Todd,
I'm not going to use this exact incident, but a hypothetical one.....

If a few bad guys attack a small U.S. force, kill and wound a few, then run into a house and kill a civilian or two and take the rest of the occupants hostage, and continue to kill our boys either by direct rifle fire, explosives, or via radio/cell phone, then our boys need to neutralize that threat immediatly, and the remaining civilian deaths go in the "killed by insurgents/terrorists" colum...colateral damage. When you start seeing our boys using Iraqi civilians for a shield, then you can compare their behavior to that of the barbarians.....
If you expect our boys to survive in an absolutely hostile enviroment then they are going to have to have some latitude, if you have our boys behaving in a manner that will guarantee zero civilians deaths, then you have handed the trump card to the barbarians, because it would not take a genious to take those rules of engagement and shove them down the throats of some fine young Americans trying to do the impossible for the unknowing...........

BTW, I've said it before, I DO value every human life, but I have enough sense to know the difference between reality and fantasy, the reality of war is that the whole damn thing is horrible and should be avoidable, but I'll not hold our boys personaly responsible for the position we as a people put them in, I am sorry they have to be there, and I hope they do their job well and get their a$$e$ home in one piece. The idea of our Country picking a few guys out to punish for the media's glory for possibly acting one tenth of a second to quick when three tenths of a second would probably be to late is too much B. S. for me. With todays standards what do you think WWII would be like, you prefer Japanese or German, it's not like they are dropping 1000's of incendary bombs, or atomic bombs on civilians you know....................