This…is inexcusable!
A video has made it’s way onto the internet of an engagement in Afghanistan in 2007. Two Reuter’s reporters were killed, as were a handful of civilians, and two children were injured. Just collateral damage though, right? WRONG. In the video which you’ll find below, you can clearly see what the soldiers see, and you can hear what they hear. They see a gathering of middle eastern people, and take a good long look at what they’re carrying. They don’t see the camera bags, and satchels. They see AK-47s and RPGs. Only one person I saw in the video had what may have been a gun. No one in this group even pointed at the helicopter. They were all standing around, relaxed, just talking. One of the reporters was on his cell phone when the helicopter crew was given the go ahead to fire. Much of the group was gunned down then, and extra shots were fired to make sure. The second reporter which narrowly escaped the initial volley was running for cover when he was gunned down too. However, he was still alive, just badly wounded. He was still trying to crawl to cover while you could hair the gunner taunting him “Go ahead, reach for that gun”. Then a Van shows up. Three guys jump out to try and help the wounded man. As they are doing this, you can clearly see the faces of two children in the front of the van. They throw the wounded man in the van, and as they start to drive off, they are fired upon. Once the van comes to a dead stop, they fire upon it again. Keep in mind while all this is going on, the soldiers are making snide remarks and laughing about what they are doing. THEN, the foot soldiers come in to survey the area and take photos. One of the tanks runs over a body, and the guys in the helicopter just think that’s sooooo funny. The foot soliders find the two wounded children, and rush them off to a vehicle in order to get them to a local hospital. Here’s the video, I will warn you, it’s graphic. Watching this made me VERY angry….
It’s not often you’ll hear me say this, but I am ASHAMED to be affiliated with this army after watching that video. They sound like bratty teenagers with ZERO conscience, gunning down pixels in an xbox game. The sad thing is, I do NOT believe this to be an isolated incident. There is ABSOLUTELY NO FUCKING EXCUSE for something like this!!!! They took absolutely no time to actually assess the situation. They didn’t pay attention to what was going on, and they seemingly only wanted to gun some poor bastards down due to boredom. This was murder by the US Military, plain and simple. People still wonder why the world hates us?



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