Pentagon admits that the US uses terror as a weapon!

[3days]

Remember the white phosphorus that the state department said that the US never used? Well we did and it turns out that the US military has learned a thing or two from terrorists.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/4440664.stm

"When you have enemy forces that are in covered positions that your high explosive artillery rounds are not having an impact on and you wish to get them out of those positions, one technique is to fire a white phosphorus round or rounds into the position because the combined effects of the fire and smoke - and in some case the terror brought about by the explosion on the ground - will drive them out of the holes so that you can kill them with high explosives,"

Pentagon spokesman Lt Col Barry Venable told the BBC

Welcome to terrorism United States style!

[Nikki Stone 1]

1. Whoa!

recommended

[madeline_con]

2. "... the US military has learned ...

... a thing or two from terrorists."

The U.S military has been training terrorists for decades.

[The Magistrate]

3. This Is An Old Technique, Sir

It has been employed as long as the round has been in wide usage. It was a common task for the "chemical mortar" batterries in the Seconmd World War, and a common employment of infantry grenades containing phosphorus in the same conflict. Saying this was "learned from terrorists" is rather a stretch. That wuld apply not onmly to this old technique, but to the whole practice of war. The process of war is the striking of terror into human beings: everything done in war is towards that end.

[Neil Lisst]

4. Torture

my view ...

[Enhancer]

5. So it's just plain ol' warfare?

Well that explains it all. Goody!

[soothsayer]

6. shock and awe was that