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

[Dark Dragon]

Why the fuck are some of you trying to justify this?? There's no situation stressful enough that would warrant the murder of so many innocent people. You can't wave this away because "you don't know what it's like". This is murder on an institutional level and it's been covered up by the government. How complacent do you have to be to pretend this isn't wrong? Edit: That wasn't a knock at you, Dark Dragon, I'm just saying.

Anyway, here's a blog post by a guy who's "been in their shoes" and agrees these guys are nutcases: http://blog.ajmartinez.com/2010/04/0...ateral-murder/

I think i was pretty clear in my statement that these guys need to be held responsible and be punished for their action. I'm just saying that all we saw is one video that shows a blatant error in judgement and even as far as dangerous behavior. It might be in everyone best interest if these guys were discharged if they weren't already. I also think they should be court martial, despite what my earlier comment might suggest. I'm not particularly fond of government cover ups either.

At the same time, all we saw is one video. We have no idea what these guys were doing days or week before this event. There have been report of the other side going as far as using the mentally ill in wheel chair as suicide bombs. Hell, for all we know there might have been a similar situation before that led to an ambush.

No one in their right mind is going to argue with you guys that this ISN'T wrong. But at the same time we're not in a viable position with enough information to condemn these guys as monsters or something. I'm not trying to defend these soldier or their action, i'm just saying don't be so quick to judge.