By Tim Shoemaker<\/p>\n
Yesterday, WikiLeaks<\/a> released a video called “Collateral Murder<\/a>” that shows two Apache helicopters firing upon Iraqis gathering in a street in Sadr City in 2007. Among those killed were two Reuters employees, whose cameras were allegedly mistaken for RPGs by the military personnel in the choppers. <\/p>\n Glenn Greenwald<\/a> wrote about it yesterday, along with another incident<\/a> by the US military regarding a similar matter in Afghanistan. Writes Greenwald:<\/p>\n The video is truly gruesome and difficult even for the most hardened person to watch, but it should be viewed by everyone with responsibility for what the U.S. has done in Iraq and Afghanistan (i.e., every American citizen).<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n These are the sort of events that occur during drawn out military occupations. We must be sure to place the blame for these incidents on the right people. It would be easy to watch this video and blame the troops. Instead, we must recognize that our troops are being put into these life or death scenarios where they must make split second decisions to kill or be killed because of policy decisions emanating from politicians in Washington, D.C. Americans need to stand up and hold their elected officials accountable for keeping us in these endless engagements, otherwise you can expect more of these type of incidents to continue.<\/p>\n H\/T to YAL’s Brian Beyer<\/a> and Matt Cockerill<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" By Tim Shoemaker Yesterday, WikiLeaks released a video called “Collateral Murder” that shows two Apache helicopters firing upon Iraqis gathering in a street in Sadr City in 2007. Among those killed were two Reuters employees, whose cameras were allegedly mistaken for RPGs by the military personnel in the choppers. Glenn Greenwald wrote about it yesterday, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3999,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-518418","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/518418","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3999"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=518418"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/518418\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=518418"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=518418"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=518418"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n