(Note to literalists: the Watched column presently contains only a smattering of 'warblogs' because the facilitator of the template-change--Dr. Menlo--is not very familiar with them, and will be adding more as they are sent to him. Also, this blog may contain areas of allusion, satire, subtext, context and possibly even a dash of the surreal: wannabe lit-crits beware.)
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WARBLOGGER WATCH
Monday, March 17, 2003
I'm gowing confused here. According to variouswarbloggers, depleted uranium, when dropped on the resident towelheads of Iraq, is a not-so-bad thing. The risks of exposure are overblown by "propagandists" who, really, are "beneath contempt."
Providing a synthesis of the above is Army Colonel James Naughton. A recent VOA piece reported the Administration line that DU ammunition "does not pose a health hazard." Naughton was quoted saying that among the critics urging the Pentagon to discontinue the use of DU ammunitions are - shock and awe - Iraqis ! Resorting to the language of the schoolyard, Naughton poses and then answers the rhetorical question, "Why do they want it [DU] to go away? They want it to go away because we kicked the crap out of them."
A powerful analysis of a problem of considerable moral complexity. Mark Steyn and Lileks couldn't have put it so crisply.
To be fair, I think Doug Rokke's physician would agree that Rokke, too, had the crap kicked out of him. posted by Anonymous9:03 AM
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WBW: Keeping track of the war exhortations of the warbloggers.