Color me cruel but I see nothing done to any of those families that wasn’t fully deserved and earned.
There’s no way an ambush of that size and complexity gets set up without everyone in the area playing along.
We really need to start reworking our cultural definition of “innocent civilian” in wars such as this.
Well, more than likely at least some of the Iraqis were aware of the placement of the IED in the road. As far as the rest of the activities that day, who knows. It is always sad when children are killed. That being said, this is the nature of the enemy. They do not hesitate to put children in the mix. If our own Marines do not hesitate to defend themselves, then the enemy and some in our own media claim a massacre. And that I do not believe.