The British did not prosecute the British Soldiers involved in the friendly fire death of Sergeant Steven Roberts, 2nd Royal Tank Regiment 24 March 2003 or the friendly fire deaths of Cpl Stephen Allbutt and Trooper David Clarke Queen's Royal Lancers, March 25, 2003.
So why the double standard ?
2007-02-07 10:57:08 · 7 answers · asked by jeeper_peeper321 7 in Politics & Government ➔ Military
Because the British are Europeans and Europeans have an inferiority complex because they suck and America is great.
2007-02-07 11:13:22 · answer #1 · answered by judenstaat 3 · 7⤊ 5⤋
The truth is important, the findings could help to improve and minimize further "F..." mortality. There might be underlying causes that need to be studied and hiding away from shame or negligence should not be an excuse for mistakes. A fair trial is necessary and it would surface out the flaws, the lack of transparency in coordinating instructions and command.Collateral damage might be inevitable but could be minimize through careful learning from wrong doing.
It's not double standard objectively, it's for the good of the future endeavours so to speak.
2007-02-07 21:48:00 · answer #2 · answered by Micky 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
maybe you should learn Close Air Support procedures. The ground commander is responsible for the actions of the pilots because he has overall control.
Not even the ground controller is responsible because the commander has to authorize the pilots to be "cleared."
2007-02-08 09:31:35 · answer #3 · answered by The Tin Man 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
whilst none of us mere mortals know the full story what I think a HUGE amount of Americans seem to forget is that the Brits have lost MANY men to so called friendly fire...........does not make them any less dead but OMFG just think how that makes the family feels................
As for the others well lets just say the USA has not exactly RUSHED to give out the info required to follow up.
Also would like to point out that ALL the USA and Brits stuff have bleepers on their equipment and to be honest is NOT rocket science to be able to tell the difference between friendly and enemy BUT that said my brother has had to go over and explain it several times to the USA forces the second time he escorted back 10 bodies of Friendly fire..............
2007-02-07 20:46:41 · answer #4 · answered by candy g 7 · 1⤊ 2⤋
The yank pilots were given the coordinates and the information prior to the flight. They went into gung ho mode and if you listen to the tape they knew that they had ****** up!
2007-02-07 19:10:32 · answer #5 · answered by Shelty K 5 · 4⤊ 4⤋
I do not know. That is hippocritical but you probably don't know the full story, as I do not. It probably has something to do with the orders that were given from above.
2007-02-07 19:05:56 · answer #6 · answered by Entrepreneur 3 · 4⤊ 2⤋
easy,because the American pilots did it in such a ridiculous stupid fashion and they were even told they weren't Iraqis so i think they shoud get 5 years for that easily,when a british troop kills a yank it is because they genraly think its the enemy and are told from the people above them,and they most probebly dont say ,oh **** were gonna go to jail, after killing them they would probebly feel quite upset
2007-02-07 19:06:42 · answer #7 · answered by stoke 2 · 2⤊ 5⤋