This is very disturbing, please end this war.

My friend Damon had this to say:
As a West Point grad and ex-Cav officer, this engagement was clearly a violation of ROE, morality, justice. It has however become more common as war is now driven by strategic intel people sitting in AC offices rather than ground combat units. It's not surprising to see aviation conducting battle this way...ground forces would not have killed these people (except for the overly hooah units or the private mercenaries working for CIA). A good friend is a ground commander there now, LTC, and his stories of the Air Force wanting to wipe out people in his AO based on the supposedly "intelligent" intelligence people's reports are shocking. He told the AF to stand down, maneuvered his men to the supposed enemy, and found them to be a couple reporters filming a group of high school kids playing stick ball (intel has targeted reporters before) and on another mission a couple of mentally disabled people playing around a culvert pipe under the road.

So that's the operational issue. The strategic issue is more important. We shouldn't be there in the first place. Our military is now a tool of empire, i.e. the CFR, which runs our government. So the American empire in conjunction with the British empire who first carved up the people of Mesopotamia and created the current mess of a country called Iraq is now just remaking their satellite state into a new version that will submit to Anglo banks/corporations, and they're creating the staging base from which to launch WWIII against the great Persian people and the powers that come to its aid. We are no longer a free republic, so soldiers who think they are defending freedom are stuck with a massive disconnect between head and heart...the head is indoctrinated in CIA fabrications and the heart knows they're just killing poor people (we were attacked by a network of billionaires.. get them...war over). The obvious rage and hatred is an evident result of that disconnect and the level of narcissism that is being pumped into soldiers far more aggressively than in the past. This is unfortunately the voice of a modern Gestapo..."sit down, shut up, affirm me, affirm my beliefs, thank me for killing poor desert people, destroying their society and taking over their country, or F yourself, I'll beat your face in." And that mentality is now on home turf directed toward what they think is the stupid pathetic masses who need to be good little subjects, not citizens, and just be happy that more than half their income is being taken from them to fuel the most powerful, most deadly, most violent empire war machine ever invented. We oppress and kill far more than King George III ever dreamed of. Madison said "freedom cannot last long in the presence of a massive standing army." Nothing could be more obvious. Freedom is gone. Bill of rights...gone. NORTHCOM is ready to get you pathetic little subjects to shut your mouths. Isn't it interesting that in the middle of the biggest "freedom" crusade in history, the most free country in history has lost it all and become a dictatorship?
Many people can't see that. I understand. Young kids should not be so compartmentalized and manipulated in a profession like "intelligence" which is completely controlled by Ivy League elite "candy asses" (Wace's term...accurate when it comes to those punks). It's a farce. Everything funnels down from CIA (Yale/Harvard frat boys) strategic priorities and propaganda. They think they know the full picture, but they're only seeing the small version of the picture his controllers have incessantly pumped into their head. That's very sad...