Video of US friendly fire

Video of US friendly fire unleashes storm in UK. : "United States and British officials have denied trying to bury details of a 'friendly fire' incident after a cockpit video was leaked in which US pilots are heard weeping after mistakenly killing a British soldier in Iraq."

We need to stop talking about friendly fire immediately. It is a grossly inappropriate term which denies the reality for everyone concerned. Let's keep it all honest, shall we and then the picture won't get skewed and people will heal better. Shooting and killing is shooting and killing. If you didn't have weapons, then you wouldn't kill people. If you didn't have military stuff then the wholesale damage to life and limb, which cannot be denied, would not occur. That's me. I do not believe you fix anything with violence. I think you make it worse. When in a military situation there will be unintentional killing of people, but here are no excuses for that. You cannot pretend it's something else by calling it "friendly fire." It solves nothing for the people who mistakenly killed someone they didn't mean to and it does nothing for the families of the people killed. It shows no respect for anyone to treat it in such a glib fashion. Obviously the US pilots were very upset. This is a burden they have been carrying. It would help them more if they could front up in some kind of an honest way and say yes, we stuffed up big time, we were thinking ....and then the military can address this and try and put better precautions/training/methodology in place to avoid such mishaps. The family of Lance Corporal Hull would probably need to meet the pilots as much as the pilots need to meet the family of Lance Corporal Hull. Military things can go so awry but avoiding dealing with them does not help. All of this can be resolved within the confines of a proper hearing and civilised meeting so that sensitive information is managed. It's the humanity of it which needs to be dealt with.