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STRATCOM (THE REAL ONE) DENIES CIVILIAN DEATHS, FIGHTS REALITY

BBC carrying this claim of no deaths of civilian non-combatants in mosque attack, where two 500-pound bombs were dropped from a jet fighter plane:

Iraqi witnesses say about 40 Iraqis were killed in the strike, but US Central Command said only one “anti-coalition force member” had died and there were no civilian casualties.

Here’s what […]

16 children, 8 women killed in separate Fallujah attack Tuesday

A friend sent me this article from the AP wire, verbatim. Compare it on Thursday with what was used in your local paper. Keep in mind that the dateline means that some information is newer than your local paper’s deadline. There were 11 versions of the story, revised as the day progressed, however the following […]

Kimmitt confirms F-16 bombed the mosque

at briefing today; both missiles and a bomb were used.

From AP:

Marines waged a six-hour battle around the mosque with the militants holed up inside before a Cobra helicopter fired a Hellfire® missile at the base of its minaret, and an F-16 dropped the bomb, said Marine Lt. Col. Brennan Byrne.

“It is a […]

Shi’ite Army now controls Kut, Karbala, Kufa, Najaf

Large demonstrations in Northern towns like Mosul; Ukrainians driven out of Kut entirely by al-Mahdi Army. In Fallujah, “Sixteen children and eight women were reported killed when warplanes struck four houses late Tuesday, said Hatem Samir, a Fallujah Hospital official.” -AP

Marines hit full mosque with THREE MISSILES

AP-IRAQ MOSQUE ATTACK Witnesses: U.S. rockets hit Fallujah mosque complex, killing about 40 people

FALLUJAH, Iraq (AP) – A U.S. helicopter fired three missiles at a mosque compound in the city of Fallujah on Wednesday, killing about 40 people as American forces battled Sunni insurgents, witnesses said.

Cars ferried bodies from the scene, though there […]

Important – please don’t link rant-o-rama

Rant-o-rama has been set up for experimental purposes only and will move some time in the near future to a new location. When that happens, the old address will be set to redirect for some time. Until that happens, please don’t post the URL on web pages, chat forums, etc. anywhere. SPONSON will let you […]

US making situation much worse: professor

Check out this interview on the CNN web site.

Applause piped in for Bush at season opener

This is from a column in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch.

” A somewhat hostile crowd complained mightily about the problems the presidential motorcade caused with regular fans trying to get into the park. A Cards employee tipped moi that the team was so concerned about Bush being booed that they piped in fake applause when […]

“The Reality is Nothing Like You See on Television”

This Guardian article gives us the reassuring news that GOP political campaign veterans are running the press office of the U.S.-led coalition in Iraq. In tribute to the idiocy of these Goebbels-like propagandists, rant-o-rama is hereby temporarily renamed STRATCOM.

BBC: Sadr militiamen occupy governor’s office in Basra

“I haven’t seen a British presence here at all,” she said

“There are certainly a lot of guns around – but I haven’t seen any of them being fired yet,” Luthra added.