Felicity Arbuthnot (Pravda) notes the massacres of Falluja:
There were numerous reports during the 2004 April and November-December
US assaults on Fallujah of, in addition to DU - three times unanimously
designated a weapon of mass destruction by UN Sub-Committees - illegal,
experimental chemical weapons and napalm being used in the decimation of
this city of about three hundred thousand people.
After the
second assault, Dr. Saleh Hussein Iswawi of the Fallujah General
Hospital told the BBC, "About sixty to seventy percent of the homes and
buildings are completely crushed and damaged, and not ready to inhabit
... Of the thirty percent still left standing, I don't think there is a
single one that has not been exposed to some damage."
Charred
bodies and those half eaten by stray dogs littered the streets. One
resident, Yasser Sattar said, "This is the crime of the century. Is this
freedom and democracy that they brought to Fallujah?"
What happened in Fallujah was a pogrom.It was by no means the only one.
People leapt into the Euphrates River to put out their burning flesh -
it continued to burn in the water. Dead were described as "caramelized."
Other bodies were described as melting, disintegrating, but their
clothing staying intact, by doctors who have seen much in Iraq in 1991
and since, but never this.
"All forms of nature were wiped out," stated the (pro-American) Iraqi Health Minister, Dr. ash-Shaykhli.
She cites the work of Dahr Jamail so let's note his site. Does it matter what happened in Falluja?
If it does, the left's going to need to reject Dexter Filkins. Dexy's been embraced by all the usual crowd of losers like Glenn Greenwald.
They're unintelligent and they're uninformed. So they spread for Dexy and let him infect them the same way he's infected.
Dexter is a liar. Not just to his ex-wife. He went to Iraq and supposedly slept with many Iraqi women. How was that done, Dexy? No one ever talks about that.
We're all supposed to pretend that there were no bordellos in or near Baghdad. Off Our Backs blew the lid of that lie but others gladly went along with it, creating a new kind of pristine war zone that the world's never seen before where women are not sold into sexual slavery.
Dexy's a pig -- a highly creative pig. He created a scene in Zero Dark Thirty that doesn't exist. That scene led to the attacks on the film. Again, no such scene existed. He's the one who led to the film being attacked and not the CIA. Cute the way that worked. He lied. Usually when he lies he gets paid for it so you do the math on that: CIA benefits from a lie Dexy makes up. Who paid him for that? Who does Dexy work for?
He is trash.
And because he's US government trash, he won a little award for his creative writing about what happened in Falluja during the second battle (November 2004). He was there as an embed and he couldn't get his copy to the paper for eight days because he had to allow the military to vet his copy, he went along with censorship.
And he won an award for it. He got a George Polk award for his lies.
Once upon a time, William L. Laurence received an award too. He lied for the US government when he worked for the New York Times as well and he got a Pulitzer Prize for his lying. He lied about Hiroshima. He lied and denied the reality of what happened. And his lies were accepted as truth. The same way Dexy Filkins rah-rah, feel-good coverage of the massacre of Falluja was.
If the attacks matter, then you damn well better start calling out the people who were there and lied about it.
William Laurence was well paid for his lies. Not just in prizes but liars like Dexy and Laurence usually gets prizes. Laurence was well paid because he double-dipped. He was paid, while working for the New York Times, by the paper and by the US government. Usually, the ones who lie about massacres are double-dipping.
It's over, I'm done writing songs about love
There's a war going on
So I'm holding my gun with a strap and a glove
And I'm writing a song about war
And it goes
Na na na na na na na
I hate the war
Na na na na na na na
I hate the war
Na na na na na na na
I hate the war
Oh oh oh oh
-- "I Hate The War" (written by Greg Goldberg, on The Ballet's Mattachine!)
The number of US service members the Dept of Defense states died in the Iraq War is [PDF format warning] 4488.
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