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Politics : Stop the War! -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Mike M who wrote (6232)	4/2/2003 9:46:02 AM
From: zonder	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 21614

People die and it isn't always somebody's fault. Agreed. Lightning strikes a guy playing football on a rainy day and it's nobody's fault, for example. Or an earthquake strikes all of a sudden, a crack forms in the ground, people fall and die, and that is nobody's fault, either. However, some people seem to think that this recent "friendly fire" incident where the American pilot attacked TWICE on a convoy of Brits that was marked with DAYGLO, flags, and stuff, IS the fault of the pilot who attacked. Among the people holding this opinion, as interviewed in the article I posted, are the soldiers who were ON THE GROUND that day. Amidst the grief, their anger could not be contained. All of D Squadron's vehicles are clearly marked, with fluorescent panels on the roofs, flags and other markings. It was something that the soldiers kept saying, over and over. "We spend all this money marking out our vehicles so this doesn't happen," one said. "If it was the heat of battle, shit happens. But it was clear daylight." Another said: "As far as I am concerned, those two pilots should be done for manslaughter. There's no way on the planet that they couldn't see two vehicles, that they couldn't see the dayglo panel on the top." "I remember seeing the front wagon which had been hit and I remember seeing the people getting out of that and running for cover. I thought there must be ground troops coming to get us. I went pegging it after them and jumped in a ditch. That was when the American plane came round to do a second swoop on us. guardian.co.uk So, if the people on the ground say there is a problem with these "friendly fire" phenomena, for the reasons they state, I find it rather pale that you should call other people who point at the same thing "ignorant".