Los primeros golpes de Wikileaks

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1. Thirun dice:

   6 diciembre, 2012 a las 9:27 PM

   It amazes me how eisaly people read into a situation what isn’t there. Commenters here and at Willis’s site talk as if these admittedly unidentified-as-such journalists’ walked into the middle of a fire fight and ended up dead as a consequence. No such thing happened. At no time in the video did I see or hear gunfire from these men, at no time did the Apache crew report gunfire aimed at them, at no time did anything clearly identifiable as a weapon even get pointed at the camera. You could say that there was combat in the area, but the evidence of the tape itself gives no such mitigation. What we see is troops at a distance misidentifying cameras as weapons and 8 men milling about as a gang of insurgents (I like to put that in quotes because, if I were an able-bodied person in a country that had been invaded, devastated physically, financially, and morally, and had seen tens of thousands of men, women, and children who were not in the least belligerant blown apart or forced to leave there homes, I might be a bit insurgent, too). Instead of trying to get better identification or actually witnessing what any reasonable person would consider hostile action or even directing ground troops to try and capture possibly intelligence-laden men, the airmen open up with armor-piercing automatic weapons, laugh about the consequences, then attack a van attempting to rescue a wounded person with no weapon or anything conceivably weapon-like at hand. And nonchalantly pass off the wounding of a child. Then our military covers up the story as it has tried to do so many times before in this useless, immoral, horrible war. Dan, I know you have some antipathy towards Greewald, but he has a much better record on the truth than the Pentagon, and his point (which Willis perversely misstates at least 3 times) that this has become SOP seems incontravertible. How many families butchered at a party, how many wedding guests slaughtered, how many Bagrams and Abu Gharaibs and Guantanamos, how much collateral damage that is first denied, then misstated, then grudgingly admitted as an aberration does it take?