Its interesting to see these opinions (and thats what they are) from people that werent there...I was. All I can say as that everything within our power was done to ensure that civilians were not harmed..that being said, this is a fucking war and shit happens. You can't drive in a car towards a military checkpoint at a high rate of speed and ignoring all signs to stop and not expect not to get shot..sad but thats just the way it is. It would be nice to conduct a war with zero civilian deaths but its not possible, especially a war such as this with the enemy wisely blending into the civilian populace the best they can and using tactics such as suicide car bombs.
White Phospherous has been in use for many many years and will continue to be. "Willy Peter" is not considered a chemical weapon under the geneva convention. Until the politicians decide to outlaw it, the USMC will use whatever weapnons we have at our disposal to get the job done, including W/P.
I guess it would be better if the bodies, many which were obviously combatants due to the fact they were wearing vests with ammo pouches, were blown to pieces by conventional bombs rather than burned up by willy Peter.
I found it funny how the video shows the civilians runniing with the white flag and then cuts to a shot of some dead bodies as if we are supposed to assume these were the same guys that were running with the flag although you don't actually see them getting shot.
The last portion of the video showing the pilots view from the Cobra Gunship is also heavily edited. At the beginning of the unedited version you see weapons (RPG's) being echanged before the gunner lights them up.
The video gets the "hell of war" point across but Slaughter in Falllujah? Please!