It seems that in the assault in Fallujah, someone, my guess would be a crew-chief or ordinanceman messed up, and they dropped a bunch of willie-pete on the civvies there. According to the cited article, there's a cover-up going on about it. I hope that's true. There'll be huge numbers of folks citing conspiracy & the like. Sort of like the old 'The CIA denied it, so it must be true' reasoning, anything of bad press must have been on purpose, at least if you believe the mainstream media. I suspect that someone, rather than wait for the proper ordinance, said "Hell, we've got these laying around over here from back in the initial assault, why not just use 'em up?", and now folks're crying foul. Dropping WP on areas containing civvies isn't the best way to win hearts & minds, but hardly constitutes a war-crime or Abu Graib(sp?) Mark II. Let's hope the cover-up succeeds so the guy who screwed up can get by with just a scolding instead of being court-martialled.
And also so we don't end up with yet another black-eye in the press to distract from the good that's being done there.
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Jim, it really doesn't matter. The press WILL NOT print anything good about what we do over here. They just won't. Maybe its the "blood sells" idea, maybe they just hate Bush/War/Republicans/global warming/whatever, maybe they are living their "Vietnam Revisited" wetdream. It simple doesn't matter what it is. I have seen so many good stories go by the wayside for "Today, an IED detonated on a US Convoy, 1 soldier wounded" and "Abu-Garbi Revisited, what really happened" that I have just given up. Anyone I met who says they get their news information from the MSM I will dismiss as an idiot and a fool. If we killed Al-Zaqawi today on live TV in a shootout, the newsstory would go "A-Z killed in firefight, experts agree this won't have any impact on the war in Iraq". That's why blogs are so important now. Keep posting, but give up on the MSM, they need to be driven out of business. BTW, 3 days and a wake-up.
Sadly, I'll have to agree with Mike re: MSM.
-- rufel
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