The latest Crikey email carried this spray:

If the Brits could stop crashing into each other's helicopters & shooting their own war correspondents, and the Americans didn't harbour rogue soldiers rolling grenades into their own tents, the War on Saddam would be a resounding success.
The self-inflicted wounds have marred enormous territorial gains, as the Coalition rolls forward.
Yesterday, it seemed veteran ITN correspondent Terry Lloyd, cameraman Fred Nerac and translator Hussein Othman were killed by friendly fire.
There was Australian photographer Paul Moran killed by local terrorists in Northern Iraq.
And the bizarre case of the US soldier who killed and wounded his own comrades in Kuwait.
It seems that the pinpoint accuracy of the 'Shock & Awe' bombing campaign means the safest place and occupation so far seems to be a journalist in Baghdad.

I presume Crikey hadn't heard about this before the email went out:

A British Royal Air Force aircraft returning from a mission in Iraq was possibly shot down by Patriot missiles near the Kuwaiti border, British and U.S. military officials said Sunday.
A senior Pentagon official confirmed to CNN that a Patriot missile probably shot down the RAF plane.

As I was saying the other day, our side appears to be doing better at attacking itself than the Iraqis are. Pinpoint accuracy is fine, but only when you're aiming at the right pinpoint.

posted by James Russell | 9:56 PM