Monday, August 11, 2008

Pot, Kettle, Shades of Gray

You really have to wonder at the gullibility of the masses. This story is from that bastion of credibility The Associated Press. The actual article can be read at Raw Story. Quotes from the article in question are blocked and in italics.
WASHINGTON -- Russia's use of overwhelming military force against Georgia, including strategic bombers and ballistic missiles, is disproportionate to any threat from the former Soviet state and could escalate tensions in the volatile region, a senior U.S. official said Saturday.
If we are going to talk about disproportionate force in war then we can't really rely on the Associated Press because to them proportionality doesn't seem to apply to the West and it's partners. An obvious example being The Highway of Death when Iraqi soldiers and civilians where massacred whilst attempting to comply with UN resolution 660 to leave Kuwait. Was this a proportional war crime? Only in the Western Media can war crimes be considered proportional events.

Just head on over to rawstory.com and you will see that the article practically picks itself apart

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