Oh Please, whatever powers may be, DON'T let this be true...

Daily Kos is reporting that a recent report on Italian TV purports to prove that US forces dropped chemical weapons on the town of Fallujah, indiscriminantly hitting civilians as well as military targets.

If this turns out to be true (and I still pray that it does not), we will have lost the last shred of moral superiority we may once have had over Saddam Hussein.

Because remember, the strongest argument that's been made against him is that he was a dictator who tortured his own people and used chemical weapons on some of them.

Well, how can we, with any kind of straight face, charge him with these crimes when we, in his place, found exactly the same tactics necessary and/or useful in keeping "the insurgents" down?

How can we call him morally reprehensible and ourselves liberators and the forces of freedom, when Iraqi citizens suffer virtually the same fate from us as they did from him, but with less stability in the region and more IEDs?

The Daily Kos article is here.

Read it, and then keep your fingers crossed that this turns out to be a liberal fabrication, because if it's real, we'll have lost any shred of sympathy in the eyes of the rest of the world the next time we get hit, while simultaneously virtually ensuring that we will be.

Liam.