The American Investigative Army

Is it just me or does it seem like we're doing an awful lot of investigating with this war. We're investigating God only knows how many friendly fire incidents, missiles in Turkey, Iran and Syria, missiles in Baghdad markets, missiles that miss missiles, missiles that make it through our missiles to complete missile attacks, missiles that miss, missiles that hit, mines, chemicals, antidotes, suits, schools, hospitals, factories, atrocities, POWs, accidents and much, much more. It seems like we're going to be spending more time investigating the fighting than actually fighting.

Now don't get me wrong, an investigation to see what went wrong is never a bad thing. One of strengths is being able to look at what didn't work and figuring out how to make it work. We're successful because we learn from our mistakes.

But come on. At the rate we're starting investigations, being an investigator for the military is going to be the most secure job in history! We're going to have more lawyers in theater than soldiers (that'll make Saddam give up for sure. Imagine 250,000 lawyers coming 'round your block to investigate. You'd commit suicide too). We have got to get a grip here, folks.

Friendly fire needs to be our top investigative priority. We need to make sure that we do everything we can to minimize the casualties to our troops. The rest of the stuff, it's just not as important. We have got to figure out how to protect our troops from ourselves. We've done more damage to the coalition military than Iraq has. That has got to stop.