Quote Originally Posted by amat View Post
Come on guys we aren't conditioned for war like they are. Andre I don't know if he's being critical or not but he's right, these guys are in a situation most of us could never imagine ourselves in and we don't know how we would react. They are essentially trained killers, actually killing. Most likely we would do the same thing. BTW they weren't all innocent civilians and the dude's camera (RIP) did look like a weapon, they clearly thought he had an RPG. To say they are intentionally massacring civilians is a huuuuge stretch. The photographers were running around with guys who had AK-47's and firing on troops, they had to know there life was in danger. They had buddies getting fired on of course they are going to want some blood. The ground I'd ask everyone to reserve their judgements, these guys were placed in war. They are going to have a different train of thought then us keyboard slamming liberals. It's sad because these guys are going to come home, and obviously they are going to come home with a completely different mind with stories and views that normal civilians just couldn'tarelate to. This is a war where nobody is following the rules from the American government to the insurgency fighting in Iraq, these guys aren't holier then though all the time either.
I agree they have a different training than us. However, it's kinda hard to neglect how they talk about the peoples they shoot in, how they confuse camera for guns and how they are extremely eager to shoot, especially when you see 2 kids in a Van and that the peoples picking up the wounded have obviously no weapons and no belligerent intentions, if they wanted them to leave the corpses and peoples on the ground they only had to shoot 2-3 rounds around and you can be sure they would have left right away. I do not only question their behaviors but also how they were talking and laughing, not caring they did shoot on children, I understand the different frame of mind but it's not enough to forgive the whole situation an their whole behaviors during the "encounter".