04-22-2010, 02:15 AM
I saw no reason for it myself. Of course I am not a soldier and know little about the situation they were in. What I saw were civilians with cameras getting murdered. Then I saw some other civilians and two children get shot and by a very gung-ho and in a hurry to do so gunman in a high tech chopper. I saw no RPG or anything that came close to looking like one. They....at the time, being trained to spot people carring weapons with the view they had ( not a recording ) live I am sure had to know these people had cameras and not weapons.
In my opinion this was murder.
The video that GCJM linked to....this ex-soldier say's this type of and worse happens all the time and is why he left. Then go's on to, in reality, try to justify it by blameing the training and the way people are raised and schooled and what many believe to be acting out of patriotism. That is certainly true in my honest opinion but it is also true that in order for these soldiers to be sain they had to know they were murdering innocent unarmed civilians. The whole system needs to be overhauled IMO but the people in this, responsible for this, need to be tried for war crimes and made an example out of, every last stinking one of them.
In my opinion this was murder.
The video that GCJM linked to....this ex-soldier say's this type of and worse happens all the time and is why he left. Then go's on to, in reality, try to justify it by blameing the training and the way people are raised and schooled and what many believe to be acting out of patriotism. That is certainly true in my honest opinion but it is also true that in order for these soldiers to be sain they had to know they were murdering innocent unarmed civilians. The whole system needs to be overhauled IMO but the people in this, responsible for this, need to be tried for war crimes and made an example out of, every last stinking one of them.