People deserve to know if civillians are being killed. And people should know what kind of highschool drop outs are behind the wheel of a four million dollar chopper gunner paid for with my tax dollars while mowing down innocents.
Question; is it legal for the military and govt to cover up operations even if they're illegally killing civillians in the name of national security.
People don't understand what war is. It isn't marching out to the clearing and shooting at each others arms and legs until one side says uncle. Neither side wears a white hat.
Armed combatants run and dodge between civilians to keep from being killed. They shoot at oour soldiers from occupied houses. They pull their men out and then take pictures of the dead family that lived there.
Dead civilians are great propaganda for our enemy.
Civilians can't handle the truth about war. People die. Civilians die. People with cameras die, because people with nervous trigger fingers see a Surface to air missle launcher.
Carrying a rifle does not warrant immediate execution by a foreign military.
Carrying a rifle in a hostile area can bring down a hail of gunfire.
This is exactly the reason we do not publish this information. People sitting in their easy chair, in no danger, never having to face a kill or be killed situation decide that a simple mistake is the worst of warcrimes.
You have mere seconds to decide if the person that just turned on you is holding a cell phone or a pistol. If that person is a reporter with a camera pointed at you, or a missle launcher about to destroy you.
If you want a war with no civilian casualties, then talk all sides into going out in some distant field to face each other, and stand their and shoot until one side is gone. It won't happen. The smaller forces will always hide behind the skirts of women and use children as shields. Their leaders will always use the killing of these people against the larger force. Simple people will fall for it every time. War is death. DOn't want to kill someone? Then don't go to war.
Every friendly fire incident, or fire into civilians, is investigated, and if improper it will be prosecuted. Most killings are accidents, you play with high explosives with nervous people, people will die, & not always the right ones.
Sorry to disappoint you. There is no innocent war. There is no army riding in on white horses, withdrawing from fire so that civilians won't be hurt. When someone shoots at you, you shoot back. Civilians will be killed. Its the nature of the beast.
Oour enemy knows this, they also know that our people are ignorant to the facts of war. Our people believe that our smart weapons can explode and hit only those that would do us harm.
The camera probably shows the whole incident, but I bet it only shows the worst of the US side. It doesn't show what led to the incident.
Stop being a pawn for the enemy. Think about our civilian casualties on 9-11. You can decry Iraq as not being linked to 9-11. But by all counts, Afganistan is linked. So when you cry over their dead, don't forget about our dead. They killed 3000 people that day. We had to go to war, or thousands more would have been killed in further attacks. We didn't want this war, but we won't back down from it either.
Get over it. People die in war. We try not to hit civilians, but alot of the time we don't have the luxury of being an arm chair quarterback and decide if the person whos life was in danger acted appropriately. Thats why the military investigates and prosecutes their own. They know what is normal, what is a mistake, and what is criminal.
I am still waiting for anything shocking to come out of this leak.
Our military kills civilians and hides that from the innocent minds of our people, who can't understand why a child is killed. Every war this has been done. Revolutionary war, Civil war, WWI, WWII, Korea, Vietnam,
and every conflict since then.
