{"id":19142,"date":"2010-05-16T10:24:55","date_gmt":"2010-05-16T15:24:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=19142"},"modified":"2010-05-16T10:24:55","modified_gmt":"2010-05-16T15:24:55","slug":"cnn-charges-us-troops-used-chemicals-in-fallujah","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=19142","title":{"rendered":"CNN charges US troops used chemicals in Fallujah"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Undaunted by the fact that they had been burned in their last attempt to charge the US with using chemical weapons in a war, namely the <a href=\"http:\/\/edition.cnn.com\/US\/9807\/02\/tailwind.johnson\/\">&#8220;Operation Tailwind&#8221; story<\/a>, CNN is charging that US troops used chemical weapons in their Fallujah operations in 2004;<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"500\" height=\"374\" classid=\"clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000\" id=\"ep\"><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"transparent\" \/><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/i.cdn.turner.com\/cnn\/.element\/apps\/cvp\/3.0\/swf\/cnn_416x234_embed.swf?context=embed&#038;videoId=world\/2010\/05\/10\/ctw.jamjoom.falluja.birth.defects.cnn\" \/><param name=\"bgcolor\" value=\"#000000\" \/><embed src=\"http:\/\/i.cdn.turner.com\/cnn\/.element\/apps\/cvp\/3.0\/swf\/cnn_416x234_embed.swf?context=embed&#038;videoId=world\/2010\/05\/10\/ctw.jamjoom.falluja.birth.defects.cnn\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" bgcolor=\"#000000\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" width=\"500\" wmode=\"transparent\" height=\"374\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p>Of course, there is no proof, just Fallujah residents complaining of the number of birth defects. Huffington Post claims the lack of evidence is proof that it happened;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Lawyers representing the families have sued the British government for complicity in the alleged war crimes. But Iraq&#8217;s deputy minister of health tells CNN there isn&#8217;t enough evidence to prove causality, and in any case, the U.S. boycott of the International Criminal Court makes direct prosecution of the case unlikely, as do the nation&#8217;s federal immunity laws.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Of course, no disgruntled soldiers or Marines have come forward to mention their involvement &#8211; the chemical weapons aren&#8217;t fired by generals or DoD civilians. KBR doesn&#8217;t have a chemical weapon capability last time I checked. Of course, any rational thoughts might disturb the gentle balance of the whole story.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Undaunted by the fact that they had been burned in their last attempt to charge the &hellip; <a title=\"CNN charges US troops used chemicals in Fallujah\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=19142\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">CNN charges US troops used chemicals in Fallujah<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19142","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-antiwar-crowd","category-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19142","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19142"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19142\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19142"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19142"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19142"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}