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Al-Qaeda Chief In Iraq: Captured, Killed, Never Actually Existed, Re-Captured, Now Killed Again
Ludicrous story of terrorist admitted to be a “fictional character” by U.S. officials
by Steve Watson
U.S. and Iraqi officials have today announced that two “Al-Qaeda in Iraq” leaders have been killed in an air strike carried out by American troops. A major flaw in the story that seems to have been overlooked, is that both of the men have already been reported captured and killed on several occasions, with U.S. officials also having previously declared one of them a “fictional character” that was invented by the other!
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At least it's an improvement over the nightly body count propaganda that we got during the Vietnam debacle.
ReplyDeleteIf it's dead, it's Charlie.
ReplyDeleteIf a civilian is killed, we retroactively make that person a threat.
The language has certainly graduated somewhat...