So what's going on here?, Video of US soldiers "taunting" kids with water in Iraq

[OrangeEmpire]

So there's a big hoopla all over the internet that these soldiers in the video are being cruel and taunting kids with water. Now there have been reports of Iraqi civilians doing without drinking water but we have no way of knowing if these kids are effected by that. Honestly I can't tell if these soldiers are just having fun and this is just more of a game for the kids or if it's really something much crueler like many seem to think. So what do you think?

YouTube - Iraqi Kid Runs For Water

Just to balance it out....

YouTube - soccer with iraqi kids

 

[OWB]

I think it's pretty obvious that they're taunting the kids.

 

[MG1968]

makes me glad the internet in it's current form and sites like youtube didn't exist when I was in the ToE during Operations Desert Shield/Storm.

Anything can be taken out of context.

 

[OWB]

Anything can be taken out of context.

I don't think anyone is taking anything out of context. It is what it is..

 

[MG1968]

really? in the video here, what happens in the moments before the video starts? we don't know that, and probably never will. those soldiers could have just dropped off 5 cases of water, or they could have just thrown a bunch of candy to the kids.
the point is that we don't know. and I'm not going to condemn these soldiers as being "cruel" until I know more.

 

[OWB]

Well whatever, but it is what it is.

 

[therealUT]

I agree that it is what it is. Is taunting a kid for a few minutes a war crime? Again, this is just bored soldiers finding stupid, sophmoric, yet harmless ways to entertain themselves.

 

[OWB]

I agree that it is what it is. Is taunting a kid for a few minutes a war crime?

No it's not. I never said it was cruel or anything. Cruel would be shooting him in the leg so he had no chance at all.

 

[CSpindizzy]

Yep...it is what it is. Stupid, sophmoric ways of turning a people against you. Great way to win the hearts and minds of the people right?

 

[duckman398686]

wow. thats really embarassing. it's like OWB said. It is what it is. It's people like this that are in the army that make America look bad. The soccer video was nice though.

 

[Pepe_Silvia]

I think it's pretty obvious that they're taunting the kids.

My heart bleeds.