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Thursday, November 17, 2005
Conventional Terror...
It sat on my PC desktop for five days http://www.rainews24.rai.it/ran24/inchiesta/video/fallujah_ING.wmv
<...> Last year I blogged about Falloojeh and said:
“There is talk of the use of cluster bombs and other forbidden weaponry.” < http://riverbendblog.blogspot.com/2004_11_01_riverbendblog_archive.html#110003558181121517 >
I was immediately attacked with a barrage of emails from Americans telling me I was a liar and that there was no proof and that there was no way Americans would ever do something so appalling! I wonder how those same people justify this now. Are they shocked? Or do they tell themselves that Iraqis aren’t people? Or are they simply in denial?
The Pentagon spokesman recently said:
"It's part of our conventional-weapons inventory and we use it like we use any other conventional weapon,"
This war has redefined ‘conventional’. It has taken atrocity to another level. Everything we learned before has become obsolete. ‘Conventional’ has become synonymous with horrifying. Conventional weapons are those that eat away the skin in a white blaze; conventional interrogation methods are like those practiced in Abu Ghraib and other occupation prisons…
Quite simply… conventional terror. <...>
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