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Bradley Manning and Julian Assange Both Nominated for Nobel Peace Prize

The point is there are obviously unarmed people in the cross fire. (hence every single adult was killed) And the decission to fire was made even though the people never fired one shot. (never to their death) If you stand by what you say then you are saying militairy law makes it ok to kill unarmed people standing around people with guns when a shot was never fired.

Militairy law makes it ok for a gunship to light up an unamred man trying to help out another wounded unarmed man? If so those sound like some ****ed up evil laws that need to be dealt with before stupid people do too much harm with it.

The ROEs allow for what they did there. And you keep repeating "unarmed," implying that this was known by the crews of the gunships. They understandably mistook their cameras for RPGs. Watch the video. Its pretty easy to see how they made that mistake. The guy with the camera was crouching behind a wall and the gunship crews mistook the long tubular thing in his hand (camera w/ telephoto lens) for an RPG. The video actually exonerates the gunship crews.

I'd bet the just about anyone watching that video, objectively, could see how this occurs. Bottom line, they thought the entire group was armed hostiles. Hostiles in an extremely active combat zone.

And as far as the unarmed guy, assuming you mean the van that pulled up. Yeah, they're authorized to engage to prevent the recovery of weapons on scene.
 
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"Thus the Arab Spring, as it has been termed, is well-represented in the Nobel Peace Prize nominees this year, and with good reason: It was a remarkable grassroots revolution that is still changing the North African and Middle East dynamic and, indeed, the world."



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Sorry, DemSocialist - your article begins with a false premise ...

Revolution, possibly. Grassroots, definately not.

Wikileaks exposes U.S. role

"An article entitled "U.S. secretly backed Syrian opposition groups" by Craig Whitlock (Washington Post, April 18) described in great detail the information contained in U.S. diplomatic cables that Wikileaks had sent to news agencies around the world and posted on its web site. The article summarizes what these State Department cables reveal about the secret funding of Syrian political opposition groups, including the beaming of anti-government programming into the country via satellite television."


The Arab American News - Syria and U.S. imperialism
 
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If you want to be pissed off at someone, you need to be pissed off at the insurgents, because they are the ones that created the combat environment that is the modern day battlefield. They, are the ones that are doing the most to cause non-combatant casualties.

The reason there is an insurgency, mein fiend, is because U.S. troops opened fire on unarmed civillians protesting the closure of their newspaper, early in the occupation. The Iraqi CPA would not tolerate any criticism of its policies. There never was sectarian violence, that was a cover story invented by the lamestream media to hide the U.S. training of the Wolf Brigade death squads.
 
I am heartened to see some of the hard core libs in this forum that always take the left wing side see these two scum bags for what they are. There is hope

Yeah, yeah. Another liberal bashing post.
Many liberals, such as me, despise Assange for his arrogance, his immense disregard for the consequences of his actions, and his part in harming the intelligence community
 
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