jezera? stringers?
when you have intell you act on it. If there's no interpreter available that's too bad. Women and children will be treated the same whether there is an interpreter there or not.
Your just trying to demonize the troops through the back door.
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