Collateralmurder.com is Wrong on War Crime Conclusion

These people obviously have an agenda. I viewed the video. These men are not pulling out a camera, but a MANPAD surface-to-air weapon.

It looked Russian.

Then, as the copter circled back to where the men were, and could clearly see the men on the ground, these "innocents" had already packed up the weapon and pretended to have nothing.

These so-called innocent bystanders had gathered around the weapon carrier to shield his weapon from view. They should have been taken out.

If it were just a camera, and they just wanted to videotape the chopper, then why didn't they keep filming as the chopper came back into view? Why were they all together on that corner providing cover for the weapons man? All of them were NOT innocents. They were men caught in the act of hiding behind a building, pulling out their Russian-made MANPAD, but couldn't get off a clear shot before the chopper went behind the buildings, out of sight.

Why was everything packed up so quickly as the choppper came back around? Why were the men so "casually" bunched up around the guy with the over-sized shoulder pack?

When the bullets started flying, the fellow with the MANPAD ran very fast, and dropped that weapon very quickly, but was rightly cut down with the other duplicitous men hanging around him, covering for him.

And the van that pulled up with the children in the front seat? You telling me the men were babysitting with the women at their day jobs, when the call came in to rescue the reporter under fire? Why were there children in a rescue vehicle? The reporter makes the call, says he's under fire, come get him, and the men look at each other and have to decide what to do with the children they're babysitting, while their women in burkas are at work, and there's no one to leave the children with, while they go pick-up this guy who was under fire?

Are you kidding me?

Those children were used as human shields by ugly, villainous, sinister men!

And websites like collateralmurder.com - who argue that these are trigger-happy Americans attempting a cover-up for a "war atrocity" - are agenda-driven, Left-wing ignoramuses. These activists are some of the most dangerous people in this Republic.

And that Army Intelligence private who supposedly leaked all this to us "poor, misled citizens", in order to awaken us to the evil acts we perpetrate upon the people of the world - that weak-minded dunce should be in trouble.

I watched the video, open to all possibilities from the start - wondering if this were an atrocity. I saw the men on the ground, watched their actions, saw the "camera," saw their behavior as the chopper came around, saw the men drive up in a van with children in it, looked up a MANPAD website, saw the Soviet surface-to-air shoulder weapon - it looked exactly like the weapon those terrorists were using - and concluded that the kid in Army Intelligence must believe he is one of those Anointed (Thomas Sowell) whose conclusions are much more correct than his superiors.

I'm not one of his superiors, and I'm sayin' - he's wrong! I saw what that kid saw and it ain't what he says he saw in the comfort of his desk at the Pentagon.

This kid's kiester should be shishkabobbed and dishonorably discharged! He's no hero.