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April 27, 2008
Fallujah per Wikipedia
In case you're ever tempted to rely on Wikipedia for information, this is what it has to say about American forces clearing terrorists out of Fallujah:
During the Second Battle of Fallujah, US forces cut off water and electricity to the city of 600,000 people. US forces used Chemical weapons against people of Fallujah. US air strikes have destroyed hospitals and medical centres. The US took over the Fallujah General Hospital and converted to a military hospital, thus denying the citizens of Fallujah any health care service. On 09 November 2004, US warplanes attacked the Nazzal Emergency Hospital in the centre of the city and completely destroyed it. Thirty-five patients were killed, including five children under the ages of 10 years. According to Amnesty International, "20 Iraqi medical staff [doctors and nurses] and dozens of other civilians were killed when a missile hit a Fallujah clinic on 09 November 2004". The air strike also destroyed the hospital medical supplies warehouse.
As of today, the exact number of civilians killed by the US assault on Fallujah is not known. According to the Allawi's government, more than 100,000 Iraqis have been killed and over 200,000 wounded and 200,000 were fled from the city. US forces used internationally banned weapons such as napalm and poison gas, phosphorous weapons and jet fuel, which makes the human body melt, to attack the city, given the high rate of civilian casualties.
Napalm and other chemical weapons were used heavily in the Jolan district of Fallujah. a district inhabited by half the inhabiters of the city.
The Iraqi Red Crescent Society was prevented by US forces from entering the city to provide supplies to the wounded civilians, and called the health conditions in and around Fallujah "catastrophic". Eyewitnesses say most of the victims are civilians, including, women, children, and unarmed men between the ages of 14-60 years old, who were prevented from leaving the city before the US onslaught. Furthermore, many children have died as a result of starvation, dehydration and outbreaks of diarrhoeal infections.
It could not be determined whether John Kerry was the author.
Rather than waste time disputing this lunacy point by point, I'll just limit my response to: Yeah, right.
On a tip from heckrulz.
Posted by Van Helsing at April 27, 2008 8:21 PM
Comments
John Kerry? Lurch couldn't write even that well if his life depended on it.
No, this was the work of a committed, red-to-the-core Communist Hate-America Code Pinker, it would appear -- one-sided, made-up and/or exaggerated "facts," blame America first; no mention of the terrorists using women and children as human shields (well-documented in all areas in which they operate); no mention of terrorist atrocities (I know, like blacks cannot be "racist," terrorists -- excuse me, "freedom fighters" -- cannot commit atrocities). Etc., ad infinitum.
The basic problem with Wiki: any Moonbat with a grievance can submit pure BS and they'll put it on their website as the gospel truth.
We all know what should have happened at Fallujah the first time around, but we wimped-out and had to go back in again to do it right the second time. Same with Mookie al-Sadr, who's still alive and kicking (why this is is beyond my meager comprehension, but wussing-out at the wrong time, yet again, does come to mind).
Posted by: jc14 at April 27, 2008 8:42 PM
Moonbat? Look at the grammar... I'll give you 12-1 odds that at least one of the authors' names is Mohammed. That said, it's too bad that no one has taken up the issue of this BS with Wikipedia. Or have they?
Posted by: hiram at April 27, 2008 8:57 PM
Last I looked, it's gone.
Moonbats can troll Wikipeida, but the very un-Dhimmified moderators always throw the troll dung back off the bridge.
Just look at their Motoons.
Posted by: BURNING HOT at April 27, 2008 11:24 PM
meanwhile here are some facts about how "reconstruction" of Iraq is really going:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080428/ap_on_go_ca_st_pe/iraq_reconstruction;_ylt=AsID5e7QnlwrRWc4UhtScc2s0NUE
Posted by: Anonymous at April 28, 2008 1:12 AM
Anon@1:12am,
Of 47,321 contracts, 855 were terminated before completion. I'd call a failure rate of less than 2.5% in a war zone pretty good performance.
Posted by: steven at April 28, 2008 2:46 AM
Oh, and of the 855, only 112 were for poor performance by the contractor.
Posted by: steven at April 28, 2008 2:56 AM
"In addition, the audit said many reconstruction projects were being described as complete or otherwise successful when they were not."
apparently, you only want read what you want to believe!
Posted by: Anonymous at April 28, 2008 3:54 AM
you only read what you want to believe, that is...
Posted by: Anonymous at April 28, 2008 3:56 AM
If only our government schools were as successful as Iraq reconstruction projects. There'd be a lot fewer trolling idiots.
As for wikipedia, as a source for info on pop culture (like an episode-by-episode synopsis of 'The Office') it's a decent resource. Anything else... not so much.
Posted by: V the K at April 28, 2008 5:16 AM
Anon@3:54am
If that more than doubles the failure rate to 5% (doubtful) it's still pretty good performance in a war zone.
As a right winger I'm surprised it isn't a lot higher. It is the federal government after all.
We're always decrying government waste, inefficiency and corruption so we expect the government to be pretty bad at this sort of thing.
That's why we don't want to turn our health care system over to them.
Posted by: steven at April 28, 2008 12:14 PM
OK, I give up.
I searched every nook and cranny of Amnesty International and could not find one iota of evidence pertaining to this:
According to Amnesty International, "20 Iraqi medical staff [doctors and nurses] and dozens of other civilians were killed when a missile hit a Fallujah clinic on 09 November 2004". The air strike also destroyed the hospital medical supplies warehouse.
I say John Kerry could have done better than this looks more like a amateur with a yen for the British
spelling of center (centre)...but who knows, maybe Obama had one of his cronies submit it to Wiki-bad-pedia.
Posted by: Norm at April 28, 2008 2:11 PM
If you want to see something stupid... this google video says Hidden Massacre at Fallujah... but it is all stuff from Viet Nam. How stupid are people? Don't answer that... I don't wanna know!
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-1134673789364675735
Posted by: HoosierArmyMom at April 28, 2008 2:58 PM
Are we to assume that this is another story that is:
Fake, lying, mean-spirited and giving aid to the enemy in time of war, but "accurate".
hhocccck, SPIT!
Posted by: KHarn at April 28, 2008 3:29 PM
