That Bloody phosphore of yours

With little development in the USA, this week is been unveiled that US forces counter-attacked with Phosphore bombs in Falluja, during Muqtada Al-Sadr's open revolt. Such weapons are forbidden by the Geneva Convention that regulates the use of chemical weapons. Plus, we had to learn this from the Italian state television, the RAI.

This is another evident sign that, if you have to look for criticism, better think twice before echoeing a foreigner's view. When it comes to news, it is rather unfortunate that a major newspaper like the Washington Post don't pay any attention to it in their pages, and it's been the case with this new so-called scandal that made left-wingers, anti-americans and all that kind of mob come together in the repulse to the Iraq war.

I'd even say, and I can't blame the public opinion for not backing me up, that the view of patriotic american media is getting obsolete. We've seen it this week in California with the rejection of most of the bills Governor Schwartzenegger -Ah! Can anyone spell it right?- tried to pass. We've seem it when the only victory for the Republican Party this week is Michael Bloomberg, a "democrat in Republican dresses".

To censor, like it's been done, the italian documentary and treat it as non-serious information , As it showed bodies burnt out by phosphore seems to me illogical in a free society. I'll repeat tirelessly the idea that the people have the right to know. But if they don't, believe me, they're going to grow tired of a government that keeps burrying information. It's bad, definitely, to know such things have happened, but it's way worse to hide them under the carpet pretending they don't exist.

And that is because problems tend to surface...

Miguel Vinuesa