Saturday, June 25, 2011

Wiki-Leaks Gets it Wrong, Again

Wiki-Leaks is absolutely wrong on this chopper attack on so-called "civilians."
  1. It was NOT a camera that terrorist was carrying. Cameras are NOT long, tube-like instruments that are placed on the ground for assembly.
  2. You don't stand behind a building for protection, if you are going to film a U.S. Army chopper.
  3. Why do you place it on your shoulder, aim it toward the gunship, then pull back when you see that your timing was off, and can't get off a good shot?
  4. You don't hug close to the building and aim the "camera" at the chopper, then see the chopper has circled beyond the wall you are hiding behind, and realize you can't get a good shot without stepping way from the wall and exposing yourself to the chopper's defenses and cameras.
  5. Why are your buddies looking over the wall at the chopper, telling you something while watching the chopper come back around toward you?
  6. Also, when the chopper circles around to where you're standing, why have you collapsed the long, tube-like instrument - the "camera" - placed it back in its shoulder-case, with all your buddies around you, blocking our view of the "camera" with their bodies?
  7. Why do you nonchalantly begin to walk away, as though you'd done nothing with that "camera"? Where's your PRESS sign?
  8. Additionally, why are they caught lead-footed, as the gunfire reaches them, and you tear-off running away, dropping the "camera" like it were a hot-potato?
  9. If you were a journalist, wouldn't the "camera" be the one thing that would save your hide? Wouldn't you want to film this "massacre?" Why do you run like hell, after dropping the "camera"?
  10. If you were innocent, why didn't you signal your innocent intentions to the chopper?
  11. And those guys rushing in the van to pick you up, could they have left the children home, or at a friend's house? There were no women at home in burkas to babysit the children?
  12. You had to bring the children to the battle?
  13. This whole Wiki-Leaks thing stinks of weenies trying to make a name for themselves.