the other side of the story
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the two reporters appeared to be embedded with known terrorists, and therefore count as combatants. At best, they were dumb enough to drive into the middle of a war zone in an unmarked van, without communicating to anyone. Also, wikileaks doesn't point out the convoy of American military vehicles that were taking fire, headed in the direction of an armed crowd with at least one RPG. (look closer at the video- there's definitely 5-6 ak-47's and 1 RPG at a minimum.) As for the language, Soldiers use rough, callous language. So, for that matter, do police, firemen, paramedics, doctors, etc. Most of you still enjoy watching videos of people getting taken out by out of control cars, tires, etc. (go look through the NWS animated GIF page.) Get off your high horses.
Tragic? absolutely. Murder? absolutely not.
Also check out http://www.blackfive.net/ for a military blog's perspective. (yes, it's biased, that's the point of a blog. that's not the point. They have insights that other, nonmilitary sources would be too biased or inexperienced with this situation to include.)
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the two reporters appeared to be embedded with known terrorists, and therefore count as combatants. At best, they were dumb enough to drive into the middle of a war zone in an unmarked van, without communicating to anyone. Also, wikileaks doesn't point out the convoy of American military vehicles that were taking fire, headed in the direction of an armed crowd with at least one RPG. (look closer at the video- there's definitely 5-6 ak-47's and 1 RPG at a minimum.) As for the language, Soldiers use rough, callous language. So, for that matter, do police, firemen, paramedics, doctors, etc. Most of you still enjoy watching videos of people getting taken out by out of control cars, tires, etc. (go look through the NWS animated GIF page.) Get off your high horses.
Tragic? absolutely. Murder? absolutely not.
Also check out http://www.blackfive.net/ for a military blog's perspective. (yes, it's biased, that's the point of a blog. that's not the point. They have insights that other, nonmilitary sources would be too biased or inexperienced with this situation to include.)
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