From: "Gary Britt" 

If only they had been French!

Cheers,

Gary

"Gene McAloon"  wrote in message
news:ek8oe0ts4aigcjnev7n5ojar1gehpra1i1{at}4ax.com...
> On Wed, 07 Jul 2004 08:02:11 +0200, Phil Payne 
wrote:
>
> >> An Air Force fighter pilot who mistakenly bombed a group of Canadian
> >> soldiers in Afghanistan in 2002 -- killing four and injuring eight --
was
> >> found guilty of dereliction of duty yesterday and was fined $5,672 for
an
> >> act that a military commander characterized as shameful
> >
> >What's $5672 divided by four?
>
> The military commander's decision was itself characterized as shameful by
the
> pilot's attorney. Many still believe, as I still suspect, that the
decision was
> a cover-up for the military's own bungling. At that, had those killed not
been
> Canadian, there probably would have been nothing more than an
administrative
> action taken against him; a reprimand put into his personnel file.  The
trial
> was political, little more.

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