[Joe Brower]

[Lunatic Fringe]

How is it a war crime to kill someone who was shooting at you?

[OPS4]

Lokks like they used two different incidents, it also looked like they fired out in the field further from the rolling wounded.

I would call for an investigation of this clip through
Accuracy in Media.
http://www.aim.org/

Ops4 God Bless America!

[m87339]

Where's the alleged "war crime?"

[OXENinFLA]

There's no way to tell what this guy did to get shot in the 1st place.(I'm guessing it was something that showed the soldiers he was the enemy.)

[Lunatic Fringe]

BTW, if you watch the ticker tape, you can see that this clip was heavily edited. What was your friend afraid that others would see?

[reluctantwarrior]

Dear Joe,

You asked for context, it is impossible to ascertain. Was this guy wounded while attacking the marines? A noncombatant? If he is still moving around and has a weapon then he is still a threat and shooting him again is good policy. I can't tell if he had a weapon or if he was capable of continued action but the marines felt he was so they smoked him.

[null and void]

Link doesn't open for me.

If it were real evidence cnn would be playing it wall-to-wall 24/7 wouldn't they??

[theDentist]

The most dangerous thing in the world is to take on a Marine in a battle zone. All that proves is an enemy soldier died after being shot. And since you don't know where the shot came from, there's no way to know who fired the fatal shot. You swedish friend is grasping at straws.

[dead]

“Hell yeah, that was awesome! Let’s do it again!”

That’s exactly the reaction I would have if I killed one of thousands of bastards trying to kill me and my friends and brothers.

Hell yeah.

[cripplecreek]

Ive seen the clip but ive also heard that dead bodies in iraq have a disturbing tendency to set up and fire weapons.

That one wont.

[counterpunch]

That Iraqi put up more of a fight than the VC that Kerry killed in Vietnam.

[stylin19a]

If that's the best he has...fugetaboutit.

The interview was edited.
The video starts at the end, not the beginning of the fight, kinda like the Rodney King video.

[reagan_fanatic]

Why was the tape edited so much and what acts did the wounded man engage in before he was shot?

There is more here than meets the eye.

[William McKinley]

I see a bad guy getting shot. What's the problem?

[Avenger]

Watch the scrolling text at the bottom of the screen. You will see very clearly that the video has been spliced at two points. Once while the man is on the ground and once while interviewng the soldier. Creative editing. There is no telling what was really going on, what the news correspondent said or even whether the interview with the soldier had anything whatsoever to do with that incident (which is extremely unlikely.)

[isthisnickcool]

If this guy was a combatant and the shooter was a sniper the sniper would have hit him once then again if he had to. Likely from a secure spot far away. Not up close like this where the guy could have thrown a grenade or shot back suddenly.

In fact, in Iraq, some American snipers have shot to injure then shot to kill. It makes a point.

These guys did nothing different than what a sniper would have. Just closer.

Moral of the story? It's a f'ng war. Don't kill American kids. It pisses their friends off.

[CougarGA7]

I would tell your Swedish friend that you cant really comment on the clip until you see the whole unedited news report. The ticker at the bottom of the screen skips twice.

[JeeperFreeper]

This was looked into back then. He was shot when trying to put out an IED. The Marines could then go get him while under fire from his fellow terrorists or let him suffer. I for one am not going out to get a wounded terrorist who was shot while attempting to kill me or my buddies. Put him out of his misery. Tough choices, but f****** with Marines is very risky business. The CNN camera man could have gone out to get this P.O.S. just as easily, but didn't because of risk. (That should tell you alot about the situation out there that day.)And as far as the Marine having remorse, Marines are warriors, not the usual prey of terrorist, who specialize in attacking defenseless women and children. Hence, this P.O.S. was sent to hell. Terrorists want jihad and martyrdom. Marines are happy, literally happy, to oblige.

[Jaxter]

Bump for later.

[roses of sharon]

Tell you Swedish friend that our soldiers are subject to rules, laws, and morals, and are punished when caught.

Then ask him if Saddam and Sons were?

There are numerous examples of the strict rules our soldiers are under, and some have been punished. (to my distress)

We need no propaganda video to tell us that the USA is a nation built on the rule of law.