They were taken out of houses, some handcuffed, and were

[mmonk]

shot dead. If they were taken out of the houses by either soldiers or contractors, etc., and some were handcuffed, clearly the threat if real, was removed. However, they were killed on the spot. This is in response to all the is killing children justified or not threads. Was guilt established or was this judge, jury and hangman on the spot? Does that enter into it? Ot is all sense of humanity and or proportion now lost? Shall we give it the 'ol war is hell excuse?

[dhpgetsit]

1. Way to radicalize the world against US!

Here comes another generation of jihad against the US.

[bigtree]

2. the threat

. . . the immediate 'threat' may well have been removed, but the real threat in these raids and operations is the blowback. These types of war crimes just deepen the animosity which has generated so much of the resistant violence and serve to perpetuate the cycle of devastating attacks and reprisals.

[havocmom]

9. creating generations of profit for the likes of Blackwater, KBR, Cheney

and all their puppets. They hate America, except as a beard for their war profiteering.

[Mari333]

3. there is no excuse.

there should be 24 news coverage of these children and what happened to them on TV. the people of the USA need to see what we are doing, and have been doing for a decade..and what we continue to do .
in the name of corporate money.

[FreakinDJ]

5. The silence from the Military is deafening

Nato’s International Security Assistance Force said that there was “no direct evidence to substantiate” Mr Wafa’s claims that unarmed civilians were harmed in what it described as a “joint coalition and Afghan security force” operation.

“As the joint assault force entered the village they came under fire from several buildings and in returning fire killed nine individuals,” he said.
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/Afghanistan/article6971638.ece

[mmonk]

13. Seems like it would be easy to swat down if false.

There is also the chance the Karzai government is trying to gain local sympathy and the investigation is fraudulent. I guess another possibility that the answer given is a cover. Are there any corroborating reports?

[TBF]

14. Have been doing for a decade? Only if it's a very long decade...

This goes back to the founding of this country and the way we treated the native americans. Killing children is nothing new in the USA.

[Edweird]

4. Children or not, it is a war crime to execute prisoners.

[housewolf]

6. What incident are you talking about? Too much missing information

This could potentially relate to any sort incident anywhere in the world... Iran, perhaps? China? Tibet? Afghanistan? Am I supposed to infer from this that you are talking about American soldiers? How would I know that from the information you provided?

More info, please....

[EFerrari]

7. Here:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=389&topic_id=7381479&mesg_id=7381479

[jwirr]

8. There is nothing more frightening than hearing about this kind of

abusive treatment of children. We are building hatred all over the world with actions like this. Doesn't the military have any understanding of the term blowback?

In another post the OP was talking about uniting the teabaggers and liberals. That is scary but not nearly as scary as the day the ME has had enough and all the Arab nations unite to throw our sorry ass out the door.

[tnlefty]

11. Doesn't the CIC?

I thought that I was voting for a man who had integrity and decency enough that this sort of shit would stop.

[ThatsMyBarack]

10. WAR....

Stops a beating heart!

[spanone]

12. established guilt still means nothing...soldiers/mercenaries are not executioners