That's all I'm saying Gunny, is that depending on the POV, it was right or wrong. THis is the same concept that can be applied to the hundreds of thousands of civilians killed in WWII by Allied planes as well as Allied soldiers, but since it was/is viewed a necessary and good war by most people, it seems to be more acceptable.
Back then we didn't get the details of individual acts. Find individual atrocities, and you might have a point. By the way, just that civilians are killed doesn't make it a massacre or an atrocity. But there has been NO evidence that the Blackwater guards were fired on.
Larkinn seems to go to far and assume that I'm making excuses for them and wants to wrongfully compare this to the VT massacre. I don't agree with a massacre any more than Larkinn does, but I do recognize that it's a POV conflict.
Yeah, whether you want to apologize for murderers or not.
Larkinn, until you've been in warzone, don't pretend that you would do everything perfect and to the "T". Many good men and women have done things in combat for which they regret, (wheter intentional or unintentional). It's the most stressful situation that any human being can be placed under. I'm not saying that it's ok that they may have done this intentionally, but I'm not going to pass judgement on them as if I was there and saw the whole thing.
The Iraqi government issued a report finding Blackwater responsible for massacreing 17 Iraqi civilians.
You think maybe, just maybe, the Iraqis have been in a war zone?
As far as your reference to the other thread, it seems like you're the only one still caught up on racial issues......
And you've also twisted my words....
I didn't say that racism didn't exist, but I believe that you categorize many natural aspects of life under the banner of racism when you shouldn't. You're not racist for acknowledging the fact that Mexicans like Mexican Food.
Nice strawman while simultaneously claiming I twisted your words. I said that you claimed it wasn't prevalent, not that it didn't exist.