Updated: Footage of U.S. pilots killing Britis puts the squeeze on Blair [VIDEO]

Here's a video clip taken from a U.S. A-10 "Warthog," as the pilots get clearance to fire on a convoy in Iraq, only to discover they had targeted a British armored column, killing one soldier and wounding four others.

All that technology -- all that stuff about virtual battle-space and full-spectrum dominance we always hear about -- and yet, human errors still happen all the time. Mistakes are fatal -- it's another reason why you don't go to war for anything less than purposes of self-defense.

This is also a heated political issue in the UK; the U.S. military was less-than-forthcoming about what occurred out there.

Iraqslogger:

The Sun newspapers today: Joy at direct hit turns to horror; the full, disturbing truth about how the US pilot of an A-10 tankbuster jet broke all the rules to shoot up a British convoy in the Iraq war. The Sun has obtained the cockpit videotape at the centre of a diplomatic row between the two Allies. It shows how the pilots -- reservists who had never been in action before -- made SIX crucial errors. They left 25-year-old Lance Corporal of Horse Matty Hull dead and four comrades from the Household Cavalry Regiment seriously injured. They call it harrowing truth and a "cover up that has gone on long enough."