When I was checking how many British soldiers were killed during the First Gulf War in 1991 when the Americans attacked a halted armored column I was struck by one thing. That was the similarities between the 1991 incident and the US attack on a Canadian live fire exercise in Afghanistan in 2002 which killed four Canadian soldiers. Both incidents involved the Air National Guard, which has a load of civilian passenger jet pilots irresponsibly put in charge of military hardware. But main similarity was that the pilots involved just wanted to kill someone and they didn't care who. Just as long as it wasn't a fellow American. Then they might be trouble. The third similarity was the gross stupidity, lack of professionalism and incompetence involved in both fatal attacks. Both incidents were closer to reckless murder than accident of war. Is there not a song with the line Shot a man Reno just to watch him die. Maybe National Guard has a version along the lines of Bombed some guys in Iraq just to see the body parts fly.