pits and poisoned apples: Collateral Murder on civilian, children, a father and two reporters included.

Collateral Murder on civilian, children, a father and two reporters included.

The latest video from Wikileaks, titled 'Collateral Murder,' on April 3rd, 2010, depicting a military mission in July, 2007, when 12 civilians, including 2 reporters from Reuters, were killed by 30mm cannon on the Apache helicopter. According to a former individual, now members of Iraq Veterans against War, the whole operation by no means violates the standard procedure and was on the base of everyday military practice. The Reuters asked the Pentagon for this video in accordance with the Freedom of Information Act but received no response. The 12 murdered civilians include two children who was on the way to school with their father, also dead, driving them to the school. The father was shot dead when he tried to give a hand to the injured reporters.

The video leads not only severe criticism on individual soldiers about their morality, since they obviously noticed the two child were injured and laugh at the civilian bodies. The further response from campaign like Iraq Veterans against War remind people that a problematic military system and patriotic ideology exist, though they do not attempt to morally justify the deed, which in my opinion they did try to distract the attention at some point. It also reminds me of how everyone from the left focus on the US healthcare reform yet let go the adding of more GIs into Afghanistan and Obama's stand on nuclear technology control instead of giving up the nuclear idea...i think of "I am not morally justifying anything but..." and how people make themselves as rational as they can and are too scared of being an angry bitch...