Poor fellow Iraq – poor fellow America.

It seems obvious to me this type of thing happens all the time, hence over one million deaths in Iraq and Afghanistan where innocent people were in the wrong place at the wrong time. But usually it’s portrayed by the military as being all insurgents, as was the case in this instance.

I guess the lesson here is if the US military is in your neighbor hood, best to hunker down inside until they leave. Because they will not hesitate to shoot you dead and then lie about it.

I’m not belittling or being condescending about your post as to what you understand the situation might have been. But aren’t you a little suspicious about the explanation that you just posted?

I have a lot of problems with scattered reports that really only lead us to make assumptions. I take this incident to be suspicious…and not from the men’s side who were cut down.

We’ve all seen or heard about a type of incident before where military made a bad call, or they purposely killed innocent people.

Speculations begin to fly everywhere when something like this happens and the first thing we think of is, “the miliary hasn’t really released all of the facts.” We seem to automatically accept, in our minds, that our military is going to release completely truthful accounts and intelligence that lead to certain actions.

What we know so far…It derives from all of the same types of rhetoric that occurs iwhen military operations are in question from all the similar types of sources.

Not playing devil’s advocate, but we have a history where our military leaders covering up or manipulated (lied or distorted the truth) about incidents involving actions taken that required a split decision or difficult circumstance that required making quick distinctions as to “who was enemy combatants vs civilian”. This was no split decision nor did I see a difficult set of circumstances in which to make the call.

I’ve taken mind reading 101 about a hundred thousand times and I’ve failed it that many times.

Even if there were any insurgent activities two blocks away…those guys could have also gathered to dicuss how to try and defend their neighborhood area…especially if they had families in the nearby area. No place is safe in Iraq. I would be on edge every second of the day. And even as a civilian I would carry any weapon that I could manage.

I saw the video, I heard the pilot talk with command, I watched the group of men…and I’m not buying their justification. The chopper pilots had no idea as to what these men were engaged in other than being gathered at a corner and two or three obviously had weapons.

Would you enter a potential combat area with a group of men where only about a 1/3 were carrying weapons?

We’re big boys and girls, give it to us straight, we can take it.

Ah, if only it were so that faith in the true makeup of this nation would be given it’s rightful dose of the truth as to the machinations.

This I know, is what gives cause for the manipulators tight lips..
Security clearance for lies with impunity.
Hack..

Hell, if I lived in Iraq I would want to carry more than an AK around, if at all possible. I’d want a couple of back-up handguns, a knife… Hmmm, that’s sounds like my old neighborhood in the south side of Dallas where I grew up.

In my opinion…looks like these guys were gunned down for no reason.