I think his point was that you are not only finding soldiers there...that there are civilians living there as well and that not all of them are enemy combatants. Like I said before...it is a messed up situation where the line between who is a good guy and who is a bad guy is pretty blurred and hard to delineate, but I would have to say that I do think they acted inappropriately and didn't go far enough to positively ID that they had weapons. Our tech is good enough to do that. As someone else stated, the delay between when you hear the shots firing and when you see them hitting the ground and the people is several seconds, indicating that these gunships were at a good distance. Since the people were not acting suspicious, they could have moved in closer to ID what they were carrying. They also did not have to shoot up the van that was picking up the wounded...as a former medic, that made me sick. These soldiers should be brought up on war crimes for that. There is no excuse to fire on a vehicle that is picking up wounded people, regardless of whether they are the enemy or not. That was just plainly criminal. I couldn't tell that there were kids in the car...not sure if a more well trained eye would have picked that up or not, so I won't comment on that...just the fact that they fired on a vehicle picking up the wounded is enough for me. That violates everything I was taught when I was in the Army and it just violates good morals and what is right. War does not excuse not doing what is right.
Eric -----Original Message----- From: Chris Stoner [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Tuesday, April 06, 2010 9:45 AM To: cf-community Subject: Re: This is not good.... I am in Iraq (as a civilian contractor) and can assure you when the rockets start flying over the wall it sure feels like a military zone. On Tue, Apr 6, 2010 at 5:29 PM, Vivec <[email protected]> wrote: > > Iraq is not a military zone..there are civilians. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Want to reach the ColdFusion community with something they want? Let them know on the House of Fusion mailing lists Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:315153 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
