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To: HerrBlucher
The U.S. accidentally shot down an Iranian airliner in 1988.

In 1968 (one year after the Liberty incident), the USAF attacked an Australian Navy destroyer off Vietnam.

Did they confuse it with one of the North Vietnam Charles F Adams class destroyers, or something darker?

There's something pathetic about Americans - with the worst Air Force in history for blue on blue incidents - imagining any attack on then HAD to be planned.

"British, wave and cheer. German, shoot at it. American, take cover." British Army aircraft maxim circa 1944.

27 posted on 06/09/2007 2:41:12 AM PDT by Oztrich Boy (conservatism as the fusion of libertarianism and traditionalism - John Stuart Mill and Edmund Burke)
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To: Oztrich Boy

Got a link to what you’re talking about?


34 posted on 06/09/2007 4:43:28 AM PDT by GATOR NAVY
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To: Oztrich Boy

“British, wave and cheer. German, shoot at it. American, take cover.” British Army aircraft maxim circa 1944.”

good one...


40 posted on 06/09/2007 5:30:29 AM PDT by dakine
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