[Ratty]

Collateral Murder

Getting much media attention of that over there, Darky?

[Darkness]

Ratty, on 05 April 2010 - 06:11 PM, said:

Collateral Murder

Getting much media attention of that over there, Darky?

Nope, first I've heard of it.

Is that supposed to be some big scandal or something?

[Goto]

Wikileaks is pretty amazing, though...

[Jake]

First I've heard of it as well.


No way this is getting on the news.




edit: Cue Glenn Beck saying that pinko commie fa­gs are crying over dead Reuters spies/terrorists/whatever.

[Ratty]

It's a pretty scary video >.<

Was mentioned in the news here, albeit really briefly.

[JGJTan]

Jesus that's scary... no way I'm watching that video. :s

[Ratty]

Rah

[Darkness]

Wait how is it scary?

[Jake]

Darky! =D, on 06 April 2010 - 09:27 PM, said:

Wait how is it scary?

We let blind people shoot 30mm cannons.

[Ratty]

And that they sound like 13 year olds speaking over vent while playing an fps. EDIT: Or perhaps something you're more accustomed to; xbox live.

"Ha ha! He ran over the body in the tank!"
"Got 'em straight through the windshield!"

[Darkness]

Jake, on 06 April 2010 - 07:34 PM, said:

Darky! =D, on 06 April 2010 - 09:27 PM, said:

Wait how is it scary?

We let blind people shoot 30mm cannons.

I'm not sure that anyone could really expect them to see the two children in the front seat of the car. I'm not sure you can even really safely claim that those were the children. Just because the people who made the video put up arrows claiming that different dots were different people doesn't mean it's so. It's not as if the camera was very good quality.

[Jake]

Considering that one the soldiers on the ground who arrived about 10-20 minutes called for an evac for a wounded girl, I'm going to take a wild guess and say that nobody's lying about there being kids there.

Oh and there's that bit about someone lying about that group shooting, or how one guy with a tripod or whatever turned into multiple guys with AKs. And one dude with a camera becoming several RPGs.
And firing on a van full of people who pose no threat picking up a wounded guy? That's just classy.

Hoorah, etc.



edit: Isn't firing on unarmed people (especially civilians) for picking up the wounded a war crime?

[Darkness]

Jake, on 07 April 2010 - 01:54 PM, said:

Considering that one the soldiers on the ground who arrived about 10-20 minutes called for an evac for a wounded girl, I'm going to take a wild guess and say that nobody's lying about there being kids there.

Oh and there's that bit about someone lying about that group shooting, or how one guy with a tripod or whatever turned into multiple guys with AKs. And one dude with a camera becoming several RPGs.
And firing on a van full of people who pose no threat picking up a wounded guy? That's just classy.

Hoorah, etc.



edit: Isn't firing on unarmed people (especially civilians) for picking up the wounded a war crime?

I meant how the people who made the video implied that they could in fact see the children in the van before they began shooting. I'm not debating that they were really there.

And, well, I don't know how you can try to claim that there weren't people with weapons down there, unless you apparently know more from one video than several trained military people.

But yeah. Firing on a van full of people coming in to get an injured guy was pretty stupid. ;D

[JGJTan]

[Darkness]

JGJTan, on 07 April 2010 - 06:39 PM, said: