I'm not RACooper (obviously), but as we share the same country, I feel compelled to respond....
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Originally posted by James
I was talking to some military friends about that incident in Iraq where American pilots killed some Canadian Troopers . . .
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That incident happened near Kandahar in Afghanistan, not Iraq.
Canada is not involved in Iraq.
This is all about them.
http://www.cbc.ca/news/background/fr...otheywere.html
As for the "it's one of those things that happen in war", sure, I suppose friendly fire incidents are an unfortunate part of war; that being said, I am sure that if the shoe was on the other foot and some Canadians mistakenly dropped a bomb on American troops, the fur would definitely fly.
The whole thing sucks and not really something where you can go, "Oh well" and shrug your shoulders. And it needs to be stressed that those pilot dudes dropped the bomb when they were ordered to
"hold fire". But they dropped the bomb anyway. Nice.
