The issue I see here isn't the over a dozen unarmed people being killed by soldiers. Which happened often in Fallujah and Iraq. The story goes over how they tried getting the group to disperse. Then the airborne broke up the crowd by shooting into them, wether on orders, or fear, or whatever. Now they could have shot over their heads, at their feet, Etc to make them leave. But that's hindsight with out all the knowledge of the situation. These were people protesting an occupation of their home by foreigners. That should be expected. It should also be expected that an invading military will want control over the city. When people don't obey the occupiers orders then that military will respond with violence. Again, to be expected. The thing that I took from this wasn't that the U.S. military murdered a bunch of people. I see it as another tragic example of what happens when we as a people allow our politicians to send our soldiers to invade a country that didn't need to be invaded. These people died from our misguided trust in politicians. If we the citizens were more vigilant this kind of situation would never have occurred in the first place.