It was only a matter of time before the ‘WP’ debate leaped from left-wing anti-war activists to left-wing blogs to the foreign press to the NY Times editorial page, so this was to be expected: Now the use of a ghastly weapon called white phosphorus has raised questions about how careful the military has been …
More Willy Pete, or “Those Aren’t the Nasty Charges You Are Looking For…”
I am glad to see that the front-pagers of the Daily Kos appear to have joined Think Progress in their headlong retreat from the charges that our soldiers used ‘chemical weapons’ against innocent civilians and insurgents. The charge was first leveled, of course, by an RAI film crew, and picked up by the usual suspects- …
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Think Progress Responds, Sort Of
Think Progress responds, sort of, to the posts I have made taking them to task (here, here, and here) in a piece called ‘The Truth About ThinkProgress’ White Phosphorus Coverage.” The response, in a nutshell, is that they never claimed WP is a chemical weapon. Instead, they state it is ‘technically not a chemical weapon,’ …
The Nasty and Unfounded WP/Fallujah War Crimes Allegations
If I’ve lost Walter Cronkite, I’ve lost Middle America. – President Lyndon Baines Johnson Just how nasty and baseless are the current allegations that our soldiers used chemical weapons on civilians and insurgents in Fallujah? I will let an unexpected (and vocally anti-war) source have a say: I agree that the invasion in 2003 was …
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Mainstreaming B***S*** and Smearing Their Own Country
Congratulations Kos and ThinkProgress! You have successfully peddled the phone conversation between two Kurdish brothers to uncritical media outlets, and they are running with it, pretending that this unedited raw intelligence report is actually Pentagon policy: Sigfrido Ranucci, who made the documentary for the RAI television channel aired two weeks ago, said that a US …
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Think Progress and WP
How eager is Think Progress to claim that out troops used chemical weapons and are thus, as Kos states, no better than Saddam himself? So much so that the declassified intel they used yesterday as ‘proof’ that the Pentagon and US military ‘classify’ White Phosphorus as a ‘chemical’ weapon is little more than a transcription …
More WP Bullshit
The folks at Think Progress, ever eager to smear the Pentagon or the troops in order to attain some margin of domestic political gain (you see- the Pentagon is the administration, and vice versa), find a decrypted intelligence memo that calls Phosphorus a ‘chemical weapon,’ and just like that, our troops are war criminals again: …