US Military Opens Fire On Innocent Journalists http://www.boingboing.net/2010/04/05/wikileaks-video-of-u.html#more
Unfortunately, It is not the first time and it is not going to be the last time. There are going to be more Americans wars. They always follow the money. Of course, they are going to disguised it with some high moral principles. I guess most governments are the same. The USA is not better.
The guy wasnt going out of his way to shoot innocents. This happens all the time in warzones. The US Military is one of the best at limiting civilian casualties but that does not mean its ANYWHERE near perfect. The war in Iraq is another debate. Iraq war was really never something I personally wanted for sure. This should not be taken out of context to that point.
It was a terrible mistake, the soldiers though he was carrying an rpg when it was actually just a shoulder-mounted camera. Im not saying it's ok, just that mistakes happen when you're at war.
True. The only time they'll open fire on someone who isn't in enemy uniform is when they're in US Military uniform.
People who have descrestionary power of authority also have addrenaline, we as society are suppose to appoint the men and women whom can control that chemically (so to speak) induced feeling. Sometimes cops take too far....they don't "turn it off" fast enough and you see them on trial, & they usually get off on account that "the average person has no idea if the stresses being a provayer (spelled wrong) of safety has to go through, Or if the man to his right is really mentally stable to protect his life as well on the battlefield" I do understand that mistakes happen but usually with a little control they can be avoided, possibly prevented.
& it might disgust you to see Americans not being a little more cautious but was it a blatant as Idk.....let's see....uhhh flying a couple of passenger 747's into two of our most recognizable and populated buildings in our country? Killing is sensless when it's sensless -that's free advice.
That's ****ed up. So it's ok to be terrorists as long as other terrorists did it first? If we can't control the overwhelming urge to kill innocent civilians, we shouldn't be in war. In fact, we shouldn't be in war anyways.
Who knows...perhaps it's this kind of stuff that prints attacks like 9/11, that coupled with are lack of security (mainly so week can make another million at are next meeting) is why we were "open". But I find it hard to belive you can just fire on people with no recorse. There was a reason those men were fired upon, & I'm sure the journalist new the risks of reporting in such a volitile area. Iraqi's and American get hurt by road side bombs all the time and the ones that plant those weapons don't care who they hurt.
Of course not, they didn't even do it first I think this was just before 9/11 (maybe) the point is be a realist not a terrorist. Don't be all "oh my god" I also said clearly that killing is sensless when it's sensless. Also my point was about appointing people that have no business in those positions. Those soldiers where given permission and ordered to kill, I'm sure it wasn't just sick pleasure, because if so they will be punished.
They said it was in 2007 on the video. Whoever the hell gave them permission to fire on civilians, and the idiot that listened, should be punished.
Well you can't just jump in an apache and say your gonna go grab some smokes at the gas station, Every flight is logged and checked in numerouse ways. Not to mention your only hearing one side. So who knows who is wrong in this situation. By the time we hear most news the covers have been laid. I'd love to hear your opinons change If there was breaking news that the journalist's were participating in the slaughtering of there fellow citicenze by video taping the snuff films they make. And if your a marine that does not follow orders your not a marine. & if your not a marine in a helicoter tank or on a battlefield full of marines then you can't be trusted amung other men who protect our freedom. That's a marine mentallity amung many who become a soldier of America. Many Internet gaming starbucks drinking vitimen water drinking soccer mom van driving "did I leave the coffe pot on?" asking themselves while driving a car down a residential neiborhood people will never understand the kind of mind it takes to defend a NATION the only fact: death is certain life is not.
Obviously that flight wasn't checked very well and I can't wait to hear the journalists were actually mass murderers.
my edit: if your a marine that does not follow orders your not a marine. & if your not a marine in a helicoter tank or on a battlefield full of marines then you can't be trusted amung other men who protect our freedom. That's a marine mentallity amung many who become a soldier of America. Many Internet gaming starbucks drinking vitimen water drinking soccer mom van driving "did I leave the coffe pot on?" asking themselves while driving a car down a residential neiborhood people will never understand the kind of mind it takes to defend a NATION
I'm not saying that you will hear that but it's possible that they might have filmed and American soldier dying for disgusting purposes. My point is you have seemed to shape your opinion around what you have seen and read. Clearly neither of us were there so to me any possible variable I will take into consideration....considering the natures of warfare and the press that reports it consistancy of inaccuarcy or "this just in the latest, what we told you actually has more truth to that"
