Why do American soldiers get scrutinized for an occasional civilian death when the insurgents kill civilians?

Question

The insurgents' main purpose it seems is to kill as many 'infidels' as possible, and it really doesn't matter if there are civilians and innocent people involved. So why is there such a double standard when an American soldier accidentally kills a civilian?

Answer 1

To give you a simple answer......................We are the good guys and the insurgents are the bad guys. Good guys are held to a higher standard.

Answer 2

How is it accidental when there's plenty of documented evidence of US Marines executing entire families in cold blood, like 7 shots to a 10 year old girls head?
Simply because they were the closest house to where their buddy got killed, and other weak excuses.

Not even the worst of insurgents would do that to any child. If they did, it'd be shown everywhere on TV worldwide instead of these military cover-ups that are slowly seeping out like pus-filled sores.

We're talking about multiple cases of cold blooded gangland execution style murders of entire families, who thought they were safely locked in their own homes.

Read some of the other deeds of US Marines and what they've done with women and children over there in the land they're not welcome in because they don't respect life.

Type 'Haditha' into any search engine and see for yourself.

You'll soon realise that these 'insurgents' are normal family men protecting their wives, daughters and homes from the barbarians that have come to rape and pillage their land.
It ain't just a few executions, unless you're talking about a few 100.

Beating Iraqi's to death in US-Iraq prisons should be scutinised, and not let off with 2~5 year jail terms handed out by the military to it's own offenders.
What possible threat were each of the (un-charged) naked unarmed prisoners (against fully armed guards) that they got beaten to death?

Answer 3

It is just another way for the liberals to attack the war.In combat, slit second decisions are made. Some are wrong. I for one would think that anyone in a house across the street from where a bomb was planted and where it killed several people would have some indication as to how and who planted it. They could have warned the convoy. Were they combatants? I would say probably. Civilians Yes. Dangerous Yes. enemy yes.

Answer 4

We are not held to the standards of the insurgents, we are suppose to have a much higher standard. There is suppose to be a moral imperative to our actions. Killing in the name of spreading freedom not just because we had a bad day. If the killing was just for the excitement then we should be held accountable.

Answer 5

Thank the left wing loonies in the USA. The TV and print media are interested in selling advertising. They report bad news because it sells. Lots of people who work in media are liberals; anti war at any cost, anti George Bush, anti conservative.
There are journalists who "create" news by taking something controversial, bad or unfavorable, misrepresenting it, blowing it out of proportion, manufacturing "truths" and doing whatever they can to stir up interest.
Can you ever imagine a good military news story as the headline in the New York Times such as: "GI saves life of five-year-old Iraqi girl who was playing with a land mine." It will never happen.

Answer 6

American military personnel are held to a much higher standard than the personnel of virtually any other military organization in the world. Not only can they be Court Martialed for disobeying a lawful order, they can be Court Martialed for OBEYING an UNlawful order.

Answer 7

Because Islam is not the enemy...they are merely misunderstood. It was all a big misunderstanding on 9/11; merely an accident.

When they cut innocent peoples heads off...merely an accident; a "slip of the knife."

Its years of pent-up "Muslim rage." You see we have not repented fast enough, nor accepted Islam fast enough. Therefore, we are infidels...dogs to be punished for not bending to our knees.

Sadly, idiotic liberal Americans buy into this bullcrap. Oh well, they may see the light when its their turn to face the executioner...er...oppressed religious reformer/freedom fighter.

Answer 8

Because we as American Soldiers set the standard. THEY are just animals.

Answer 9

The same reasons Goebbels in WWII paraded the ruins of Dresden before the world press, to try and take the moral high ground, but most saw through his propaganda.....

Answer 10

Because once people find something they not not agree with "Iraq War" they will find any little thing about it they can complain about. no matter how small or large it is