Time Magazine is reporting there were Marines in Cairo, only [none in Libya], but were not allowed to carry loaded weapons.

<<<  Yes,  our soldiers were ordered to carry around unloaded guns  . . . .  as a sign of good intentions or what ??!!!!

Update:  I should point out that the Administration has denied this story,  but it came from Time and was based on Marine blog(s) entries.  I have not reason to believe this Administration over the Marine bloggers (who have since been silenced.  For one thing,  this has been the policy elsewhere as noted below.  There is no reason, therefore,  to disbelieve the first reports. --  blog editor

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As an insight into  the way the Dems run military operations:  they do not allow our soldiers to carry loaded weapons,  in some cases.  For example,  our Marines were prohibited from loading their weapons in Cairo and in the Green Zone in Afghanistan.  

The Cairo reports have been denied by this Administration,  but the info comes from Marine blogs,  and,  this is the way Dems order troop conduct elsewhere.  

The 30 or more American soldiers shot to death in the Afghan Green Zone while teaching the Afghan military on various matters,  did not have loaded weapons.  That has since been changed, but the order,  itself,  demonstrates the idiocy of having a Democrat partisan in charge of military operations.  

On,  at least,  one occasion,  when Secretary of Defense, Leon Panetta, spoke to the troops in Afghanistan,  the soldiers were required to leave all their weapons at the door of the tented meeting hall.   

In the field,  our soldiers were/are not permitted to fire first,  to keep an enemy combatant in custody for more than 72 hours if an approved detention center was nowhere to be found  --  "yes," they had to release these killers.  Air support could not be called in if the battle was close to a residential area.  Instead,  our soldiers simply had to fight their way out of their circumstance without the help of air support.  On occasions,  Miranda Rights were given to combatants.  I think this policy no longer exists.  

Need I say more?    

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After notes in an update:  

1. on Panetta's visit to Afghanistan:  

"US soldiers were asked to disarm during a speech by Leon Panetta, the American defense secretary, in a sign of grown concern over spates of seemingly random violence in Afghanistan."  Story found here.  at the Telegraph.  

Kind of wonder what the heck this means  -  an accusation of possible malicious intent on the part of our own soldiers?  Geeeeesh. 

2.   "Concerned about the uptick in the attacks, U.S. Gen. John Allen, ISAF's chief commander, ordered all allied forces at NATO headquarters in Kabul and all bases across Afghanistan earlier this month to carry loaded weapons around the clock" from a story found here, CNN U.S.