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I read it was only 9.
RT News? Come on son. If I want bullshit propaganda I'll watch Fox News
RT News? Come on son. If I want bullshit propaganda I'll watch Fox News
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First friendly fire accident in Operation Inherent Resolve. These things are unfortunately a part of every war.
A miscalculation sure but there had been two prior strikes on ISIS targets that did not harm any Iraqi troops.
......oppsies......
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What's the difference between an al quaeda hideout and a Pakistani wedding??
I dunno, I just fly the drone!
Iraq x2
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How often do friendly fire accidents take place?
Also, thank you. I don't know if you guys hear that enough. You have my eternal respect.
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Failures are more likely multifactorial and systemic than one person.
Prob not stupid. Just little failure after another after another bypassing safeguards designed to prevent this.
Didn't read anything aboot this but getting fucked up grids is also a real possibility when dealing with a shit army like the Iraqis have
I never got bombed but I've had US army convoys open fire on us at night like fucking idiots. Good think they were horrible shots.and you'd gear stories like that fairly often. I think another army patrol called a fucking A-10 run on us one night.... It didn't get approved but when we got back from patrol we found out about it.
And you'd hear about an IA patrol opening fire on patrols sometimes and they'd get lit up with the quickness. It's a big shit show over there and their army is laughable.
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Iraqi soldiers killed by US coalition friendly fire - BBC News
Yeah it was only 9 according to the BBC, not 30.
RT News is just a Kremlin mouthpiece. If you're looking for accurate news reporting it's definitely not the place to look.
Yeah it was only 9 according to the BBC, not 30.
RT News is just a Kremlin mouthpiece. If you're looking for accurate news reporting it's definitely not the place to look.
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Crazy. Pat Tillman was killed in a friendly fire incident in Afghanistan.
Did you ever see the Pesh Merga? Are they any better?
No, I only had the opportunity to meet a small handful of kurds. I liked them much better.
Ya the Pat Tillman shit is crazy, but war is fucking crazy and ugly and gross and it changes you, especially while you're there. Me now could never survive over there. It's a different mind set.
I'm not sure the BBC is either.
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Really? Most consider the bbc fairly rounded.
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No, but even in its bias it's not as blatantly full of shit as RT News is. And with most international news stories I find the BBC does a pretty good job of trying to be fair to all sides.
I usually double-check with Al Jazeera to confirm accuracy.
I've been a bit unimpressed with their coverage of Jeremy Corbyn, but it looks like they are fairly reliable in this case. Iraqi Minister of Defence is saying it was 9 deaths. Perhaps there were 21 others wounded, as RT is reporting.
Every American war. 1 out of 3 for blue on blue is not a good statistic.
It's well known over here that the American military are more trigger happy and more likely to commit "friendly fire".