Who was it who said, "truth is the first casualty in war"? Why do people keep posting all this stuff? It is like the one Doug posted a while ago, from Fox News about how Sadaam was making all the volunteers ("human shields") guard military sites and not schools and hospitals. I expressed doubts, and Doug said, rather airily, that other sources must have repeated the story since. So the Wall Street Journal did, later state, that some people had left after being told to occupy "water filtration plaints, electric generation plants, and oil refineries." Those aren't military targets. Destroying parts of the infrastructure like water filtration plants and electric generators hits civilians as directly as hitting their homes. Actually, I think better of the American military than to think they would target water filtration plants, or electric generation plants, or even (in this context) oil refineries.

I'm sure that whenever this is over, it will be possible to discover all kinds of horrible crimes Sadaam committed, so we can learn about it from reliable sources - not Fox News. And I am sure that there will also be information in Iraq's archives about the part Dick Cheney and GBS senior plained in all this, way back in the 1980's.

What do you bet we never see any of that information?

Please note Kat's thread about the false statements in Powell's U.N. Address.