[KantianBurke]

CNN ran a story that during the Vietnam War, special forces used nerve gas agents on US defectors in the jungles of Laos I think. Illbay?

[MindBender26]

CNN paid $13,000,000 to General Singlaub and others defamed in story inorder to settle case.

[U S Army EOD]

They made all that up. I was in Saigon when the "peace" treaty was signed in 1973. You couldn't see the end of the line of American deserters turning themselves in. Those cowards didn't hide in the jungle, they stayed in the cities.

[Illbay]

You're correct. But there was no credible evidence whatsoever that any such thing had occurred, and Arnett "resigned" (i.e. he didn't "jump," he was "pushed").

Just like the fantasies that Arnett cooked up on the Iraq TV interview, "Operation Tailwind" was a complete fabrication.

My only problem is that compared to "Tailwind," Arnett's comments to Iraq TV were kid-stuff.

IMO, Helen Thomas makes comments at least that outrageous every time she is called upon by Ari Fleischer in the press briefing or Pres. Bush in the news conferences.