Worst day on the job

[Muninn]

The most difficult day Rumsfeld had was when he learned of the abuses in Abu Ghraib.

I wonder, wouldn't a Defense Secretary's worst day be when his nation suffers the most severe terrorist attack in its history?

[Angstwolf]

Not to mention, 9/11 is a very cliché response from a politican. He was probably trying to spice things up a bit by not saying the obvious. Not to say that's a very good strategy.

[Rooster]

And yet he sleeps through numerous friendly fire incidents that have resulted in nearly a hundred allied servicemen and civilian personel?

Huh.

[osprey]

Ya, Canadian troops were bombed on more than one occasion by American planes...resulting in casualties. Not to mention the hundreds upon hundreds of innocent civilians killed.

[Comrade K]

I hate how the American pilots who bombed that APC or whatever it was and killed four Canadians just got off with a slap on the hand. I wonder, what would happen to a Canadian pilot if they were to do the same to Americans?

Anyway, I'm sure Rumsfeld loved 9-11, I mean, it was great wasn't it? An excuse to further Pax Americana, Hooray!

[Twyman]

Don't feel left out. If the Blitz wasn't enough, Americans like to bomb our troops now and then. It's remarkably hard to distinguish the Union Jack in the crowded desert...And to try to keep it in memory that Iraqi forces didn't have modern tanks. (They bombed our tank squad or whatever the hell they call a unit with a few tanks in it).

At the end of the day I don't care. We all knew what we were in for.

Up the morning!

[Comrade K]

Ah well, the worst part is that we're not even in Iraq, just Afghanistan, and I don't even think they really have <i>vehicles</i>.

[Comrade K]

Yes, they do have vehicles, I'll admit to that. But what I;m trying to say is that, unlike Iraq, where many civilians own vehicles and the government actually has an army equipped with Armour and support vehicles, most people in afghanistan can't afford them, and the former government- i.e. the Taliban's vehicle fleet didn't consist of much but technicals, and small cars. My point is that the Taliban weren't using LAV III armoured fighting vehicles with state of the art systems, they were using cars and some old russian stuff, yet the American pilots still bombed the LAV III.

[Comrade K]

True, but, all the same, they fired just after they radioed in to ask if the vehicle was an enemy, and responce that came in right after they fired was that it was a friendly vehicle. It wasn't in the heat of battle, they just fired without going through proper procedure.

[Twyman]

Well its probably tough to know what things are while in the air

Yeah, but they still need to know what they're dropping their bombs on before the hatches drop. In the scenario with the British troops, us Brits were just on their way to a rendevous (My French spelling is terrible).... (According to the papers).....(Not my spelling; the scenario).