Verbosities

If you are in the military, you apparently are a liar. You are part of the grand scheme to continue to kill children at will, call anyone you want a terrorist and shoot them, and can make up stories to cover your tracks.

That is what some people care to believe. I am not sure Major Chris Belcher would like to be called a liar. Head says:

A "coalition spokesman" wholly smacks of PR rep, even though you obviously view
such mouthpieces as bastions of truth and integrity. Perhaps you don’t think
it’s possible that a Major’s job would be PR spin, or that the military in
general engages in that sort of thing.

Yes, I am willing to believe what the Major says. I believe those who serve in the military are of the utmost honor. I know that if they are not, the military deals with them. We have learned that from Abu Graib and Haditha.

But apparently it is not just Major Belcher that is part of the cover up to kill children. If we read the story as reported by the AP, instead of Reuters, we get some more information:

In an operation backed by Afghan troops, jets on Sunday targeted a compound
that also contained a mosque and a madrassa, or Islamic school, in the Zarghun
Shah district of Paktika province. Early reports indicated seven children at the
madrassa and “several militants” were killed, and two militants detained, the
statement said.
Coalition troops had “surveillance on the compound all day
and saw no indications there were children inside the building,” said Maj. Chris
Belcher, a coalition spokesman. He accused the militants of not letting the
children leave the compound that was targeted.
“If we knew that there were children inside the building, there was no way
that that air strike would have occurred,” said Sgt. 1st Class Dean Welch,
another coalition spokesman.

I guess not only is Sgt. 1st Class Dean Welch part of the "media spin", but all of those Afghan troops were involved as well. Yes. Afghan troops. We are to believe that they would not stop Afghan kids from being killed.

If we apply logic to the situation, who do you think is most likely to be surveiling the compound on the ground? Americans or Afghans?

Is it possible that they knew this place was harboring enemy combatants as they had been told? Is it possible that they did have a good count of how many kids may be attending the school and kept a count of them arriving and leaving over a number of days and thus could ascertain that there were no children in the building? Is it possible that the building was no longer being used as a madrassa, that the terrorists had forced the kids out, and thus was technically not a school? One can go on and on playing that game.

So instead of making accusations that you cannot back up, stop trying to smear the names of those who have to live with this tragedy. Put aside your bias. Accidents do happen. What happens is sometimes what really happens. Everything is not a coverup.