Hey, did you hear about that documentary that supposedly presents proof that theUSMil used chemical weapons in Iraq?
No?
Come on, it was called Fallujah: The Hidden Massacre. Are you sure you didn't see it?
Well, it was on TV...
Of course, it was on Italian TV.
The good news is that thanks to the Internet, this doesn't have to stop you from learning more about it or even downloading it for yourself and watching it.
The thing that bugs me is this: Why wasn't this in the mainstream US news?
I first heard about it on the DemocracyNow.org podcast ([http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=05/11/08/1516227|a transcript of the story is available] at DemocracyNow.org) but later read about it in [http://imdb.com/news/sb/2005-11-10#tv3|a post] at IMDB.com's Studio Briefing.
After all, this is kind of big news. Now, on the DO podcast, they had a USMil spokesman on who claimed the use of the particular type of chemweap used was legal. Which may be literally true--but is it morally right even if it is legal?
Ultimately, that is the question. This stuff supposedly burns through flesh to the bone. The Italian docu has at least one USGI who says he knows for a fact that this chemweap was used on people. There are plenty of others who back up his claim, too. [http://thepete.com/riverbend-blogs-on-fallujah/|This isn't the first time the US using chemweaps has come up, either.]
Regardless, the good news is that you can download the documentary in question and decide for yourself if it shows evidence of the USMil breaking the law or American morals. RaiTVNews.Rai.it has [http://www.rainews24.rai.it/ran24/inchiesta/video/fallujah_ING.wmv|made the docu available for download] in WMV format, unfortunately. I'm DLing it now and will blog on it when I have a chance to watch it. It looks like it's in English, too, which will be nice. Be warned--it's supposedly quite graphic.
But hey, if we don't have the stomach to look at what our government's military is doing to people, doesn't that say something right there?
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