funny way to look at it

[Don 944 LA]

The other night on the TV ( CNN ), they were talking about the US troops that opened fire on a car filled with a family. They blew apart the parents in the front seats and I believe that all the kids survived. The soldiers comforted the children untill someone could take control of them.

Anyway, I thought that it was kind of ODD that the military spokesman stated that the soldiers " Defended their post " and also " Comforted children "...
I guess it doesn't matter that the guys blew the parents of the kids to smithereens and created the situation of needing comfort.

not sure on the exact wording.. maybe someone can elaborate.

*** this is not an election comment.. please don't respond with " you lost, get over it " ***


Don

[928ram]

Don, I can see where you are coming from and I did not see the story myself, but I have to question who created the situation. What made the soldier shoot this particular car? I would assume that there was some sort of aggressive action by the driver that made the soldiers feel threathened.
What was the end result regarding the car? If the parents were radicals or the kids were kidnapped as a cover for a car full of explosives, those soldiers would be heroes for save the kids,no? It could have been confusion by the driver or maybe he thought it was a fake checkpoint designed to kidnap or kill.

[Don 944 LA]

from what I could tell, it was not a checkpoint, just a patrol

Family was just driving down road, car had nothing in it as far as a bomb

[kach22i]

From what I read, it was a check-point. The car did not respond to hand signals, shots in the air and so forth. The day before a car bomb went off at that check point or a near by one. The facts are under investigation, but once the kids wer found every assumed "driver panic " and innocent victims of war.

If the parents were radicals or the kids were kidnapped as a cover for a car full of explosives

This is a new one, perhaps it's been played out without any press. I can say someone bumped me in Detroit and tried to rob me - he had his little girl in the front seat! Guess he was teaching her" the trade".

He left after my sister started screaming POLICE, POLICE, also at the same time I motioned behind my back as if I had a suprise back there - confused the heck out of him. How he got his eyes to bug-out like that is a wonder.

[kumma]

So how do you know there is or isnt a bomb? Until you see your guts blown out of you? Shame on the soilders for comforting the children as everyone knows they should have killed them right?