WILLY PETE: THE PLOT GETS THICKER?

My, my, my. Seems like the Pentagon considers white phosphorous a chemical weapon. But only when they thought Saddam was using it. Could this be why the U.S. government denied using it for anything other than illumination purposes in Fallujah?

http://thinkprogress.org/2005/11/21/phosphorus-chemical/

Ah, Kolb. I should be jaded when I find out that yet another "damning" quote from you and your sources turns out to be dishonestly quoted. Is Think Progress truly stupid enough to think people aren't going to read the actual document you selectively quote, or are they hoping people are stupid enough to swallow what they say as the whole truth?

Let's post the entire paragraph where the Pentagon "defined" WP as a chemical weapon.

"THE WP CHEMICAL WAS DELIVERED BY ARTILLERY ROUNDS AND HELICOPTER GUNSHIPS (NO FURTHER INFORMATION AT THIS TIME). APPARENTLY, THIS TIME IRAQ DID NOT USE NERVE GAS AS THEY DID IN 1988, IN HALABJA (GEOCOORD:3511N/04559E), IRAQ, BECAUSE THEY WERE AFRAID OF POSSIBLE RETALIATION FROM THE UNITED STATES (U.S.) LED COALITION. THESE REPORTS OF POSSIBLE WP CHEMICAL WEAPON ATTACKS SPREAD QUICKLY AMONG THE KURDISH POPULACE IN ERBIL AND DOHUK. AS A RESULT, HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS OF KURDS FLED FROM THESE TWO AREAS AND CROSSED THE IRAQI BORDER INTO TURKEY. IN RESPONSE TO THIS, TURKISH AUTHORITIES ESTABLISHED SEVERAL REFUGEE CENTERS ALONG THE TURKISH-IRAQI BORDER."

Yep, when you use WP shells to make it look like you're using nerve gas again, you're using it "as a chemical weapon" ... but it's still not a chemical weapon. Oops. (Why yes, the part in bold was cut from Think Progress's article. Gosh, I wonder why?)

More commentary on this:
Heh.

The actual document.

Keep up the good work, Kolb. Post yet another "ingenious" bit of "evidence" and I'm sure people will find the originals and show the parts you and the group you're quoting left out.

Ooo. Someone looking a bit deeper into it notes what the Pentagon actual document really is:

A transcript of a phone call about the attack between two Kurdish brothers.

Hmm.

Ooo. Someone looking a bit deeper into it notes what the Pentagon actual document really is:

A transcript of a phone call about the attack between two Kurdish brothers.

Hmm.

Typepad's trackbacks are still disfunctional...

http://alanwoody.blogs.com/woodys_news_views
/2005/11/chris_matthews_.html

Still getting the dreaded "Pinging too Fast" error on a trackback attempt.

you're using it "as a chemical weapon" ... but it's still not a chemical weapon

It all depends on what "is" is. But no matter. We're Republicans, and we only care if you lie about sex.

The throttling error occurs when you have more than 10 pings in an hour or 50 pings in a day, unless it's overridden in the configuration file.

We boosted ours to 50 and 500 and the problem went away.

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I got the same error in my log - it says "HTTP error 403: Throttled."

I looked it up and found this thread, which seems to be relevant:

http://www.sixapart.com/movabletype/forums/lofiversion/index.php/t45124.html

Kenyan opposition leaders say they will continue to hold rallies demanding new elections, despite a government ban.

Kenyan opposition leaders say they will continue to hold rallies demanding new elections, despite a government ban.