Footage of an American massacre in Iraq 2007

[khoji]

@zxcvb

Though unfortunate, and ultimately preventable with a more robust Rules of Engagement(ROE),

If this was the “height of Iraq war”, as you put it, then the ROE, as you put it, become EVEN MORE IMPORTANT.
How can you just write-off a massacre by calling it merely “unfortunate”?

Can you kill a man by mistake and get excused from the court of law?

Four, No one really broke any rules here, the whole thing is a mistake,

How do you KNOW it was a mistake?
And how can you say no rules were broken when Rules of Engagement were not followed? Don’t you know that American government LIED to the world that these people were killed because they attacked Americans? **They had to come up with this lie because rules WERE broken. **

Also, possession of weapons is not a crime anywhere in the world. Especially in a country with no government that was being torn-apart by sectarian violence.
Didn’t those occupiers know about this obvious thing?

Now let me tell you that the ease and impunity with which those changezis attacked people, and the way they were laughing when they ran over bodies was the sign of their extreme hatred of Iraqis. You expect these high-school drop-out, muslim-haters to follow the Rules of Engagement?

I do believe that the US military should be more strict on target selection, but this a fine balancing act between safety of civilians vs safety of soldiers.

There was no concern of safety of soldiers from those civilians, because the soldiers were UP IN THE CHOPPER, you …

when you factor in the fog of war and the whole context of the situation, screw ups are unavoidable.

Are lies to cover-up those screw-ups also unavoidable?
How about calling this massacre a “massacre” and punishing those who committed those screw ups?