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You’ve just made up loads of stuff with no evidence haven’t you? We should consider Collateral Murder much more damaging than the release of the video, the act

You’ve just made up loads of stuff with no evidence haven’t you? We should consider Collateral Murder much more damaging than the release of the video, the act itself has caused much more harm to your beloved American interests.

420codebro 7y ago
Fuck those journalists in that clip. I’m so fucking tired of the virtue signaling around this. Don’t hang around armed fighters when an American Bradley unit is getting fucked up 2 blocks away and apaches are circling. Common sense. Or rather the lack there of.
hutzlibu 7y ago
What is collateral murder?
- andy_ppp 7y ago
  https://youtu.be/HfvFpT-iypw https://youtu.be/HfvFpT-iypw A video some claim was leaked by Chelsea Manning (to Wikileaks) showing what I believe to be war crimes by US military.
lixtra 7y ago
> We should consider Collateral Murder much more damaging I think it was right to release the video. But to me, with no military experience and and non-native speaker, it seemed totally possible that the pilots took the reporters for combatants. I wouldn’t want to judge them. In comparison, I found the video of a cop shooting a fellow American crying in fear with an automatic rifle because he was reaching for his pants much more disturbing. Or the autistic kid tazed to death in the shower.
- astazangasta 7y ago
  What about when they came back to shoot people who were helping the wounded? Also, "it was a war zone" is a shitty excuse given that the war was illegal and we had no business positioning helicopters over civilian marketplaces in Iraq, period.
- droithomme 7y ago
  Shooting a journalist because you think his camera is a gun means you did not exercise reasonable diligence in identifying the enemy target and are still liable for the death. If someone goes to a playground and shoots the children there and says they thought they were armed robbers, it isn't accepted as a defense. The pilot came back for and shot a guy in a van who was taking his two kids to school. He had stopped to help the reporter. Anyone watching the video can see the kids in the van. That the pilot didn't proves he was criminally negligent.

420codebro 7y ago

Fuck those journalists in that clip. I’m so fucking tired of the virtue signaling around this. Don’t hang around armed fighters when an American Bradley unit is getting fucked up 2 blocks away and apaches are circling. Common sense. Or rather the lack there of.

hutzlibu 7y ago

What is collateral murder?

andy_ppp 7y ago
https://youtu.be/HfvFpT-iypw https://youtu.be/HfvFpT-iypw A video some claim was leaked by Chelsea Manning (to Wikileaks) showing what I believe to be war crimes by US military.

lixtra 7y ago

> We should consider Collateral Murder much more damaging I think it was right to release the video. But to me, with no military experience and and non-native speaker, it seemed totally possible that the pilots took the reporters for combatants. I wouldn’t want to judge them. In comparison, I found the video of a cop shooting a fellow American crying in fear with an automatic rifle because he was reaching for his pants much more disturbing. Or the autistic kid tazed to death in the shower.

astazangasta 7y ago
What about when they came back to shoot people who were helping the wounded? Also, "it was a war zone" is a shitty excuse given that the war was illegal and we had no business positioning helicopters over civilian marketplaces in Iraq, period.
droithomme 7y ago
Shooting a journalist because you think his camera is a gun means you did not exercise reasonable diligence in identifying the enemy target and are still liable for the death. If someone goes to a playground and shoots the children there and says they thought they were armed robbers, it isn't accepted as a defense. The pilot came back for and shot a guy in a van who was taking his two kids to school. He had stopped to help the reporter. Anyone watching the video can see the kids in the van. That the pilot didn't proves he was criminally negligent.