SHOULDN'T HAVE STOPPED WITH NICOLA CALIPARI:

White Phosphorus Charges Are Burning Lies (Michael Fumento, Nov 24, 2005, Townhall)

An article in the March-April 2005 issue of Field Artillery explicitly details the use of WP during the battle.

Yet it's being treated as a major new revelation because of an Italian documentary now available on the Internet titled "Fallujah: The Hidden Massacre." It’s as if the use of WP necessarily involves a massacre or as if there haven't been awful massacres in recent years using nothing but machetes and clubs.

Further, there’s no proof of any wrongdoing in the video itself. Rather it relies on “explanations” exclusively from the narrator and other anti-war zealots.

This includes the infamous Giuliana Sgrena, the reporter for the Italian Communist Party newspaper Il Manifesto, allegedly seized by courteous kidnappers. In turn for her release they conveniently demanded what she had also been demanding, Italy’s withdrawal from the war. Her articles are so viciously anti-American they’d make Al Jazeera blush.

In case you were wondering why -- besides the cash transfer to the terrorists -- she was released.

Posted by Orrin Judd at November 23, 2005 11:59 PM