What a bunch of crap...watch the original version, linked above on youtube, before viewing the edited version.
The original version contains the entire audio of the Apache pilots with their HQ.
The edited version conveniently removes the opening seconds of the video, where one of these "farmers" quite obviously and rather suspiciously plants something on the side of the road.
The Apache pilots' intial assessment is that the "farmer" dropped a weapon of some kind along the road...they then WAIT for clearance to engage...if you listen to the dialogue between the pilots and HQ, the pilots do not seem overly eager to engage...in fact, the exchange seems to indicate that both the pilots and HQ want to ensure this is in fact a viable military target.
Also, the alleged teenage boy who was waving a cloth to stop the Apache attack...if you watch the full version, not the edited version, he is quite frantically and clearly removing the casing off whatever it was the first "farmer" dropped in the field...you know, like the casing on an RPG or similar weapon.
Also, although the footage is bright, the time stamp clearly shows that this encounter happened after night fall...I don't know many farmers who plow fields at night with no illumination to guide them.
Sure mistakes are made in times of war, but what this footage demonstrates is that our soldiers are trained to exercise patience, discretion and caution before engaging targets...as opposed to these insurgent knuckleheads, who have repeatedly demonstrated a lack of respect for innocent human life. There is a distinction.
