"Collateral Murder" - US Soldiers kill civilians/journalists in Iraq

[XanBcoo]

You guys are being pretty hard on our men in uniform. Consider the conditions under which they are placed, and ask yourself how you'd react in a similar situation. That is, if they put you in a badass Apache attack helicopter and green-lighted you to unload on some muthafuckas, you'd go crazy with the cheesewhiz and see how many points you could score. Each terrorist is 10 pts, each non-White is 5.

All kidding aside, a lot of soldiers are trigger happy cowboys looking to increase their kill totals. But they are also under extreme conditions, constantly under duress and with their lives at risk. In those circumstances, you can see why they'd be a little trigger happy.

No man. That doesn't excuse it.

But it's a nice little mental exercise trying to understand why someone would beg to open fire on a civilian van trying to help wounded human beings, and then actually do so. That's the definition of Psychopathy and I often wonder what it must be like.

The worst part is that this behavior is trained.