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To: Broken_Clock who wrote (892726)	10/9/2015 2:34:24 PM
From: TimF	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1576251

I doubt very much he talked to the people doing the bombing or directing it. "US forces" is a much smaller group then "Americans", but its still big enough to say "US forces" don't know anything, people in them do. The fact that someone was informed doesn't mean that he believed what he was informed about, or that he passed it along, or that he passed it to the correct person, or that the correct person got it passed along to the people actually doing the bombing in a timely manner. Its quite likely this was a screw up. Deadly screwups happen in war all the time, killing innocent civilians, allied forces, and the forces committing the screw up. In the Gulf war such screwups killed more Americans then Iraqi soldiers did. In more difficult wars the percentage is lower, but the absolute level of screwups is higher. Its quite believable that this was such a screw up. Could it have been a war crime? Yes its possible, but so far there is no evidence of it, or evidence of motivation for it.