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Monday, November 21, 2005 12:00 AM

Slipping and sliding on white phosphorus in Fallujah

After an initial denial, the Pentagon now acknowledges that troops used the chemical on insurgents -- and can't rule out contact with civilians.
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  • Monday, November 21, 2005 07:42 AM

    Correction

    Sorry. That should read, "the structural institutionalization of deception."

    It would be nice to have a system where such errors could be corrected by editing the original. Although, that might just allow unscrupulous posters to rewrite history ;-).

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