{"id":23108,"date":"2011-04-27T23:54:58","date_gmt":"2011-04-28T03:54:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=23108"},"modified":"2011-04-27T23:56:22","modified_gmt":"2011-04-28T03:56:22","slug":"say-what-mccord","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=23108","title":{"rendered":"Say what McCord?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Recently a short film was released for a film festival in New York called \u201cIncident in New Baghdad.\u201d <\/a> A short film about \u201cCollateral Murder\u201d video. While I have huge doubts when the producer, James Spione<\/a> says that this is not a anti-military film. But what gets my attention is a sudden change in tone from Ethan McCord according to a article by military.com<\/a>. The same one that has been reported about here many time. <\/a><\/p>\n

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After the video was released in April of 2010, McCord \u2013 by then out of the Army \u2013 wrote a public letter of apology to those injured or who lost family members in the attack. McCord told Military.com at the time that the fault lay more with loose rules of engagement<\/a> than with the Soldiers.<\/p>\n

He also criticized the video because it was presented out of context and failed to show what was happening elsewhere on the ground that might explain why the Apache crew responded as it did.<\/strong><\/p>\n

“I was upset when the \u2026 video came out. I felt they [Wikileaks] were attacking the wrong people,” he told Military.com. McCord was assigned to Bravo Company, 2nd Battalion, 16th Regiment. The Apaches belonged to the 227th Aviation Regiment.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Really that is totally different from what you said here.<\/a><\/p>\n

\nAsked if the Collateral Damage video put soldiers in harms way, (as the Pentagon claimed), without hesitation, McCord said, “That video release did not put anyone in harm\u2019s way.”<\/strong><\/p>\n

McCord attended the VFP Convention to give the video context:<\/p>\n

“What that video shows is not special in any way because it shows a daily occurrence in Iraq.<\/p>\n

“We\u2019re killing innocent people daily in Iraq.<\/p>\n

“Killing children daily.<\/p>\n

“Women daily<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

You mean innocent people with RPGs?<\/p>\n

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While the video released by Wikileaks left open the question of whether or not the only \u201cweapon\u201d present was a camera carried by a Reuters photographer, the film documents that an AK-47 and an RPG were found at the scene of the initial attack \u2013 although Spione is quick to point out that the Apache crew did spot actual weapons before they fired onto the street from the skies above.<\/p>\n

In an interview in the movie, McCord also recalls seeing an RPG near the bodies when he reached the scene.
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\n\u201cI enlarged the part [of the video] where you can see the weapons,\u201d Spione said. Still photos taken by Soldiers at the time also show the weapons, he said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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