U.S. Syria raid kills 80 .....

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Depicted by the Pentagon as a mere border skirmish, the June 18 strike into Syria by U.S. military forces was, in fact, based on mistaken intelligence and penetrated more than 25 miles into that country, causing numerous Syrian casualties, several serving and former administration officials said.

Although diplomatic relations between the two sides have been frosty after the fall of Saddam Hussein's regime in Iraq, the two nations have close intelligence ties, which have become strained as a result, these sources said.

"I think this was a deliberate effort to disrupt cooperation between U.S. and Syrian intelligence agencies," an administration official said

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2. Eighty innocent people accidently killed by US bombs.

That's a lot of collateral dammage with not much of a victory, in my oppinion. Don't we owe someone an apology?

Probably won't even make it onto TV, what with this Kobe Bryant rape accusation.

Afterall, a rape accusation is at least a thousand times more important than blowing up eighty people out in some desert last month.

I expect the White House explaination to go something like this: "Get over it. Why do you keep harping on this revisionist history? Can't we move on? There's enough blame to go around for everyone. Our intelligence was darn good, but on this we were out of the loop."