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<div style='font: 12pt ; text-align: left; '><b>Link:</b> <a href="http://www.canada.com/national/features ... D">British Tornado shot down by Patriot</a>

Sometimes I wish things I think about didn't come true. With the technology the coalition forces have, shit like this should be avoidable.</div>

<div style='font: 11pt "EngraversGothic BT", "Copperplate Gothic Light"; text-align: left; '>As I understand it, the friendly-foe transponder wasn't functioning properly on the helicoptor.</div>

<div style='font: 12pt ; text-align: left; '>BTW, the Thunderbolt is a Jet, but IFF working or not it's unnacceptable.</div>

<div style='font: 9pt ; text-align: left; '>Looks like Americans like to kill their allies on the battlefield</div>

<div style='font: 9pt ; text-align: left; '>Looks like Americans like to kill their allies on the battlefield - us in Afghanistan and the English in Iraq.</div>

<div style='font: bold 12pt Arial; text-align: left; '>No matter how advanced technology gets, you can never completely remove human or computer error...</div>

<div style='font: bold 12pt Arial; text-align: left; '>Was that supposed to be funny, or just ignorant? I'd think someone with a military background would better understand what can happen on the battlefield...or do you have so little respect for Americans that you think our soldiers would do this on purpose?</div>

<div style='font: 9pt ; text-align: left; '>and me being of military background allows me to realize how much protocol these dumbfucks didnt adhere to, and that they obviously werent trained well because the Canadians were using small arms, nothing big enough to even hit their planes.

"Battlefield Confusion" 5 miles from base.... on a DESIGNATED training facility....Canadians told the Americans they were out there a week in advance, all pilots were briefed that they were out there, and he was told not to fire. hmmmmm, does this sound like a soldier to you?</div>

<div style='font: 11pt "EngraversGothic BT", "Copperplate Gothic Light"; text-align: left; '>Hmmm...where are these transcripts?</div>

<div style='font: 14pt "Sans Serif"; text-align: justify; padding: 0% 15% 0% 15%; '>Is stupid a choice?</div>

<div style='font: bold 12pt Arial; text-align: left; '>...no denying that guy fucked up, but you haven't answered your implication that it was a purposeful act...weapons are made to kill people, and nobody is fucking perfect...put the two together and this will happen, as it always has whenever there is military conflict...

...do you think they laughed about it after?

...do you think that soldier isn't completely fucked up over this?

...do you think that potentially facing 62 years in prison at hard labor is a joke, or that the men making that decision aren't taking it seriously?

...really, what do you think? ...or are you begging to be on the firing squad?</div>

<div style='font: 9pt ; text-align: left; '>And to answer your question, yes, if the pilot were in my house right now i would put a bullet into his skull, American, English, Canadian, whatever nationality he may have been, because HE was careless and disobeyed orders and killed innocent people, who were only there to help him.</div>

<div style='font: 9pt ; text-align: left; '>And to answer your question, yes, if the pilot were in my house right now i would put a bullet into his skull, American, English, Canadian, whatever nationality he may have been, because HE was careless and disobeyed orders and killed innocent people, who were only there to help him.

Oh yeah, this wasn't friendly fire.... this was Fraticide.</div>

<div style='font: 10pt verdana; text-align: left; padding: 0% 10% 0% 10%; '><b>Link:</b> <a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/2882795.s ... 795.stm</a>

Everything I've read made it sound like it was someone on the ground, not in the air, who fired the Patriot. Where are you getting your information?</div>

<div style='font: 9pt ; text-align: left; '>Im talking about Afghanistan - where they killed Canadians</div>