It’s amazing how sick so many people here can be, and how you can make yourselves believe what you want to believe to justify practically anything. I am ashamed that I ever called myself a freeper if this is what the typical response to something as criminal as this is going to be here. After seeing this video (yes, I saw the FULL video) and then seeing the responses here on FR, all I can say is that I have had enough.
You said they were in the shade. Post 41 clearly makes you a liar.
Get the heck off FR liar.
I'm sure the rest of us will sadly miss your valuable contributions to the discussions around here. I watched the video too. Since I recognized the anti-American and pro-terrorist leanings of the editors of the video and of the WikiLeaks organization, I was not quite as moved by their "story development" (their own words in the credits at the end of the video) as you apparently were.
As others have pointed out, the Apaches were there in response to a call for air support from our troops who had been ambushed. The Apaches locate a group of armed men in the area. The journalists who were killed appear to have been the kind of useful idiots that the insurgents love to use to capture their ambushes on video and broadcast them to the world, but who never seem to assist the coalition troops responsible for protecting them in the war zone in locating the insurgents. When our troops are attacked (which had just happened) the job of our air support folks is to suppress and eliminate anyone who is engaged in those ambush activities. It appears that this group was just such an ambush team and that they were allowing the journalists to record their ambush. As for the vehicle and its occupants that came to the assistance of the insurgents, they entered an active battlezone and experienced the reasonably foreseeable consequences of that action.
Well if it upsets you that much, go ahead and leave. You won’t be missed, don’t worry.
I killed a kid in Iraq. We blew his guts out all over the pavement. The little SOB had it coming. Was it sad that it had to be a kid? Sure. But there are two extremely important factors to bear in mind:
1) none of those filthy, backstabbing hajis can be trusted
2) they would each take tremendous pleasure in killing you and your entire family, and they certainly wouldn’t be concerned about who was/wasn’t armed
Get off your high horse, please.
Have you ever been in a war zone? Have you ever had to walk down an IED laden street? Ever received enemy sniper, machinegun, rpg, or mortar fire? Ever lost a buddy to a suicide bomber or a building rigged to explode? Ever had a friend maimed for life? Ever been wounded? Ever had to take another human being's life?
"Reporters" sure think hanging out with a bunch of terrorists is a good idea; real funny. Its a real good story as they lie in wait to kill Americans while hiding behind women and children.
Better men than yourself are sent to to deal with the enemies of America.
High stress situations cause thoughts and emotions to run through and sometimes, yeah you laugh. Sometimes you laugh at the situation; you ease the stress and preasure of the situation. What would you do Nancy; cry?
Unfortunately a "reporter" was killed as collateral damage. But you know something? When you serve as the propagnda wing of a terrorist group, you cease being an innocent bystander. If you setup in an ambush and throw your weapons down you are STILL a terrorist. It was all fine and good until thier little ambush was foiled. I know that pains you a few more faces an numbers couldn't be added to the ticker on CNN.
If you're so ashamed of calling yourself a FReeper, go on back to DU or moveon. Come back when you find your twig and berries and have more sympathy for the Patriots of this country than the terrorists.
War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse. The person who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself. John Stuart Mill