Reply #4: I remember the Vincennes...

[JHB]

...shooting down an Iranian airliner and thinking the only honorable response would be an immediate apology to the people of Iran. Not to the ayatollah's government, but to the people. A full investigation was in order, and EVERY possibility should be examined, but at the end of the day it was obvious a terrible, terrible tragedy had occured at our hands, and we had no choice but to offer our apologies and condolences.

Of course, Reagan did nothing of the sort, played to the jingo home crowd, and instead implied (without evidence) that the airliner was a suicide plane.