When Saving Private Ryan came out, it was momentarily controversial, because a couple of times in the movie, Axis soldiers trying to surrender got shot.
All the WWII veterans said, “Yeah, that happened. It was a war. Deal with it. The movie was great.”
So in Iraq, an enemy soldier/insurgent/terrorist/dude playing dead got shot.
Yeah, that happens. Was the the soldier who shot him justified? Yes. Was the other guy justified in playing possum? Yes. Was it a “regrettable incident”? Yes.
It’s war guys. Get over it. Yes, we are trying to make Iraq a democracy. But soldiers are soldiers and from the cheap seats here, I think the enemy soldier was justified in trying to be tricky, and our guy was justified in shooting him. I think that’s one of the reasons that the military holds its own trials. Civilians just don’t understand.
If this is the worse thing that happens in Fallujah, its a good thing! In fact, I think that this proves the value of embedding. While its true this one guy will get some flack, the whole embedding thing has prevented any unfounded allegations from being published. The last time there was heavy action in Iraq and we didn’t have embeds, there were lots of “shooting at ambulances” stories. Now I see that the embeds are showing footage of people shooting from mosques.
The whole tone of the press coverage is 1000 times better with the embeds. Hooray for the embeds!
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