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Originally posted by RocHard
Have you ever played paintball? It's about as close to combat as you can get. At any given moment, no matter how well concealed you are, you can be hit.
Now imagine walking down a crowded street with a loaded machine gun and at any moment you can get shot. The only difference is your not gonna get a welt from a paintball, your gonna die. Your walking down the street and you have kids comeing up to you asking for gum or chocolate, and then suddenly your fellow Marine walking next to you goes down becasue he was just shot in the neck.
This is a war zone, and warzones have civilians in then. The Marines aren't walking down the street shooting people at random; They are dealing with threats and engaging in fire fights.
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The basic problem are were the orders given to Sgt Massey as he stated, if so they are against the Geneva Convention and a charge of war crimes could be made.
I have a friend who was in Iraq as a Royal Marine Commando. His job was to go into villages and do a recce with his team. They would approach a village and Iraqia would rush out shouting "Soldiers" "Soldiers" "Soldiers" some holding objects they could not determine. They kept walking, at times he says they were terrified but their orders were to proceed.
US Marines in the same situation called in the airforce to level the village.
There to establish a democracy, get rid of terrorists and make the world a safer place?
Look at the difference between how the UK dealt with a terrorist war in Northern Ireland and how the US deal with it.
Look at what has happened in Yugoslavia and the disgust by the West of these tactics.