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You are looking at it through the prism of 20/20 hindsight.

At the time the war ended(Feb 28, 1991) 7 months prior to publication of the newsletter(Oct 1991). The military DID hide this operation of The Big Red One from the media. That much was known at the time(Feb 28th 1991) and (another article Sept 12 1991, which is probably where Paul picked the story up)

It only took the DoD 2 years to admit what happened in the operation. The few eyewitnesses, 2 colonels leading operation, and 2 bulldozer drivers, all describe a situation where some Iraqis tried to surrender, and where the entire trench was covered over regardless. But none of that was known until at the earliest late 1992 or early 1993.

So Paul just quickly rehashed a long story into a 2 paragraph blurb in a newsletter. 16 years later a Washington DC thinktank employee trudges down to the Library of Congress and reads through dozens of Ron Paul’s publications. He finds the six best smear tactic articles, misquotes them through omission, posts them on FreeRepublic with incendiary misrepresentative thread titles, then promptly disappears from FR without defending his smear campaign.

FR has long hated the anatomy of a smear. This is one. Realize it.

I’m done with this thread, I don’t have time to go on and on about it.