Stardate 20011022.0402 (On Screen): The Taliban claim that the US has targeted a hospital. They're also claiming that
we're using chemical weapons. To hear the Taliban tell it, I bet that after the US has finished bombing all the hospitals, we'll start destroying orphanages.
By the way, if we start using chemical weapons you'll know. You won't see "a state of poisonousness" on the wounded, what you'll see is mountains of corpses. The chemical agents we have the ability to deploy are immensely lethal.
Mullah Omar has issued an announcement that predicted victory by the Taliban over the US. It was issued from an unknown hiding place where Omar and his fellows are cowering in fear of American bombing (and rightfully so, too). This all reminds me of the announcements that the Japanese issued after every major battle in the Pacific during World War II. Every time there was a battle, the newpapers in Japan would herald the tremendous defeat which had been handed to the Americans, along with a huge list of American ships that had been sunk and a description of the utter ruin which had been visited on American forces. To read the reports, the Japanese badly defeated the US at Guadalcanal, and again at New Guinea, and again at Guam; at the Battle of Leyte Gulf and at Iwo and at Okinawa. And yet, somehow the battles seemed to be getting closer and closer to the Japanese home islands. It seemed as if Japan was winning every battle but losing the war. In actuality, their claims were complete fabrications. One American carrier was reported to have been sunk over a dozen times over the course of the war -- and somehow managed to survive the war intact. (discuss)
