wrong

the taliban show there 5 year old kids how to make and use IED's and how to use an AK and RPG there are kids in that country that are placing and killing there own people and the armed forces and to call our troops kid killers is disguisting and im sickened to think you people are australian to say that

Facts or Ratings? (Cont.)

allows the viewer to make judgments according to these facts. This story was biased, sloppy, and structured more like a dodgy current affairs program than a hard hitting documentary on a real issue. The reporter did not speak articulately or with any degree of eloquence, and her questions were poorly structured and obtuse. This kind of an issue needs a reporter with a desire for facts, not ratings.

Facts or Ratings?

This was an incredibly low standard of journalism, and I expect more from the SBS. I watched this story under the impression that I would be offered a well researched and evenly covered presentation of facts and reality. This was an appalling attempt at journalism. While I am personally against the presence of Australian troops in Afghanistan and am horrified by the deaths of civilians and the role of the ADF in these incidences, I appreciate journalism that presents the facts of both sides, and

Disappointed

no balance, lack of investigation and belligerent motives

A poor job done

I reckon the reporter has done the credibility of her trade a disservice here. ADF internal investigations like this are certainly fundamentally wrong, but she applied a very "Today Tonight" approach to what is a serious and complex story. I'd appreciate more views from experts and witnesses in the mix, and less of you interdicting when those experts try to provide explanations.

Thanks Sophie

This was an excellent report, the best piece of journalism I saw for quite a long time. In the midst of so much nationalistic 'we Aussies can never do wrong' chest-thumping propaganda surrounding the war in Afghanistan (some of which is reflected here on these forums), its refreshing to see someone actually talk to ordinary Afghani people and ask the tough questions of our supposedly benign and well-meaning military establishment.

Afghans are not criminals

98% of the Afghan refugees get citizenship here for the simple reason they are fleeing the hell we have helped to create. Tiim you are one stupid man.

been to the most dangerous places my @ss

sophie mcneill it says that shes been to the most dangerous places in the world what a crock the only thing that i seen her do was talk to some civilians in a secure zone all the other fotage was from soldiers reporters go over there stay in basses and only go out under heavy guard and when there is no direct threat if she wanted to get the story right she would have gone out with those diggers and been in the fire fights and she how she could handle it