What is your opinion of the Blackwater X-Marines that wasted 17 Iraqi Villagers at an intersection~?

It'll come out during the examination of the witnesses. If they were unprovoked by the civilians they shot, then they deserve to be punished. They were not there as soldiers. Why would civilians in those cars be shooting at them while their children were riding along? If insurgents were shooting at them, they should have been very careful about in which direction they returned fire. I don't think they meant to kill those people, but they were careless in their shooting, it's not enough to say "oh well, that's war", you cant just shoot people to death and blame it on the fact that someone shot at you at some point. Those guys were decorated vets not amateurs. While I am grateful to all veterans, I don't think they nor active troops should be excused from the killing of innocent unarmed civilians.