Progressive Minds

At first we didn't use white phosphorous in Iraq, and then we did!

Sounds like the Bush administration hard at work covering up its lies.

After denying intial reports, the Pentagon now admits that the United States military did indeed use white phosphorous in Iraq.

The Pentagon admits using white phosphorous against 'insurgents' in Iraq, but denies a news report on Italian televisionw which said the U.S. military also used the substance against Iraqi civilians.

http://www.dawn.com/2005/11/17/top13.htm

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20051116/ap_on_go_ca_st_pe/iraq_white_phosphorous_4

As the old saying goes "The more things change...the more they stay the same."

Newly declassified documents show that Richard Nixon purposefully and knowingly deceived the America public on Cambodia, even after his "secret" war there became known.

In referene to the situation in Cambodia, Nixon told White House aides "Publicly, we say one thing.  Actually, we do another."

According to an Associated Press article:

"In a memo from the meeting marked "Eyes Only, Top Secret Sensitive," Nixon told his military men to continue doing what was necessary in Cambodia, but to say for public consumption that the United States was merely providing support to South Vietnamese forces when necessary to protect U.S. troops.

"That is what we will say publicly," he asserted. "But now, let's talk about what we will actually do."

He instructed: "I want you to put the air in there and not spare the horses. Do not withdraw for domestic reasons but only for military reasons."

Hmmm....sounds like George Bush has more in common with Richard Nixon that he realizes. 

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20051116/ap_on_re_us/nixon_papers