DarkObserver, 7. April 2003 um 20:58:42 MESZ

Worth a chuckle

Just now on CNNI, there's a reporter interviewing a U.S. general named "Benjamin Freakly" lol His troops are investigating 2 suspected chemical weapons sites, with inconclusive results so far.

I gotta give it to Gen. FREAKLY, that he's trying to maintain an objective standpoint, or so it seems, because every time the reporter wants to jump to conclusions about "nerve agents", he reminds him that the tests showed pesticides not nerve agents. The place is obviously some farming compound, where this stuff is expected to be found.

Anyway, I just found his name so funny that I had to write this.

 
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DarkObserver, 26. März 2003 um 18:59:22 MEZ

Snafus abound

The situation in Iraq is getting worse and worse. For some reason U.S. airstrikes have been hitting more civilian areas of Baghdad since Sunday. No comment so far on this from the Pentagon or the White House.

An Iraqi counter-offensive is underway it seems. Hundreds have already died in the battle for Basra and Nadschaf. Lots of them members of the Allied Forces, too.

This war is exactly turning into the sort of fucked-up mess critics like myself have foretold.

I wish, we'd been wrong...

 
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DarkObserver, 23. März 2003 um 18:39:21 MEZ

Iraq War: Day 4

Okay, let's see:

• Coalition forces busy with killing each other: a.) Friendly fire incident (Americans shooting down a British aircraft) b.) Two British helicopters colliding c.) An American soldier going bananas with grenades, killing one of his comrades, wounding several others d.) Oh yeah: American-led troups shoot dead a British news reporter

Hell knows what other glitches may be happening, that we'll never know of

• Some American soldiers captured by enemy forces and shown on Iraqi TV. When Donald Rumsfeld is spontaneously confronted with these images on CBS, he suddenly remembers the Geneva Convention for POWs (Prisoners of War) Uh-huh. At the the same time, the US is denying the guys they're holding in Guantanamo Bay -captured during what they called themselves the "WAR on Terror"- this exact same status of POWs. Or what about the intimidating pictures of Iraqi POWs shown yesterday by American TV? Talk about double-standards...

• Attention US readers: Bodies of several dead American soldiers could be seen on Iraqi TV! This footage is being withheld from American audiences by almost all American TV stations. I'm in Germany and our news is not censored, so believe me, it's true, I saw them!

• Umm Qasr in the South of Iraq, is NOT totally under control of coalition forces, besides earlier statements claiming the contrary

• Turkish troups may or may not have entered Northern Iraq, complicating things, if they did. Could start a war between the Kurds and Turkey. What would the US do then? Who would they side with?

• Bombing of Baghdad continues, civilian casualties are on the rise besides the so-called "hightly targeted" strikes

• The march towards Baghdad has gotten stalled, meeting fierce resistance, much more than expected. Bush still sees "objectives accomplished", though. Yeah, right. Go have a drink, dude.

War is no walk in the park and it's time that more Americans began to see through the veil of propaganda woven in recent weeks!

 
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