Wikileaks Collateral Murder Video

[thehoodedsmack]

Who says I support Civilian deaths?

Nobody did.

This is just another video showing soldiers following orders with, unfortunately, results that involve uneeded deaths. It's sad and you can discuss it until the end of time, but sad and needless death has always been a part of war, and it always will be. You can discuss to death on ways to improve ROE, and that's fine, but stop using these videos to fuel your anti-War or anti-US arguments.

No, the idea of "this is the way it is, and always will be" is what's sad and needless. Also:

stop using these videos to fuel your anti-War or anti-US arguments.

Do you have any idea what you just said? To shed some light on what this appears as to an impartial (that's me, by the way) reader, you are suggesting that people should not use the incriminating evidence of military misconduct when judging the reliability of the military structure. Please reiterate or explain what you meant, if indeed I have misinterpreted your statement.

In the video all I see are a bunch of soldiers (albeit cocky, maybe even assholes) doing what they're supposed to and engaging targets that look like threats.

That video showcases the bureaucratic murder of civilians, who were of no threat to, may I say, an invading force, who were gunned down because the military supervisors saw fit to give absolute rights of judge, jury, and executioner to trigger-happy soldiers. And people are worried about Obama death-panels...

Edit: Edited in after your edit:

It's easy to sit and home and be an armchair politician and ethics professor in your warm house while watching videos of war, dissecting them to your liking and furthering your viewpoints in comfort.

It's also easy to press a button and take a life when you're miles away in an armored helicopter. What is your point, exactly? You're attacking, I assume, me? I've made no confrontation against you, but rather the views expressed, so to try to attack my character and lifestyle is irrelevant, childish, and nothing but a detriment to the goal of what I am now forced to assume is winning an argument. An argument with only one participant.