Ouch. This watching the link below almost brings tears to my eye, tears of shame. I wonder what war can do to a mind, that the soldiers were so quick to kill, so quick to see innocent people as armed enemies. With the Trayvon Martin killing fresh in our minds, I think of how in that case, the killer supposed his life was endangered when he was punched in the nose, and he responded with deadly force. Even so, the soldiers in this video supposed they were upon an enemy that could attack, and they responded with deadly force. A gun is a trust, and those who bear them should learn where to draw the line. They should be taught the dangers of falsely killing, whether it be on the streets of America, or in a war in a foreign land.
"Collateral Murder," the video is called, and it is part of the secret information revealed by Pfc. Bradley Manning.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nH5vaaarpqk
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