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Thursday, April 24, 2003
That My Lai cover-up experience pays off.
Colin Powell, a man that many Americans used to admire, seems to be covering up for another military assault on civilians:
Secretary of State Colin L. Powell has written a letter to the Spanish foreign minister defending the shelling of the main hotel for journalists in Baghdad that killed two cameramen, including one from Spain, on April 8.
"Our review of the April 8 incident indicates that the use of force was justified and the amount of force was proportionate to the threat against United States forces," Mr. Powell wrote in the letter, dated April 21 and addressed to Ana Palacio, Spain's foreign minister.
[snip]
Repeating that initial explanation, Mr. Powell said a United States tank fired on the hotel in response to "hostile fire appearing to come from a location later identified as the Palestine Hotel."
Journalists who were at the hotel said that they did not hear gunshots coming from the hotel.
The commander of the unit that fired the shell was quoted this week by Le Nouvel Observateur, a French magazine, as saying his tank team acted after spotting the sun's reflection on binoculars believed to have been in the hands of an Iraqi on the hotel's roof. The magazine quoted the commander, Capt. Philip Wolford, as saying he authorized the attack because the team believed that whoever was holding the binoculars was directing Iraqi fire. He also reportedly said that he did not know at the time that the hotel housed journalists.
Lou Fintor, a spokesman for the State Department, said the review that Mr. Powell referred to in his letter was "based on our intelligence, which we never comment on."
You would think they would at least make an effort to get their stories straight.
Here's some info on Powell and My Lai. More here. Bet you didn't know that.
He's always been a "good little soldier".
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