Reply #177: Tactics, tactics, tactics...

[HardWorkingDem]

We simply do not know enough about this video to make conclusions. For example, if you were in the vehicle and believed the vehicle you just shot might be full of explosives, would you go back and check it out if you were able to disable it?

These people are in a guerrilla war where anything is possible. Iraqi children have been known to throw potatoes off of roofs because they resemble hand grenades and after Americans initially duck and then raise, they are shot at by Iraqi fighters.

The Iraqi fighters will send one person in an alley to fire rounds at passing motorists so when the passing motorists turn their attention to the lone gunman, the motorists will be attacked from the other side.

My points are that we here in America do not know what is going and a short, edited video tape can't tell us that. We must have more information before rendering judgment.

I am really disappointed in those here who seem to want to ignore finding all the facts in this case while screaming for the rights of people like Padilla (Don't get me wrong - I find the treatment of his due process rights to be atrocious. NO ONE should be denied due process).

Just because we disagree with something or it does not fit in our political persuasion does not mean it is okay for us to forgo due process. And I think this is a difference between us and the Rethugs.