Two Veterans of Company Shown in Wikileaks’ Iraq Video Apologize
Monday, April 19, 2010 at 4:10 pm
In a message that Iraq Veterans Against the War is helping spread, two soldiers identified as serving with the company in Wikileaks’ Iraq video — the one showing Army close air support firing on Iraqi civilians, including two Reuters journalists – have written an open letter to Iraqis expressing their regret and seeking to make some form of reparation:
We are both soldiers who occupied your neighborhood for 14 months. Ethan McCord pulled your daughter and son from the van, and when doing so, saw the faces of his own children back home. Josh Stieber was in the same company but was not there that day, though he contributed to the your pain, and the pain of your community on many other occasions.
There is no bringing back all that was lost. What we seek is to learn from our mistakes and do everything we can to tell others of our experiences and how the people of the United States need to realize we have done and are doing to you and the people of your country. We humbly ask you what we can do to begin to repair the damage we caused.
Specialists Steiber and McCord continue, “Please accept our apology, our sorrow, our care, and our dedication to change from the inside out. We are doing what we can to speak out against the wars and military policies responsible for what happened to you and your loved ones.” A press statement explaining their letter is here.
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Comment posted April 20, 2010 @ 12:14 am
These two soldiers express great courage and integrity for realizing the evil act they committed and showing extreme remorse. We need many more like them.
Comment posted April 20, 2010 @ 1:34 am
I guess the apology is nice enough….but on what planet is that not a lesson that should have been learned BEFORE training one's guns on a civilian population? Were these lessons not learned – and learned well – in Vietnam (if not before)? I don't mean to sound like a b@sta@rd, but ffs – these guys were chuckling away as they killed people they could not even REMOTELY identify as combatants (leaving aside the fact that every American reading this would take part in any insurrection against an outside military invading our country). Laughing. Gleefully.
Hundreds of thousands of innocent people dead. But we're sorry.
Better than nothing. Better than most, probably. That thought in itself is thoroughly depressing.
Comment posted April 20, 2010 @ 1:58 am
idiots. brainless soldiers who went into this war naive and full of themselves, filled with simplistic moral pronouncements and self-righteousness. Listen to your betters (the left) next time, who knew lying, immorality and suberterfuge like this was waiting in the wings, because they're smarter than you.
Comment posted April 20, 2010 @ 3:01 am
Good- now track down the ones who pulled the triggers and the ones gave the orders/permission to shoot and put them all in Ft Leavenworth until they die. If you disagree, you haven't seen the footage.
Comment posted April 20, 2010 @ 4:09 am
Evil is ordinary.
Doing what they did was , “going with the flow”,the current attitude.
One commits an act and later realizes the depth of what was done.
Repenting is a beginning maybe we in america can learn something thru exposing this and save some lives in the future
Comment posted April 20, 2010 @ 5:04 am
Judeo-Fascists are STILL trying to push their “Islamo-Fascism” propaganda
Comment posted April 20, 2010 @ 5:35 am
This will develop as a “big” step for the USA or it will show the world that we are crazy killing Ceylons. Leave this occupation.
Comment posted April 20, 2010 @ 7:57 am
The American Military represents gutless, spineless, trailer trash with preferably a low IQ. The fly boys raining hell on innocent civilians are the worst and they are considered heroes.
Comment posted April 20, 2010 @ 11:29 am
I hope these and similar images haunt GW Bush every night as he martini's himself into a self loathing stupor.
Liberate Iraq indeed.
That is not the training these kids received.
Comment posted April 20, 2010 @ 11:37 am
Anybody thinking about using this as a reason WHY the Right should NOT be re-elected back in to office.
How many of the COWARDLY right have acknowledged or even recogniozed it, to me this is a GREAT piece to run on why the RIGHT should NOT be re-elected..
Comment posted April 20, 2010 @ 11:48 am
They just don't want to go to jail, that's all. They are probably not as caring as many think. Or they may have something against the 'officers' of the helicopter; those appache guys are completely full of themselves. Pilots in general are usually little-dicked assholes
Comment posted April 20, 2010 @ 12:51 pm
W's a sociopath, just like Cheney. They don't care.
Comment posted April 20, 2010 @ 12:52 pm
And Jew-haters are pushing theirs, I mean yours.
Comment posted April 20, 2010 @ 12:52 pm
I feel sorry for the soldiers involved because I doubt that they had the mental capacity to truly understand what a bunch of tools they are. War is hell.
Comment posted April 20, 2010 @ 1:13 pm
That's why we need a constitutional amendment.
If there's a war, a draft automatically kicks in and applies to every child of every family, no excuses, no getting out of it. Another could make these types of videos and records available immediately, no controlling the press in war zones. They'd potentially be sending their own children to do their bidding and the world can watch as their mistake costs the life of their little prodigy.
That would make these types think twice next time; restore honor to the office, you might say.
Comment posted April 20, 2010 @ 2:27 pm
Are you kidding? These guys are like the Ghandis of the American military. Just when you thought the capacity for shame had entirely vanished. They weren't the shooters apparently, they were the ones who cleaned up their handiwork and felt the feelings their comrades should have been feeling, it seems. No doubt the shooters are still snickering about the whole thing (coming soon to your local police station!).
Comment posted April 20, 2010 @ 3:52 pm
This is not a RIGHT or LEFT issue. It is the political elite in this country who do whatever they wish. Our tax dollars at work…..oh yeah… and they hate us for our Freedoms.
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