Dallas wrote:
On Sat, 19 Jul 2008 01:22:32 GMT, TheSmokingGnu wrote:

But not this. The aircraft was using the right code. The sailors aboard
the Vincennes just didn't bother to check the civilian flight schedules.

Yeah... that was pretty ugly on our part... lots of floating dead Iranian
civilians in the water. They haven't gotten over it yet.

Pretty much the same thing as the Russians shooting down Korean Air Lines
Flight 007 in 1983.
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Dallas

Not quite.

The Soviet Union had a long history of shoot first and ask questions
later.

The US was never in general so trigger happy.

If it were, I personally would have blown away a **** load of people.

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Jim Pennino

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