I think the air-launched ones have a range more like 1500 km, but that's nit-picking.

Maybe they meant to drop a guided bomb and someone hit the wrong button. But no, that couldn't happen, that would be like someone shooting down one of their own planes with a patriot missile, or engaging one of their own units for an hour an a half before realizing something was wrong.

Maybe it was an Iraqi missile too, I'm just saying that it's entirely within the realm of possibility that it was a US weapon, with the info so far available.

And by the way, I haven't seen anything that definitely claims it was a cruise missile, US planes carry lots of other types of missiles and bombs that would do that kind of damage. And don't say that a pilot couldn't have dropped something when they shouldn't have - just ask the families of Sgt. Marc D. Leger, Cpl. Ainsworth Dyer, Pte. Richard Green, and Pte. Nathan Smith.