Yahoo News Front Page: "Pentagon Used White Phosphorous in Iraq "

[leftchick]

Rate it Up and just MAYBE it may hit our TVs sometime this week...

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20051116/ap_on_go_ca_st_pe/iraq_white_phosphorous

WASHINGTON - Pentagon officials acknowledged Tuesday that U.S. troops used white phosphorous as a weapon against insurgent strongholds during the battle of Fallujah last November. But they denied an Italian television news report that the spontaneously flammable material was used against civilians.

Lt. Col. Barry Venable, a Pentagon spokesman, said that while white phosphorous is most frequently used to mark targets or obscure a position, it was used at times in Fallujah as an incendiary weapon against enemy combatants.

"It was not used against civilians," Venable said.

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"WP proved to be an effective and versatile munition," the authors wrote. "We used it for screening missions at two breeches and, later in the fight, as a potent psychological weapon against the insurgents in trench lines and spider holes when we could not get effects on them with HE (high explosive)" munitions.

"We fired `shake and bake' missions at the insurgents, using WP to flush them out and HE to take them out."

... Shake and Bake!!!! :puke:

[still_one]

1. only took a week for our media to report it

what speed

Europe and everywhere else had already reported it

[IndyOp]

2. God, I don't ask for much, but please, please, please

could you get photos of the children and adults who have been wounded so terribly by white phosphorus on the TV sets. Please. Please. Let this horror end. Please.

I voted. I kicked. I recommended for Greatest.

[ewagner]

3. Using "weasel words" again

"We don't use white phosphorus against civilians". Therefore if any civilian casualties ARE discovered, they are (are you ready for it? Can you guess?)
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COLLATERAL DAMAGE!

[FreedomAngel82]

4. Aren't insurgents citizen's?

[leftchick]

10. nope

terrists. :eyes:

[Fire Walk With Me]

5. Torture, phosphorus, lies... Who the hell are these people??

They have no business being in office.

Haha, business is why they're in office.

[leftchick]

6. *Graphic * Photo of a burned baby. Is It from WP??

I just found this and can't tell because I do not know enough about the subject. It would seem to me if this was WP this poor child would be dead. At any rate it is a horror. :cry:

[leftchick]

7. Let's Not Forget How Ths Started Last Week....

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A controversial documentary aired last week on Italian TV station RAI claims that the US military has used a napalm-like chemical weapon—white phosphorus—against civilian targets in the Iraqi city of Fallujah, an insurgent stronghold. Interviews with two former US Marines accompany graphic scenes of burned and melted bodies.

“It burned children; it burned women. White phosphorus kills indiscriminately. It’s a cloud that will, within, in most cases, 150 meters of impact, will disperse, and it will burn every human being or animal,” said ex-Marine Jeff Englehart in an interview in the documentary, which is entitled “Fallujah: The Hidden Massacre.”

The video is particularly controversial because it suggests both that white phosphorus is a chemical weapon and that it has been used in areas with a significant civilian population.

http://www.theepochtimes.com/news/5-11-15/34599.html

[Inland]

8. "And we don't torture, either." nt

[jn2375]

9. Na it was just baby powder, we would NEVER do anything like that