Alison, this is a tragic report about Iraq, not Iran. The US reponse of not commenting because of an ongoing investigation is designed to defuse public outrage and address it only when the impact of the disaster has died down.

David, Toronto, Canada

I hope US loses misrably in Iraq and Afghanistan. It has committed to many crimes and made too many widows.

Peter, Bolton, Britain

Well, it's typical american gung ho cowboy mentailty!!
One does NOT make friends by bombing kids and women, as part of the 'colletral' damage stratgy, that they have always used to justify these mistakes, in their so called war on terror.
Who is terrorising whom?

Arvin, Lon, GB

How is it that civilians are allowed to be killed with the type of surveillance and the money we spend for it. Careless mistakes need to stop and there needs to be consequences for actions like this.

Jonathan, Tallahassee, United States

...did no passports of foreign nationals conveniently appear from of the fallout, one wonders...?

Abdul Majeed, Bradford, West Yorkshire, UK

I love these attacks from the same people who killed thousands when Dresden was bombed. Warfare is not perfect and mistakes will happen. Your own soldiers just went through a friendly fire attack from one of your own apaches. This was a mistake by the US. The Taliban do it on purpose.

Brian B, Syracuse, US

Global hegemony - death and murder - these are the stars and stripes of American Imperialism.

Oh for the heady days of the Raj - relative calm.

Please, someone tell me what would be the global reaction to the Taliban slaughtering an entire wedding party - especially one in Salt Lake City ?

sam, london, UK

Absolutely horrendous! These pilots should be charged. We can't keep allowing this to happen if we want to win this damn war, accident or not (though it was surely an accident).

jj, Columbus, usa

"Large groups of people are an indicator of enemy forces."
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<br/>JD Bedsole, Opp, Ala. , USA
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<br/>What a sick reply! No decent American can feel anything other than shame - at your reply - let alone the outrageous deliberate brutality of US forces.
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Gearoid Dullaghan, Dublin, Ireland

i think these so-called precision air strikes should only be used on enemy structures/ buildings. Very hard to tell between men/women/children from way up above. The risk of killing innocents outweigh the gains, so why do we still use these methods?

Mush, London,

Are we surprise USA is doing same again in Iraq and Afghanistan killing innocent civilians, we should remind ourselves of their records in Vietnam and other places in recent memory. To them anyone is fair game and Muslims lives is cheap.

Wasiu Oloyede, London, UK

Time and time again we see the indiscriminate brutality of the US forces. There is no excuse for the mass murder of innocent civilians by an airforce that prides itself on its superior technology. Heck, this is the same America that has satellites that can 'read' car number plates from space.

Nigel Cohen, London,

Why is this not a war crime?

Because they were just muslims?

tarquinis, Seattle, USA

There must be some magical property imparted to these bombs that allows them to only ever kill women and children.

Alan, Edinburgh,

A fighter pilot is there to protect his ground forces and to kill enemy forces. Just looking from 10,000 feet or higher, you cannot determine enemy or friend. You communicate with your own forces. You DO NOT communicate with the enemy. Large groups of people are an indicator of enemy forces.

JD Bedsole, Opp, Ala. , USA

Is that how the Americans and Israelis going to win a possible war with Iran?

alison, Birmingham, uk