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Originally Posted by blankall
No one is supporting the US in the Vincennes incident. However, anyone who is stating that it's totally equivalent to the current incident in Iran is purposely being obtuse.
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I am not sure what you mean by totally equivalent, but in both cases an airliner was shot down and the respective Governments initially tried to deny they had screwed up, all I was trying to point out was that it was wholly believable, and beyond that most likely that, as in the Vincennes, the Iranians had shot the airliner down by mistake, mostly because the Iranians, like the US before, had nothing to gain by shooting down an airliner.
Beyond that there was a lot of indignation that Iran took a day longer to fess up than the americans, personally I suspect either side would have covered it up if they could.