Future man,
My comment was that I have spent time around Evan, online & I know him to be a person who takes quite extraordinary care to ensure his reports are unbiased.
I was banned from TOL, for calling the moderator out for being biased. I will happily post that conversation. if you really want me to.
My wife uses my computer, that means her IP and mine are exactly the same. She signed into TOL, how she could do it is beyond me, I assume that they simply banned my username rather than my IP but the fact of the matter is it was MY WIFE they banned believing her to be me. It would have been easy enough to ask but, NO, they simply banned & I have no doubt implied it was me to all and sundry.
They checked out the IP because my lady got angry enough to tell some folk that she was leaving because of their anti-christian behaviour, this, apparently, was what go the IP checked.
As for the soldiers being American, it is only peripherally inmportant what nation they were from, had they been Brits, or Aussies or Kiwis or Hottentots my point would have been the same. They were the ones in the vehicle, they were the ones who were aware of the visibility shortcomings of that vehicle, NOT the civilians. Therefore they should have taken extraordinary care where there were civilians.
Oh & I'd be interested in knowing WHY Annette (Te Rongopai) could sign on to TOL. If it is mail address related that might explain it, as her email address is very different from mine. Though she & I do share a couple of email accounts, they are under my name, & they should have triggered the ban if she used one of those. So I assume she used one of hers & that the software didn't put two & two together.
Kiwimac