Okay, for those of you who have been lucky enough to have never been shot at, or mortared, or had an RPG fired at you, or been in a live minefield, or missed the tripwire by *this* much.... let me say something:

Ambulances in combat zones are not paited bright white, and they do not have flashing lights and sirens on them. Not even the ones owned by the Red Cross (at least not the ones that I've seen, if someone knows otherwise, I shall stand corrected).

There is a very old phrase known as "The fog of war." It may be the most accurate four word description I know of. Combat is damned confusing. You are scared, your adreniline is pumping, your heart is beating out of your chest, and you could die at any second. It makes people really freaking jumpy. Especially when they can't positively identify a target.

Ideally, you want your soldiers to be able to make that identification before pulling the trigger, but it doesn't always happen that way. Especially when you think if you wait one more second, a bullet is going to be going straight through your brain housing group.

I for one, having been in combat, am far more likely to jump to the conclusion that a pilot or pilots made a) a mistake in identification or b)had itchy trigger fingers before I would assume that the Government of Isreal ordered them to open fire on Red Cross ambulances.

The net result may be the same --and it's bad, I don't condone it-- but I think intent makes a lot of difference when determining morality of an action. My two cents.