Reply #36: well, as screembloodymurder pointed out above...

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... it would be interesting to find out whether the other seven really existed. I hope somebody with access to those records does a little digging.

(I may be naive but I have a hard time believing that anybody would order the deaths of seven additional innocent soldiers die just to get revenge on writers of an opinion piece. I don't have a hard time believing they'd let Iraqis die in that accident, but seven US soldiers seems like a high price to pay just to get back at people whose moment in the sun was already over as far as the media were concerned.)