Reheat Illuminator



Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: In Space Posts: 3,684

This is a very complicated issue and not one that's going to be resolved by those who have not ever been in combat commenting on the video's accuracy of depicting anything.



Manning should never have been in the US Army in the first place. He was obviously unfit. That's precisely why Obama should not have have used it for a social experiment.



This is a lesson for journalists who go around "free lance" on the battlefield of their own accord. They are responsible for what happens to them, not those who might mistake them or their equipment for enemy combatants or their possession of weapons.



You don't like it. Then don't ever send the US Military into War. This sort of **** happens. US Military Commanders do everything they possible can to avoid civilian casualties, but sometimes it is simply not avoidable.



For aviators, both Helicopters and fast moving jet operators, their worst nightmare is killing or injuring their own soldiers. This happens too.



This will be my only post in this thread. I have better things to do today than argue with a bunch of mostly people who know nothing about armed combat.



I disagree with Obama's pardon of Manning. He should not have been there, but he was. Based on what I know about him, he knew right from wrong. He should have been executed then we wouldn't have had to have this discussion about pardoning him...