By Jayme Evans ——Bio and Archives--April 12, 2010
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"Some of the people killed were journalists that were simply doing their jobs: putting their lives at risk in order to report on war. Iraq is a very dangerous place for journalists: from 2003- 2009, 139 journalists were killed while doing their work."Iraq is dangerous and these men knew that. The key phrase is "putting their lives at risk". This risk is compounded when you cavort with the enemy. They also claimed that Reuters "demanded an investigation". They did not say that the military complied with those demands and investigated, only that the military "concluded" the pilots had done nothing wrong, a blatant bias of omission and an attempt to portray the military as obstructing. Their overview of the incident was even more preposterous:
"The video from a helicopter gun-site, clearly shows the unprovoked slaying of a wounded Reuters employee and his rescuers. Two young children involved in the rescue were also seriously wounded."Men with weapons, firing on US soldiers provoked that response. And, what the hell were his "rescuers" doing arriving at the site of a military engagement in an unmarked, black vehicle with two children, also called "rescuers" by WikiLeaks? When you strip away all of the emotion, this was an entirely normal military engagement. Many of these people were confirmed to have weapons and our ground forces reported taking fire from that vicinity. Any innocent deaths are the unfortunate result of people being in the wrong place at the wrong time or bringing their kids along for a ride in a war zone. So what we're left with is zero evidence to support charges of murder, but a bunch of anti-war activists are still trying to frame US combat pilots because they object to their language or the "relaxed" way in which these professionals engaged their targets. Any sane person would be comforted to know that the pilots charged with protecting our ground forces aren't a bunch of stressed-out, trigger-happy maniacs, but this drives the committed, anti-war leftists like Medea Benjamin nuts. It just goes to show you how truly sick these people are.
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Jayme Evans is a veteran of the United States Navy, military analyst, conservative columnist and an advocate and voice for disabled and other veterans. He has served for many years as a Subject Matter Expert in systems software testing, and currently serves as a technical lead in that capacity. He has extensively studied amateur astronomy and metallurgy, as well as military and US history.