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Old April 6, 2003, 06:24   #1
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America bombs its own convoy in Iraq
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BBC World Affairs Editor John Simpson has been wounded in a bomb attack by a US plane on a US convoy carrying Kurdish civilians. At least 10 people are said to have been killed and the event was described as a 'scene from Hell' by Simpson, who reported directly from the scene.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/mid...st/2921743.stm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/mid...st/2921807.stm
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Old April 6, 2003, 07:05   #2
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Old April 6, 2003, 08:41   #3
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Hey but at least most of them were Kurdish so it's not too bad.
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Old April 6, 2003, 09:43   #5
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I think the USA has an agenda to destroy the UK bit by bit...

What next?

An ICBM on London?
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no no, were gonna unleash immigrants upon you! if theres one thing americans have learned is if you fail at life, you can always blame a brown person for taking your place in society.
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I think the USA has plenty of people trying to sneak in, not out...
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yeah, but its good because it forces people who arent immigrants to make something of themselves and not live mediocre lives of minimum wage work.
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Old April 6, 2003, 10:06   #9
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I think the USA has an agenda to destroy the UK bit by bit...

What next?

An ICBM on London?
Thats a pretty big "bit".
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Was the intel on the convoy from the Turks?
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I guess there is a severe shortage of "smart" pilots...
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More Canadians were killed by Americans in Afghanistan than by the Afghanis.

More Brits were killed by the Americans during Gulf War I than by the Iraqis.

In fact, I think Americans have killed and injured more Americans in the current war than the Iraqis have. Is anyone keeping score ?

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Last week Rumsfeld wanted to set up a provisional Free Iraqi government in the southern part of the country. For once, his idiocy was vetoed.
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Is anyone keeping score ?
Apparently you are.
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I mean officially keeping score.
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So maybe they were after that high ranking Kurdish politician?
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Old April 6, 2003, 17:12   #19
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Hey but at least most of them were Kurdish so it's not too bad.
Should this be reported to the moderators?
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Bloody hell, they'll have seen it by now. It was nine hours ago.
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Didn't notice that. I just opened the thread five minutes ago. Anyway, what is that comment supposed to mean? A simple attempt at trolling to start some flame war, or some racist comment about the superiority of Americans?
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In fact, I think Americans have killed and injured more Americans in the current war than the Iraqis have. Is anyone keeping score ?
I was just thinking the same thing. With friends like that, who needs enemies?
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I was just thinking the same thing. With friends like that, who needs enemies?
Exactly. More Americans were killed last year by gun murders from other Americans than in more than 3 September 11ths. Yet "Gun Control" is deemed as unAmerican.
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I've spoken to veterans of WW2, the Korean, Vietnam and Gulf Wars and all of them (NZers, Aussies, Brits) told me that they were often as scared of the Americans as the enemy. In their words, "those guys would shoot at anything as soon as they saw it."

What is wrong here? Do the US armed forces have poor weapon release protocols or something? I mean, the Brits haven't been machine gunning civilian vehicles at checkpoints as far as I know.
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US soldiers are probably all hopped up on amphetamines.
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There is something seriously wrong with US rules of engagement and target identification.
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Are you sure it's not that they're just plain thick?
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You don't need that last part AH.
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I think trigger happy is more like it.

In Vietnam Australian patrols would actually hide when US forces went by.
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I think trigger happy is more like it.

In Vietnam Australian patrols would actually hide when US forces went by.
This is exactly what I heard, from the horse's mouth, so to speak. What hell is wrong with them?
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