US Troops Leaving Iraqi Cities

[Tom Odom]

Here is a link to a story in today's Washington Post.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn...062600301.html

The story states that a new rule will prohibit US troops from using MRAPs in urban areas during the day. I can't understand why such a rule would be implemented.

Could it be the primary purpose of the rule is to increase the vulnerability of US troops going into the cities in the hope that it will make them reluctant to go? It is as if JAM wrote the rule.

This is OBO (Overcome by Odierno). see:

Military: No Ban on Use of Mine-Resistant Vehicles in Iraq

By Ernesto Londoño
Washington Post Foreign Service
...Lt. Col. Brian Maka, a U.S. military spokesman in Baghdad, said in an e-mail Saturday that the information provided by the officers regarding the ban of MRAPs during daylight hours was "absolutely wrong."

He said the military would "not exclude using the appropriate force protection measures when conducting our operations."

Overall the movement from the cities is going well.

Tom