Wednesday, December 01, 2004

"No, We Did Not Drop Any Napalm on Iraqi Targets. That's a Lie. You Can't Print That We Did. What?! Oh, Firebombs? Sure, We Dropped Tons of Them."

During the war, Pentagon spokesmen disputed reports that napalm was being used, saying the Pentagon's stockpile had been destroyed two years ago.

Apparently the spokesmen were drawing a distinction between the terms "firebomb" and "napalm." If reporters had asked about firebombs, officials said yesterday they would have confirmed their use.

What the Marines dropped, the spokesmen said yesterday, were "Mark 77 firebombs." They acknowledged those are incendiary devices with a function "remarkably similar" to napalm weapons.


and my favorite part,

"This additive has significantly less of an impact on the environment," wrote Marine spokesman Col. Michael Daily, in an e-mailed information sheet provided by the Pentagon.


Oh, how very Dr. Strangelove of you.

Do you remember when we were young and innocent, when all we did was pick daisies, run through streams in our bare feet, and laugh heartily at the press conferences of this guy? It seems like only yesterday, doesn't it? Good times, good times.

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