Collateral Murder Has Nearly 2,800,000 Views on YouTube

[tekisui]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5rXPrfnU3G0&feature=player_embedded

views: 2,799,397

Has it been noticed on the M$M teevee, other than Rachel Maddow?

[Dark]

1. Sigh.

Google it in news. >750 hits

Yes, it has been noticed. Since it came out.

On edit: couldn't get link to work.

[tekisui]

4. On the teevee?

That was my question. A link to google news doesn't answer that.

[The_Commonist]

2. Good.

I hope it gets 10x that before the week is over.

[Duer 157099]

3. And the moral of the story is: M$M is irrelevent

(well, mostly anyway)

[Mojeoux]

5. The Rescue Van? Why Was it a Target??

The camera/gun shit is one thing, but is it SOP to attack those rescuing the wounded?

[tekisui]

6. It certainly appears that way.

Everything in the audio sounded routine and business-as-usual.

[backscatter712]

9. Yeah, you could almost justify the initial attack...

Through that fuzzy gun camera video, it's hard to tell the difference between rifles and cameras.

But the attack on the van was waaaaay out of line. Nobody in the van was armed, all they were doing was picking up the wounded.

[wtmusic]

12. They're not even close to being justified for any part of it

May our brave, triggerhappy, yahoo pricks rot in hell.

[backscatter712]

14. Yeah, I'm not justifying this.

The "color commentary" by the Apache pilots and gunners was disgusting.

Still, it's one thing if you think they might shoot back, but there was no way that the folks in the van were going to shoot back - they were just trying to collect wounded and get out of dodge.

[wtmusic]

7. I wish I hadn't seen that.

[L0oniX]

8. This is normal everyday operations people.

Herd that said on Democracy Now today.

[tekisui]

10. That is what I hope this video will make people realize.

This is day in/day out for 7 years in Iraq. 9 years in Afghanistan.

[lame54]

11. Death sells

[chill_wind]

13. That's a lot of people who will know what the NYT did.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=389&topic_id=8100590&mesg_id=8100590

[flvegan]

15. Tonight here, local Fox ran a story about a firefight between our troops

and alleged insurgents. It really felt like it was TRYING to bury the obvious with the opposite.

[Hissyspit]

16. NPR covered it during All Things Considered.

[Oregone]

17. As long as the Iraqis don't see it, were good to go

Im sure bombing raids over their technological infrastructure have been conducted since its posting on YouTube

If that fails, they will consider shooting every person (or insurgent) with internet access to promote peace