Phosphorous used as weapon

DAILY KOS has an excerpt from a US Army publication discussing use of white phosphorous as a weapon in the assault on Fallujah. Interestingly enough, just yesterday on Democracy Now, Lieutenant Colonel Steve Boylan, I believe, or some other Boylan - Steve seems to be in charge of denying human rights violations and treaty violations on lefty radio - was denying they used white phosphorous that way. He said they used it for the smoke to conceal troop activity. The latter use is okay by the rules of the Geneva Conventions. The former is a violation. Hence the presence of Steve.

Can the events of the past couple of months be a rightwing plan to create sympathy for themselves by completely screwing up at every turn? Just yesterday Trent Lott publicly embarrassed Bill Frist - on purpose, on TV - by revealing that the source of the leak about black sites had probably been in the roomful of Republican senators who had been discussing it at length just the day before the story broke.

The wheels have come off, the chassis has crumbled, and their asses are dragging on the gravel. They must be overdoing it to arouse the pity of the voting public. No movement can implode this drastically by sheer dumbness. Right?