{"id":4212,"date":"2010-04-05T19:09:51","date_gmt":"2010-04-06T02:09:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.candlelightstories.com\/?p=4212"},"modified":"2010-04-20T17:58:38","modified_gmt":"2010-04-21T00:58:38","slug":"wikileak-video-appears-to-show-u-s-military-killing-without-cause","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/2010\/04\/05\/wikileak-video-appears-to-show-u-s-military-killing-without-cause\/","title":{"rendered":"WikiLeak Video Appears to Show U.S. Military Killing Without Cause"},"content":{"rendered":"

Extremely graphic video that shows killing:<\/span><\/p>\n

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WikiLeaks<\/em><\/a>, an organization that releases whistle-blower information, has released a 2007 video that appears to be part of a U.S. military cover-up. It shows U.S. Apache helicopter gunship crews shooting a group of men on a sidewalk that included two Reuters journalists. They also kill innocent people who arrive to help the wounded, seriously injuring two small children in the process. We can hear the helicopter gun crews begging for clearance to fire on people who are simply talking on a street corner. After killing most of them, they then beg for permission to kill a man who stops his van to render assistance to a victim (one of the journalists, in fact) who is crawling on the sidewalk.\u00a0 Even if the soldiers thought the van was in fact trying to rescue wounded insurgents, so what?\u00a0 Since when and under what rules of war are medical personnel or rescuers fired upon and killed for helping the wounded?\u00a0 That’s a war crime.<\/p>\n

I cannot see anything on this video that would give any sane and rational person the slightest motive for firing a weapon.\u00a0 It is clear and simple murder.<\/p>\n

After seeing this video, I think it would have been perfectly justifiable for anyone, including an American, to have taken these helicopters down.\u00a0 This makes one wonder just how many attacks against American troops might actually be perfectly justifiable self-defense.\u00a0 The idea that money I’ve earned actually goes into the pockets of murderous military personnel like this crew is hard to accept.\u00a0 What’s really frightening is how widespread these bad soldiers must be in our military.\u00a0 After all, these gunship crews are supposed to be the cream of the crop.\u00a0 These soldiers should not want to live with what they did.<\/p>\n

I think everyone should show this video on every web site in the U.S.\u00a0 And we should find the men in these helicopters and on the radios and charge them with murder.\u00a0 If this is how we are fighting our wars, I want no part of it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Extremely graphic video that shows killing: WikiLeaks, an organization that releases whistle-blower information, has released a 2007 video that appears to be part of a U.S. military cover-up. It shows U.S. Apache helicopter gunship crews shooting a group of men on a sidewalk that included two Reuters journalists. They also kill innocent people who arrive […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[298,163],"tags":[374,1028],"class_list":["post-4212","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-opinion","tag-iraq","tag-wikileaks"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4212","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4212"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4212\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4217,"href":"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4212\/revisions\/4217"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4212"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4212"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4212"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}