Shame on CNN's Peter Arnett and April Oliver for cowardly claiming American troops used nerve gas on fellow American troops ... and Double-SHAME for WANTING IT TO BE TRUE!

It is cowardly because of the method used by journalist by asking a question rather than boldly stating the claim as factual. Peter Arnett shared a by-line on the Time's story with producer April Oliver who was fired. Read the Cowardly Claim, which in part asks: Did The U.S. Drop Nerve Gas? "A CNN investigation charges that the U.S. used gas in 1970 to save troops sent into Laos to kill defectors."

Read Newsweeks debunk of CNN's Nerve Gas claim!

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CNN's Retraction to Nerve Gas Claim

Peter Arnett - FIRED! From Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaJuly 1968.

"In 1998 Arnett narrated a joint venture between CNN and Time Magazine called NewsStand, which described what he called "Operation Tailwind." The report said that the US Army had used Sarin against a group of deserting US soldiers in Laos in 1970. In response, The Pentagon commissioned another report contradicting CNN's. CNN subsequently retracted the story after conducting an internal investigation and a number of the persons responsible for the report was fired or forced to resign. Arnett was reprimanded by his employer and even though he didn't stand by the story in order to save his job he was still fired. "