[motexva]

10 mg? Please. This had nothing to do with it. They could have drank a bunch of coffee and this would have happened under your reasoning.

It was an accident. They'll be acquitted. They're having the trial to appease the Canadians, who are a bunch of skittish ninnies.

[Jorge]

10 mg? Please. This had nothing to do with it. They could have drank a bunch of coffee and this would have happened under your reasoning.

Anyone who's done Dexedrine knows that it's effects are not the same as simply drinking a bunch of coffee.
Especially over the long term.
I don't believe the claimed 10 mg recommended average dosage would be stuck to religiously in these situations either. You can be sure the pilots are given a certain amount of discretion when it comes to dosage.
I've used Dexedrine and many other forms of amphetimines in the past and know how kooked out and wired out they can make people. You can even begin to hallucinate.

[Cannoneer No. 4]

It WAS an accident, insofar as nobody is accusing them of INTENTIONALLY causing friendly casualties. Why did this accident occur? Read SUMMARY OF FACTS: TARNAK FARMS FRIENDLY FIRE INCIDENT NEAR KANDAHAR, AFGHANISTAN 17 APRIL 2002

There is quite a bit more to this sad story than most sources are reporting. They did wrong and good guys died, and I am not unpatriotic, anti-military, or anti-Illinois Air Guard to say that.

[Cannoneer No. 4]

They're having the trial to appease the Canadians, who are a bunch of skittish ninnies.

Do you not think they would have been tried if they had killed American 101st ABN troops, or Royal Marines, or Australian SAS? Were the Apache crews who took out friendly Bradleys in 1991 not brought to trial?

The Princess Patricia Canadian Light Infantry was attached to TF RAKKASAN, 101st ABN DIV at the time. Those four dead troopers could just as easily have been Americans.