Originally posted by pcosmar:
Originally posted by Flight-ER-Doc:
[b] Oh, BULL Fucking Shit!
Now it has been along time since my military training (infantry) But as I remember shooting at the wounded or at aid workers was considered wrong.
Perhaps things have changed. Perhaps honor is no longer a part of training. It has been a long time.
Now to your point of "bringing children to a battle". They didn't.
The battle was brought to their neighborhood, to their home. They were passing by and stopped to render aid.
And again, targeting unarmed aid workers is,,,,,highly questionable.
To me I see little difference between this and the incident at Waco. Just a different neighborhood. [/b]The 'battle' had been going on in that neighborhood for at least 30 minutes (we have that much video footage)....it actually had been going on for more than a couple of hours (all day). I'd leave my kids in the basement if my home was in a firefight like that.
The van was called to the area. Vans like that are not emergency aid vehicles filled with emergency first response medical workers, they're just vans...that are often used to move weapons, fighters, and VBIED's.
And if the alleged writer of the letter was so damned sorry, why did he not 'confess' his crime at the time? Complacency and silence in the face of a crime is a crime as well. I'd give him some credit if he had actually been a man and admitted at the time that he thought what he did was wrong: To wait 3 years afterwards, and then coordinate his bullshit story with a highly biased, limited view release of gun camera footage (that had been already released, pretty much when it happened) for propaganda purposes is craven...and a lie.
We don't even know that the guy was there. We DO know that the stated activities in the short clip, the alleged war crimes, etc are certainly not the whole body of evidence, as such they are not the 'truth'. Looking at the totality of the evidence available (including the 30 minute video) and understanding the tactics the enemy uses, the rules of engagement that were in effect, and the realities of being in a war zone make the stated 'facts' more bullshit.
