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Numbering 35,000 troops in all, British regiments bearing such names as the Royal Scots Dragoon Guards and the Queen's Royal Irish Hussars sped forward into fire fights and swept through Iraqi armor concentrations without losing a single tank. In the ground war's most tragic incident, however, nine British soldiers lost their lives to friendly fire when an American A-10 tank-killer aircraft hit two armored vehicles by mistake...
...noted by Thomas Friedman of the New York Times, Syria's record on human rights this past year was "barely distinguishable from that of Iraq". Continued appeasement of Assad will bring upon the region and the world the same tragic results of the U.S.'s warming of relations with Saddam Hussein during the 1980s...
...This is a tragic day for the Yale community," Schmidt said. "We are outraged by this despicable, senseless crime...
...tragic exchange was one of the first engagements of the ground war, an opening volley in the 36-hour battle of Khafji. It also represents this war's first documented case of U.S. casualties from "friendly fire" -- a combat euphemism for troops' getting shot, shelled or bombed by their own side...
...thought such self-questioning doubt was reserved for certain Shakespearean tragic heroes. Little did we know that a certain Undergraduate Council chair was losing sleep over the very same question...