School boys 11-18 who were executed finally recieved an apology-FEB 24,2010.

[midnight]

December 26th, 2009: US-led forces, (whether soldiers or “security contractors” (mercenaries) is still uncertain), raided a home in Kunar Province and pulled eight young men out of their beds, handcuffed them, and gunned them down execution-style. The Pentagon initially reported that the victims had been running a bomb factory, although distraught villagers were willing to swear that the victims, youngsters, aged 11 – 18, were just seven normal schoolboys and one shepherd boy. Following courageous reporting by Jerome Starkey, the U.S. military carried out its own investigation and on February 24th, 2010, issued an apology, attesting the boys’ innocence.

http://www.afterdowningstreet.org/node/51102

I'm not sure if this follow up was posted here, but I do remember a post discussing the concern over the innocence of these young boys. Saddly to say, they were just students.

[ShortnFiery]

1. There are no words ...

:cry:

[file83]

18. Yes there are...."Ooops, our bad! Sorry!"

But somehow they just don't do the trick. Imagine if Obama had stuck to his campaign promise of withdrawing all those troops. Those kids may have lived.

[Solly Mack]

2. Good thing they were innocent...

might have gone bad for them otherwise...

[Jamastiene]

3. What have we become? n/t

[Echo In Light]

4. .

[Jamastiene]

5. So true.

Very sad, but very true.

[Cleita]

6. Huns?

Invade other countries for their resources and kill everything in the way while we are doing it. The difference is that we use tanks instead of horses.

[Romulox]

13. Tools of government with an unslakeable thirst for blood. nt

[Wickerman]

7. I'm sure that apology helps considerably

:eyes:

[RedCloud]

17. Yep. It's all fixed now.

[dickthegrouch]

8. So where are the prosecutions?

Retrieve the bullets and nail the murderer's asses to the wall.

[msongs]

9. this is why the current admin is not investigating bush war crimes -has its OWN war crimes now nt

[JoshieR]

10. Too little

too late, IMO.

Sad part is, aside from an apology, no one will ever be held accountable for this. Instead, the responsible parties will go on book tours and make loads of money speaking at random charities.

[Starry Messenger]

11. k

[Romulox]

12. There is NO SUCH THING as a war without brutality, inhumanity, and barbarism

You support war? You support this: "US-led forces, (whether soldiers or “security contractors” (mercenaries) is still uncertain), raided a home in Kunar Province and pulled eight young men out of their beds, handcuffed them, and gunned them down execution-style."

The solution is to bring our soldiers home. Now. Because more children will be killed otherwise.

[Jamastiene]

14. That's the truth.

War is hideous. This is going to continue as long as these wars continue.

[Eyerish]

15. K&R

I heard about this on KPFA a few days ago and I'm honestly surprised the US military even investigated, yet alone apologized.

[librechik]

16. as long as stories like this appear we will never regain our moral standing in the worl

:cry:

[Rex]

19. Gunning down innocent people execution style by a supposed

authority means there is no authority, only might makes right. Sad. Pathetic. Wrong. No doubt Dick Cheney appoves -

"Approve, hell I sold them the assault rifles!" Fuck you America!"

[kas125]

20. Thank you for posting this. Kathy Kelly is one of the most

amazing people I've ever met. Everyone should have the opportunity to listen to what she says.

[Papa Boule]

21. There's something else in the article worth noting

FTA:

There was press attention for this atrocity, and U.S. General Stanley McChrystal would issue a videotaped apology for his soldiers’ tragic mistake. Broad consensus among the press accepted this as a gracious gesture, with no consequences for the helicopter crew ever demanded or announced.

Whether having that gunship in the country was a mistake – or a crime – was never raised as a question.

And who would want it raised? Set amidst the horrors of an ongoing eight-year war, how many Americans think twice about these atrocities, hearing them on the news.

So I’m baffled to learn that in Germany, a western, relatively comfortable country, citizens raised a sustained protest when their leaders misled them regarding an atrocity that cost many dozens of civilian lives in Afghanistan.

It appears that Germans, knowing their country fell into brutal-ism before, are resisting going there again.

While America --- as its WW2 generation and its first-hand memories and resisting influence passes away --- is going there.