Video-US Apache helicopter killing civilians and journalists

[chunky]

Re: Video-US Apache helicopter killing civilians and journalists

Where is the need to kill the wounded and those who arrive to help?

I recon the solders in the helicopter must of ID-ed the van as a van that earlier in the day had been shooting at them and came to the conclusion that the occupants must be tooling up for a fire fight when they witnessed them dragging injured people into the back of the van. That's the way it looked and sounded to me after listening to the dialogue of the solders and watching the video.

See this so called rational thinking everyone round here is keen on isn't so hard.

[dig72]

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See this so called rational thinking everyone round here is keen on isn't so hard.

I must try harder. lol

[chunky]

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I must try harder. lol

I didn't try at all. I was being sarcastic

[dig72]

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Got you the first time, just playin along.

[DIDI]

Re: Video-US Apache helicopter killing civilians and journalists

I recon the solders in the helicopter must of ID-ed the van as a van that earlier in the day had been shooting at them and came to the conclusion that the occupants must be tooling up for a fire fight when they witnessed them dragging injured people into the back of the van. That's the way it looked and sounded to me after listening to the dialogue of the solders and watching the video.

See this so called rational thinking everyone round here is keen on isn't so hard.

Did you just give a hypothetical situation to back up your supposition ??

I finally got time to watch this in one go today and it sickens me beyond belief .

[runningman]

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Wikileaks is going to post another video this time in Afghanistan.

Something is up with this. Who is releasing these videos and why? Why now? I mean these things don't just pop out of the military. They are coming out for a reason.

[res0nat0r]

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a lot of the solders fighting are just as unhappy of what is going on and why the us is involved over there as most of the rest of the world, thus releasing vids like this will help erode support for the war.

[floridaorange]

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personally I don't need to watch this to know what's going on over there. I have a best friend that came back with mental issues.

[lilsensa]

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^^Exactly. Not that I condone the killing of innocent civilians, but one must understand the mindset of U.S. Soldiers and/or Marines.. They are fighting to survive. The mindset is just that.

This is something that us "civilians" will never understand unless we were ever in their position.

These soldiers have a job to do, and they do it pretty damn well...

[DIDI]

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^^^ You don't have to defend them, the fact that they can do the things in this video speaks to how damaged they are. The war is a crime against them as well !

a lot of the solders fighting are just as unhappy of what is going on and why the us is involved over there as most of the rest of the world, thus releasing vids like this will help erode support for the war.

I'm sort of proud the Wikileaks guy is an Aussie. !

[runningman]

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I always hated that word "civilians." It makes you sound weak and helpless. We are "citizens."

Civilians is just an army propaganda word.

[res0nat0r]

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A civilian under international humanitarian law is a person who is not a member of his or her country's armed forces. The term is also often used colloquially to refer to people who are not members of a particular profession or occupation, especially by law enforcement agencies, which often use rank structures similar to those of military units.

[floridaorange]

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Civilians is just an army propaganda word.

interesting

[chunky]

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^^Exactly. Not that I condone the killing of innocent civilians, but one must understand the mindset of U.S. Soldiers and/or Marines.. They are fighting to survive. The mindset is just that.
This is something that us "civilians" will never understand unless we were ever in their position.
These soldiers have a job to do, and they do it pretty damn well...

These solders are not fighting to survive, they do a tough job so its OK to execute some people Its is just a cop out, would you apply the same principal to the mindset of pedophile who had been abused as a kid. I bet people on the ground will be struggling to survive a lot more than any the solders. So they where apparently fired upon earlier in the day. So after a hard day of been fired upon you would think they would be happy that things on the ground had quieted down. Instead they decided to shoot some people in the back. This is not good work and this is not the only case. If this was one marine on the ground on his own he wouldn’t have dared open fire on a crowd of people without provocation.

[floridaorange]

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I guess the fact that "war isn't always fair" could be inserted here.