We’ll start with the latest from the Azovstal complex in Mariupol and then come back to Mariupol after the jump. The latest reporting, which is now between four and seven hours old, is that the Azov Regiment and the 36th Separate Marine Brigade are still holding and successfully defending the Azovstal complex in Mariupol. Early …
I Must Disagree
There are a number of things I disagree with Soonergrunt regarding his drone post yesterday, starting with what I considered a rather condescending title: “Sharpened Pencils or W-88s–when you really have to kill somebody, which is less impolite?” This reminds me of the exceedingly idiotic debates during the Iraq war about the use of White …
Devil Weed
The global war on drugs, Afghanistan edition: “Canadian troops fighting Taliban militants in Afghanistan have stumbled across an unexpected and potent enemy — almost impenetrable forests of marijuana plants 10 feet tall.” The challenge is that marijuana plants absorb energy, heat very readily. It’s very difficult to penetrate with thermal devices. … And as a …
About Damned Time
The military is FINALLY defending itself in regards to WP: The United States’ most senior general has defended the use of weapons containing white phosphorus in Iraq. General Peter Pace said that such munitions were a “legitimate tool of the military”, used to illuminate targets and create smokescreens. Two weeks ago, the US admitted using …
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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