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Originally Posted by _Richard_
you can see the two kids sitting in the front of the car.. if i had been trained to kill people from a helicopter, i would probably know for a fact that there was kids in that front seat.
They opened fire on that after barely making an excuse about the presence of weapons, and got the ok to fire by claiming the van was picking up bodies.
considering what the military has told the media about this incident, there is more than enough evidence here for a 'wtf' moment on what isn't being shown
the 37 minute one shows a building being hit with a hellfire missile with someone casually walking by and getting vaporized. they simply don't care
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You can see the kids because there was a zoomed bit with a caption telling you they were there. Could you see the kids before then because I had been looking at they van wondering where they were?
They opened fire on the van which did appear to have just turned up to clear up the mess. However I have no idea whether there has been a similar situation previously where the tidier-uppers tidied up and then picked up and used the RPGs the helicopter crew thought they saw which would make them extra jumpy.
Of course the military doesn't tell the media everything. The media participate in things so that they can get stories out first but they are also used by the military to both present things in a good light to the public at home and to make up misleading shit to confuse the enemy. [this is where I should be posting the pic of that Iraqi Minister saying everything was fine and the Americans were running away but I've forgotten his name]
Haven't seen the 37 minute video you refer to.