Speaking of American Exceptionalism. How about the main stream media (albeit, the foreign MSM) now reporting atrocities.
You’ve read about it early and often on the Booman Tribune’s own recommended list. But now the The Independent is weighing in.
Powerful new evidence emerged yesterday that the United States dropped massive quantities of white phosphorus on the Iraqi city of Fallujah during the attack on the city in November 2004, killing insurgents and civilians with the appalling burns that are the signature of this weapon.
Egads! Not the U.S. We don’t torture innocent people. Haven’t you people heard the President’s latest speech. This is all a mistake.
Ever since the assault, which went unreported by any Western journalists, rumours have swirled that the Americans used chemical weapons on the city.
You mean we in the U.S. aren’t getting any real news coverage. Preposterous. I watch Fox News daily. And I know damn well that those fucks in Falluja deserved to be chemically roasted alive. Yes. Even the children. They fucking were planning on making mushroom clouds in America, weren’t they? And they were helping train Osama’s guys right before the towers came down. Fuck. This Independent is a bunch of Commie bullshit. I’m calling O’Reilly.
In December the US government formally denied the reports, describing them as “widespread myths”. “Some news accounts have claimed that US forces have used ‘outlawed’ phosphorus shells in Fallujah,” the USinfo website said. “Phosphorus shells are not outlawed. US forces have used them very sparingly in Fallujah, for illumination purposes.
See. I knew the U.S. wouldn’t do anything wrong. Sensationalist journalists. I’m sure the U.S. MSM will get this story right in a week or two. Like we would ever burn innocent people.
But now new information has surfaced, including hideous photographs and videos and interviews with American soldiers who took part in the Fallujah attack, which provides graphic proof that phosphorus shells were widely deployed in the city as a weapon.
In a documentary to be broadcast by RAI, the Italian state broadcaster, this morning, a former American soldier who fought at Fallujah says: “I heard the order to pay attention because they were going to use white phosphorus on Fallujah. In military jargon it’s known as Willy Pete.
“Phosphorus burns bodies, in fact it melts the flesh all the way down to the bone … I saw the burned bodies of women and children. Phosphorus explodes and forms a cloud. Anyone within a radius of 150 metres is done for.”
That is just some Al Jazeera bullshit, right. Anybody who knows how to work Photoshop could have helped doctor that evidence together. Right?
