...by claiming that "he didn't know whether the Iraqis were armed" or "booby-trapped", or similar arguments. Listen to the video-- here's a link:
http://www.homelandsecurityus.com/Video%202.rmAt the beginning the squad approaches the mosque openly, calling out "who's in here?" They knew the building had been secured.
You can clearly hear one marine identify the Iraqis when the troops enter the room. "These are the wounded that they never picked up yesterday." This is BEFORE the shooting. The marines knew the Iraqis were unarmed, gravely wounded POWs that had been given field aid and left behind as
hors de combat or "out of the fight." They were NON-COMBATANTS at that point and the marines clearly knew it.
Near the 2/3 point you hear another marine say "Hey, this ones still alive" in reference to the POW who moved his arm, and someone else yells "well fuckin' kill him." Someone else yells "No!"
Near the end another person remarks in reference to the remaining wounded "yeah these are the guys they had here yesterday." This is near the very end of the video, during the last few seconds.
It's crystal clear that the marines knew the circumstances of the Iraqi POWs when they shot them (although the video only documents one death, four of the five POWs were evidently shot). To those who want to forgive and forget this atrocity because the marines were "just kids" or because they were in difficult circumstances-- will you be so willing to forgive the Iraqi insurgents who answer this by killing U.S. POWs? Remember how the Iraqi's treated Jessica Lynch?
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