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"American Shoot Down British Jet"

Reports of a British jet (unconfirmed which kind it is) being shot down by Americans over Umm Qasr are flooding in.

The British General isn't at liberty to confirm how many were on board the plane at this time.

But all I can say is - they seem to do it all the time, don't they.

*Shakes Head*

Our thoughts go out to the family's of the men killed.


They believe the reason it was shot down is because the night before, there were unconfirmed alerts of unmanned Iraqi planes in the vicinity.
Of course, they were most likely to have chemical/biological weapons on board, so they took no risks.

What a shame.

Hmmm.

Someone's messed up methinks.

:-D

WòókieeMøn§†€® wrote:
> Though God help us if the Amercians are forced to retreat - they might
> think they're surrounded!

:-D
I can imagine the scene.
After we give no resistance (As we normally don't shoot our own men...), they celebrate.

"That was easy man, like, totally easy dude"

"Uh, sir, they have a British callsign...."

"Hmmm. They must have captured some British troops and stole their clothes"

"2000 of them sir?"

"Um. Yeah."

Azul wrote:
> What he said was, "The British are too slow during warfare. We
> should be in there on our own."

That'll be because the British prefer to take the necessary precautions, whereas the American's go at it gung-ho, thinking they're in a Rambo movie and can't get hurt.

Personally, I'm happy our boys are taking their time and falling behind the US troops. At least then they can't shoot us in the back thinking we're an advancing Iraqi army.

Though God help us if the Amercians are forced to retreat - they might think they're surrounded!

The americans came and helped us in the last year of the war, then claimed that they won it, damn americans, we would of won it any way, they just came in on the very last year, done nothing, then we won, but they claim that they did just because it ended when they came...

Just to mention, although exactly what happened is mostly unconfirmed/speculation. It was apparently shot down by a patriot missile. Those systems are mostly automated, and they can track, and launch at targets at their own without human intervention. So could well be a technology failure.

And as somebody else pointed out in another thread, these sweeping generalisations about US incompetence really don't serve any purpose.

I heard reports that a US soldier deliberately threw three hand grenades into a tent, where inside were his own generals and partners in war. 13 were injured in total. He was arrested and is still being interrogated.

I just think the yanks are mentally insane and are treating the war like it's a game.

Useless yanks

They apparently have unmanned remote controlled drone planes. Either loaded with bombs to drop, or just packed with explosives to crash into something, they're effective, though easily shot down.

Screw going to war against them, it's suicide going to war WITH America.

I was under the impression Iraq doesn't even have an air force, so why such a mistake was made is beyond me.