Killing Innocent civilians can not be acceptable in military standards at least not in the way the soldier described it.
Collateral damage is another thing that's some what exceptable because its war
I mean its hard to train an 18yr old to kill kill kill and expect him to shut it on and off like a light switch, i would give the kid 5 years in prison for the murder and call it a day
The problem is the if you think you kill somebody who looked like a threat to you, you open the jacket he is wearing and you find no weapons thats when
you get scared.
Check out the other video I just posted on my page...
US Soldiers hunting down a reported possible VBIED (vehicle born IED) now if you have ever seen one of these go off - they are HUGE!!!
Look at the soldiers, they suround him tell the traffic to move on but dont shoot the driver - they even have somebody to talk to the driver in arabic to get out.
here comes the kicker- the guy doesn't come out!!!! he actually rolls the vehicle closer to the us soldiers!!!!
Now picture yourself and you are convincend the guy has a truck full of artillery shells... and he ROLLS forward... You shoot that guy!!!
however these guys did NOT shoot him, they send warning shots, get him out and he was actually innocent.
Now if they would have shoot him, it would have been all over the news - WITHOUT the part were they give him penty of chances to get out of course.
Thats what these guys are scared of.
http://www.apacheclips.com/media/22726/VOTD_Chase_of_suspected_VBIED/