{"id":523013,"date":"2010-04-09T18:56:09","date_gmt":"2010-04-09T22:56:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/seattletimes.nwsource.com\/html\/northwestvoices\/2011570909_wikileaksvideoofiraqarmyassault.html?syndication=rss"},"modified":"2010-04-09T18:56:09","modified_gmt":"2010-04-09T22:56:09","slug":"wikileaks-video-of-iraq-army-assault","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/523013","title":{"rendered":"WikiLeaks video of Iraq army assault"},"content":{"rendered":"

Civilians: What were their crimes?<\/strong><\/p>\n

The WikiLeak footage as described in Amy Goodman\u2019s column [\u201cIraq\u2019s war collateral damage includes civilians and journalists,\u201d Opinion, April 9] is indeed graphic and horrific.<\/p>\n

I am sure there will be those who say that some of the \u201ccivilians\u201d killed were carrying AK-47s and possibly even a rocket-propelled grenade, which made them fair game.<\/p>\n

And yet, regardless of whether they were carrying weapons, as I watched these Iraqis get summarily slaughtered by an Apache helicopter gunship flying too high to be seen or heard by its victims, a question came to mind: What, exactly, did these poor people have to do with 9-11?<\/p>\n

\u2014 Dave Richards, Bainbridge Island<\/em><\/p>\n

Comparing military service to video games unpatriotic<\/strong><\/p>\n

There was a time in the discourse of Seattle that heated, ignorant, mean-spirited opinions such as expressed by Daniel Ruuska [\u201cWikiLeaks video shows 12 dead in Iraq army assault,\u201d NWVoices, April 8] would not have been offered, let alone published. The portrayal of the U.S. military service and its members as gun-happy murderers is so blatantly offensive and uniformed it is beyond belief.<\/p>\n

To make use of a tragedy to support one\u2019s presupposed and errant opinions is classic far-leftist mantra. Throw out enough lies and filth often enough and it will be perceived as truth. Likening military service to limbic video-gamers and gang members is beyond the pale.<\/p>\n

I doubt folks sharing Ruuska\u2019s view have ever considered serving a higher cause by putting on a uniform and, as such, placing the country before the self. It is understandable \u2014but no less deplorable \u2014that our service members are once again spat upon when citizens will not honor the commitment and sacrifice these brave souls undertake. Instead, their service is marred by cowardice and self-serving vitriol.<\/p>\n

\u2014 Mark Bowers, Issaquah<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Civilians: What were their crimes? The WikiLeak footage as described in Amy Goodman\u2019s column [\u201cIraq\u2019s war collateral damage includes civilians and journalists,\u201d Opinion, April 9] is indeed graphic and horrific. I am sure there will be those who say that some of the \u201ccivilians\u201d killed were carrying AK-47s and possibly even a rocket-propelled grenade, which […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2861,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-523013","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/523013","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\/2861"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=523013"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/523013\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=523013"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=523013"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=523013"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}