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and while they could have added that fact in, it wouldn't really matter with regards to the discussion of the ROE since the pilots had no idea it was a father and small children.
What happened was a tragic accident, perhaps a result of gross negligence and bad decision making, but to try to make it out to be cold blooded murder is just an emotinal kneejerk reaction that ignores reality. I was interested in how the ROE has changed since then, since the general said that that could not happen now with our current ROE. All that was required to open fire in that situation was the guy in the chopper getting permission from some guy who couldn't even see what was going on down there. He's just being told there are insurgents with AK-47s and RPGs up ahead, so of course he will give permission to fire.
Ratigan showed the van and reporters getting shot up, if that's any consolation to you.
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