Ghoulish? Maybe. But it also helps us to understand conditions there, and
what the troops, pilots, and Iraqis are going through. I found it very
disturbing.

I don't question the motives of the pilots (not nearly enough info to do
that), I just think that all this posting of footage of Americans killing
enemies (Afghanistan & Iraq) is pretty tasteless. Sure, some of these
victims are evil men who are deserving of justice (death or not isn't
something I'll debate), and the pilots were probably acting under
self-defense or justifiable acts of war. I'm not blaming the pilots, I'm
not blaming the American troops or the efforts against terrorism.
I just think it's tasteless to show their deaths across the world,
especially in such trivial contexts. Imagine if their deaths were
accidental, and their families knew that their faces were being shown across
the world (remember the Somalis dragging the dead American soldiers, or the
people falling from the WTC?). I'm not attacking you (as you also found
them disturbing), just the general idea that it's OK to broadcast explicit
videos of people dying in such a trivial context. This isn't soldiers doing
the dirty work of analyzing battle footage. This is either trivia or
entertainment and I don't think either of those justify trivializing the
death of a group of human beings. As my quote from Randy said, when you
start taking other people's death as no big deal, that might be a sign you
really don't belong here amongst moral, civilized people.

Tony