Seeing as you agree shooting kids is legit under certain circumstances Teribus, what about the decision the commander on the ground made NOT to medivac those kids to the nearest aid post but simply send them to an Iraqi hospital already struggling with the number of casualties in it's wards? Do you think this sort of complete abdication of responsibility to the people they're supposed to be 'liberating' is helping win hearts and minds?

"Where the father was irresponsible was in driving his children into a situation that at the time was far from clear and what turned out to be the middle of an ongoing fire-fight. I would not have done it, as a parent, love for my children would dictate that my duty and sole responsibility lay in ensuring that they were safe."

This might be difficult for you to believe, but there is are things as humanity and compassion and this man was demonstrating those in trying to help an unarmed, wounded man. At no time did any of the people in this video look towards the helicopter. One assumes its so far away they can't see or hear it, or it seems to distant to be a threat and therefore it's entirely probable the chap in the van had no idea it was even there.