“Politics is war without bloodshed while war is politics with bloodshed.” ~Mao Tse Tung (1893-1976) Below is an excerpt from an interesting NYT article revealing the political influence on reporting and distortion of facts during OIF. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Mr. Lampier, then a captain commanding the 756th Explosive Ordnance Disposal Company, was with the first to arrive. “At first we saw three,” he said. Then it wasn’t three. It was 30. Then it wasn’t 30. It was 300. It went up from there. The rockets appeared to have been buried before American airstrikes in 1991, he said. Many were empty. Others still contained sarin. Full-up sloshers, he said. At least 38 techs worked for weeks, excavating rockets, crushing many of them and then reburying them and covering them with concrete. Mr. Lampier said he was told to describe the work in blandly bureaucratic terms: Nothing of significance. With this discovery, the American military had found more than 3,000 pieces of chemical ordnance and knew that many were still dangerous. The military did not disclose this as the Senate worked; instead, it stood by data from the Army’s National Ground Intelligence Center that it had declassified in late June, leading the Senate to publish an inaccurate report.
Posted on: Wed, 15 Oct 2014 12:05:26 +0000
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