Collateral Murder (merged)

tater · 04-08-10, 08:26 AM

CaptainHaplo hits it out of the park (again).

Catfish, if the people in question are armed—and the investigation showed significant weapons—then they were not civilians. Reporters (the civilians here) "embed" with combatants all the time. If a reporter is hit while patrolling with US forces—tough, that's the risk he decided to take to get the story. The converse is also true should he embed with other forces.

Murder—even in war—requires a specific intent. Civilians are accidentally killed all the time in war, and it is not murder. Civilians are killed in peacetime as the result of police action, and it's not murder, either, even here in the States.

04-08-10, 08:26 AM	#11
tater Navy Seal Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: New Mexico, USA Posts: 9,023 Downloads: 8 Uploads: 2	CaptainHaplo hits it out of the park (again). Catfish, if the people in question are armed—and the investigation showed significant weapons—then they were not civilians. Reporters (the civilians here) "embed" with combatants all the time. If a reporter is hit while patrolling with US forces—tough, that's the risk he decided to take to get the story. The converse is also true should he embed with other forces. Murder—even in war—requires a specific intent. Civilians are accidentally killed all the time in war, and it is not murder. Civilians are killed in peacetime as the result of police action, and it's not murder, either, even here in the States.