REPSOriginally Posted by 01ej25
I have not seen the video, but even if the dog did something terribile like attack someone, theres really no excuse to kill it in an inhumane manner. I love animals but I also eat meat, because I know that animals killed for food are killed in a somewhat humane manner. They certainly don't get their heads bashed in with bricks and posted up on youtube.
To those who say its "just a dog," as I have previously stated violence toward animals is a major indicator of the potential for violence to humans. These guys might be only a few steps away from shooting up a Post Office.
And speaking of the press, I've read about and spoken with press personnel who have been in Vietnam, Gulf War 1, and Iraq. The way the Army manages press personnel in Gulf War 1 was very restricted, which is why nearly all the reporting was favorable. In a policy called Annex Foxtrot, journalists were escorted by military personnel at all times and were kept away from the front lines. After negative response from critics of Annex Foxtrot, the military decided on the less restrictive policy of embedding. While it is better than Annex Foxtrot, embedding has the journalists depending on the military for transportation, so the journalists go where the military wants them to go. And the journalists are told what information they can and cannot relaese. Journalist who publish photographs that are not "approved" risk having the Army pull their credentials.
But the flipside to that is that the troops have greater access to cameras/video/etc. And they also have youtube, blogs, etc. So in cases such as this we get uncensored raw footage directly from the field.
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