I can't believe the overreaction to this. This was not an "atrocity". It was not a "war crime." It's not as if the soldiers took blindfolded, handcuffed prisoners, lined them up against a wall and said "let's execute them."
As evidenced by the fact that the other wounded guy who showed his hands was not shot, the soldiers did not go in there with the intent to "execute" people.
This was just a typical "fog of war" situation in which a soldier, erring on the side of caution, may have made a mistake.
Something like this probably happened thousands of times in WWII.
The only reason to publicize a situation like this would be if the reporter had seen many such situations and felt there was a pattern of wrongdoing that was not being addressed by the military. That was clearly not the case, judging by the comments of Kevin Sites and every other embedded reporter. Otherwise, there was no reason to release this particular video to the world. I'm sure the cameraman took many hours of footage. Why was this one snippet deemed important enough to highlight?
The damage done (in that this now will be misinterpreted and exaggerated all over the Arab world) was not worth whatever the reporters hoped to achieve (which was what?)
I hate journalists.
It ain't the journalists' fault. He's just exploitin' it and bein' exploited.
This is the fault of all the wussies and morons who don't know what it means to wage war. Americans have been so weakened by the media and public education that they don't know what sort of deeds are required of our troops. Apparently they think that enemy combatants should be arrested and are entitled to "due process."
Please, God, don't let the ghouls and harpies win this one. Save that Marine.