Re:Obama Commutes Bulk of Chelsea Manning’s Sentence
by cm2187 on Tuesday January 17, 2017 @05:01PM
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As far as I know they have mistaken a TV crew for some armed people. Big deal. This sort of fuckups happen all the time in any war. That's called "collateral damage". If you don't want any you can't shoot on people from a helicopter 300m away from your target, through a low res B&W video. In fact there are very few things any army could do if we wanted to have zero collateral damage. When congress authorizes a war, the reality is that they authorize the fact that these things may happen.
I'm not pro-Irak war, quite the contrary. But the fact that civilians have been killed isn't exactly a hidden secret that was uncovered by the leaks
> Maybe don't form strong opinions when you don't have the slightest clue what the facts are.
This sort of insults has nothing to do on HN
Re:Obama Commutes Bulk of Chelsea Manning’s Sentence
by mason240 on Tuesday January 17, 2017 @04:56PM
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Manning had no knowledge of the video. It happened to be in the blind data dump.
Re:Obama Commutes Bulk of Chelsea Manning’s Sentence
by hendersoon on Tuesday January 17, 2017 @05:48PM
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That is not true, and is easily verifiable by reading Chelsea's chat logs with Adrian Lamo.
So you've never actually watched (or read about) the Collateral Murder video, huh? It's a helicopter crew killing people with guns, not bombs. And they kill exactly who they intend to.
Maybe don't form strong opinions when you don't have the slightest clue what the facts are.