"Tony Volk" wrote in message
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Still iffy, though.

Still iffy in that you're presumably watching three human beings being
killed. Granted, they might not be nice human beings. But in the
paraphrased words of Randy "Duke" Cunningham, "I didn't ever get used to
killing. If you ever get used to killing, I don't think you belong here
[on
earth]". Calmly sitting at your PC and watching people die is ghoulish at
best (and I thought it was illegal to show videos of people dying?).


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.

The reason I say *iffy* is because We Don't Know.

What were the events leading up to this encounter? Had the Apache simply
happened upon 3 guys out in a field and proceeded to shoot? Or had the
pickup truck been tracked from an earlier encounter? Had the driver already
shot at US troops? Had he already shot at, and missed, the Apache doing the
shooting?

We Don't Know.

The video linked in the post is only about second half of the one I saw on
TV (Nightline, I believe). The part that isn't seen may well lead one to a
different conclusion as to the why and what.

Seeing only the shortened video clip here, I could very easily assume an
overzealous helicopter crew. Possibly even criminal. But that little clip is
by no means the entire story.

We don't know the entire story of this particular encounter.

Pete