Ok... I saw this video about 5 months ago, I am a Marine, and I work in an attack helicopter squadron, what you guys don't see in this vidoe is what happened before the helicopter opened fire on those Iraqis. This event actually happened during the war itself. Not to far from where this happened ws an encampment of Army personel, and every friday night, like clockwork they'd come under mortar attack from a field just west of their position. So one friday night the Army decided to do something about it, as luck would have it these guys hadn't finished setting up their mortar tubes yet. Now I know that last fact sounds fishy after watching the video, but laster inspection after the stike they found mortars and grenades in the bigger truck. In my opinion it's better to go in with an Apache an fuck them up from a mile away than send a squad in and risk losing more men, I don't give a shit how inhumanly those guys were put away, it doesn't matter when your dead. Their bodies weren't left out in that field to rot, they were buried in a nearby muslim cemetary. I was in Iraq at this time, and the pilots in my squadron were faces with the same type of things, and I saw the footage of some of our attacks. It's war, and people will die. In respects of our policy on combating terrorism. As a servicemember it's my duty to follow the orders of our president, so I have no room to protest, even if I don't wholly agree on how it's being handled. Our country suffered an unprovoked attack, and you can't argue with that. I had the chance to interact with the local people in Iraq, and many other of the Arab nations, and one thing I can say is they are very dedicated to their beliefs, all of them. And on the same note many of them are uneducated, which makes it easy for tribal leaders and clerics to get as many people as they have to hate America, because it's easy. Our nation is extremely powerful, and I do believe that we do go overboard in keeping our interests protected abroad. But there is no reason why these people need to fight us, we intend to leave, but all we want is to ensure that Iraq is a stable region before we leave, and no one need question the logic in that. If you do than you have some thinking to do. I say again, the men on the video were blown the fuck away, but they were not innocent farmers, they were combatants, who had killed, and they got their due in full!
