Hello, West Coast. My apology for the delay in answering you, but I've had very little internet access over the last few days.
I can accept that the Apache attack on the specified target was legitimate if it was known that these were enemy combatants. Hopefully they weren't anti-Saddam militia.
But I do NOT accept that the deliberate murder of the injured man was in any way acceptable.
I'm still waiting for the precise reasons why that bumbling idiot Dubya and the slimy poodle Bliar went to war - as are millions of others. I'd thought that, if good Americans like Colin Powell had sound reasons to convince Dubya, then there must have been some clear and unequivocal hard intelligence. I haven't seen a shred of evidence to support that yet though.
As for your other views of what you perceive to be my 'un-American' views:
1. The 767 tanker scandal speaks for itself.
2. The Iraqi prisoner abuse is a scandal. But I'm certainly prepared to accept that it was the result of the acts of a few isolated sadists, not the outcome of a general culture.
I was also frankly appalled at the change of attitude at the multi-national base where I was regularly detached during my last couple of years in the military. The US forces had become deliberately provocative towards the Iraqis, itching to shoot at the first excuse. The attitude of some of the ANG F-16 units was beyond belief: "You guys better stir us up some action today or we'll be going home without having bombed anything". And that's a direct quote.
Yes, I have some negative views about the US. But plenty of positive ones as well.
And sign up to Kyoto!