If you haven't seen this amazing real life video from the war in Iraq, this footage has been going viral all over the World this afternoon, and I wanted to post it. The images from WikiLeaks are graphic and hard to watch. But take the time, and remember that America is still a nation at War. Many of our Sons and Daughters from Cerritos, Long Beach, Anaheim, Yorba Linda, Compton and Los Angeles are being killed each and everyweek in this never ending battle.
Remember, this is not a video game, this is real life.
Time Magazine is reporting that this video showed U.S. firepower on brutal display, this time from the gunsight of an AH-64 Apache helicopter, as the crew converses casually about those they are about to kill. It appears to show the pilots mistakenly identifying a man carrying a camera — 22-year-old Reuters photographer Namir Noor-Eldeen, along with his driver, Saeed Chmagh, 40 — as armed insurgents, and then blowing them and 10 others to smithereens in July 2007.
The crews of the two Apaches can be heard speaking about a handful of men, saying some are armed with AK-47s and one with a rocket-propelled-grenade launcher, although it's not clear from the video as released that such weapons are being carried. For alleged insurgents carrying weapons while a U.S. attack helicopter circles overhead, the men seem remarkably nonchalant, strolling unhurriedly along a Baghdad street. After getting command approval to attack the armed group, an initial volley from an Apache's 30mm cannon blows some of them apart. An Apache crewman says, "Ha, ha, ha — I hit 'em." Another comment: "Look at those dead bastards." When a wounded man is seen crawling for cover, an Apache crew member hopes he reaches for a gun to justify shooting him again. "All you got to do is pick up a weapon," he says.
Read more: http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1978017,00.html#ixzz0kSyTDpKV
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