From: "Robert Comer" 

>I have no idea if the report is true,

I hope not, but I expect we'll hear something if it is.

>but the Republican spin
> machine's strategy is to pre-empt bad news, so the talking points re
> found WMD went out to the faithful, who dutifully parrot them.

I'm not so sure it's just a response to that -- Bush's showing in South
America may have the faithful worried too.

--
Bob Comer


"John Cuccia"  wrote in message
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>I have no idea if the report is true, but the Republican spin
> machine's strategy is to pre-empt bad news, so the talking points re
> found WMD went out to the faithful, who dutifully parrot them.
>
> On Tue, 8 Nov 2005 10:21:54 -0500, "Robert Comer"
>  wrote:
>
>>Wow.
>>
>>--
>>Bob Comer
>>
>>
>>"John Cuccia"  wrote in message
>>news:bof1n1p9mvod2qhs7e5trpqvvmsl9d8v59{at}4ax.com...
>>> On Tue, 8 Nov 2005 10:01:08 -0500, "Robert Comer"
>>>  wrote:
>>>
>>>>Simple, nobody has verified the truth of the weapons.
>>>
>>>
>>> Bush supporters don't need truth, they only need a counterpoint to the
>>> following report.
>>>
>>> http://news.independent.co.uk/world/middle_east/article325560.ece
>>> 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."
>>>
>>> Photographs on the website of RaiTG24, the broadcaster's 24-hours news
>>> channel, www.rainews24.it, show exactly what the former soldier means.
>>> Provided by the Studies Centre of Human Rights in Fallujah, dozens of
>>> high-quality, colour close-ups show bodies of Fallujah residents, some
>>> still in their beds, whose clothes remain largely intact but whose
>>> skin has been dissolved or caramelised or turned the consistency of
>>> leather by the shells.
>>>
>>

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