The US Used Chemical Weapons in Iraq - And Then Lied About It — by George Monbiot
Did US troops use chemical weapons in Falluja? The answer is yes. The proof is not to be found in the documentary broadcast on Italian TV last week, which has generated gigabytes of hype on the internet. It's a turkey, whose evidence that white phosphorus was fired at Iraqi troops is flimsy and circumstantial. But the bloggers debating it found the smoking gun. [...]
Click here for the full Guardian article (15 Nov 05).
Click here for the full Guardian article (15 Nov 05).
posted by Sean M. Madden at
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Absolutley shocking! Yet the people who have brought us this low will arrogantly continue their swagger of death.
How long will we tolerate leaders whose path is bloodshed, crawling to corporate power and deceit on a grand scale.
Turbulent Cleric,
Thank you for your recent comments.
Yesterday, I began to write a response to your "big question" from the comment you left to my article, Beyond Good and Evil: The Dichotomization of Politics and Our Own Minds, but ended up writing a piece which is of blog-posting length. So, I shall post this when it is ready.
In the meantime, as I think you know, I share your frustration that our corrupt "leaders" remain in power within our respective (US/UK) governments.
I'm presently reading Thomas Paine's Rights of Man, written (in 1790) in support of the French Revolution. He believed that the French people properly responded to the tyranny and corruption of the entire system and machinations of government -- not in response to Louis XVI's relatively moderate rule -- which he saw as beyond repair.
This, I believe, is the point we have reached in the US and Britain, whereby our governments are so utterly devoid of legitimacy, and our laws so thoroughly corrupted, that we can no longer stand on precedent. Innovation is required.
P.S.
My wife, daughter and I were in Salcombe, Devon this past weekend, celebrating my father-in-law's sixtieth birthday.
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