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Tuesday, February 6, 2007 12:00 AM

Friendly fire incident

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Tuesday, February 6, 2007 10:24 AM

Big surprise

A few more lives ruined - the quick and the dead - to soothe the collective Bush-Cheney ego. And congress dithers on.

As that poor young airman so elequently put it: "Shit fucking damn."

Tuesday, February 6, 2007 01:52 PM

Sounds like it was the ground controller's fault

Manila Hotel told them there were no friendlies there...

Tuesday, February 6, 2007 03:11 PM

It Is Entirely Correct That These Pilots Were Not Charged

POPOV35 repeatedly reported to his controller, MANILLA13, that he suspected the convoy was friendly, and he was repeatedly told that there were no friendlies in the area. Then right after he takes his shots it's "Whoops! Friendlies in the area!" That was undoubtedly after the Brits on the ground got on the horn screaming bloody murder. What a cluster-fuck.

Tuesday, February 6, 2007 07:32 PM

nice to know

that something can upset our finely tuned killing machines. It's not hard to find video of our boys raining fire from on high with plenty of collateral damage -- and cheering it on over the radio.

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