and thanks in large part to bloggers. Daily Kos is reporting on a Pentagon briefing paper dug up by Thing Progress. It’s from 1995. It speaks for itself: IRAQ’S POSSIBLE EMPLOYMENT OF PHOSPHOROUS CHEMICAL WEAPONS — IN LATE FEBRUARY 1991, FOLLOWING THE COALITION FORCES’ OVERWHELMING VICTORY OVER IRAQ, KURDISH REBELS STEPPED UP THEIRSTRUGGLE AGAINST IRAQI …
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Canadian corporations reverse stance on Kyoto? Replublicans abandon ANWR
Sorry for the long tittle… I’m still very skeptical… but at least now they’re saying what can be termed as the “right things”. From the CBC yesterday: In a letter to the Prime Minister, the heads of Alcan, Bombardier, Shell Canada, Falconbridge, Home Depot Canada and Desjardins Group, among others, said Canada needs a 50-year …
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Side by side chemical comparison
A Pentagon spokesman, Lt Col Barry Venable, confirmed to the BBC the US had used white phosphorus “as an incendiary weapon against enemy combatants” – though not against civilians, he said. Lets compare, shall we? (click the image for a larger version) I’m sorry I couldn’t get any more recent photos… but “unfortunately” the last …