- What kind of country is this?
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- Not only does America use grotesque chemical weapons
in its "War of Liberation"--in this case white phosphorus bombs
that are as nasty as anything Saddam Hussein could have dreamt up, with
the ability to eat their way into a body and liquefy flesh--but our shameless
leaders, when caught in the act, try to lie their way out of their own
atrocious behavior.
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- When an Italian documentary producer released a film
exposing this war crime committed in the course of the destruction of Fallujah,
the honchos at the Pentagon and the White House lied through their teeth,
claiming that the scenes of cascading phosphorus bombs blanketing the city,
incinerating fighters and civilians alike, which were depicted clearly
in the film, were just flares being used for night lighting.
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- But the Italian journalists, who had done their homework,
rebutted those lies with Pentagon after-action reports that detailed the
deliberate use of the phosphorus weapons--both bombs and mortars, all clearly
manufactured for the purpose of incineration, not illumination.
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- Now the fall-back limited hang-out excuse from the Pentagon
is that okay, the military did use phosphorus bombs, but only on military
targets, not civilians. Check out the photos of raining phosphorus when
you read the word "target".
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- This latest war crime dwarfs the earlier reports of officially
sanctioned torture.
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- Countless civilians--including women and children--were
cruelly burned to death (whether incidentally or in a deliberate attempt
to terrorize scarcely matters) in the most agonizing of ways. Enemy fighters
were killed through the use of weapons that have been outlawed by the civilized
world--a world that America can not claim to be a part of.
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- American troops even have a term for the barbaric technique
-- "Shake and Bake"--clear evidence that this was no one-off
affair.
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- No wonder journalists have been barred from Fallujah,
except when safely embedded and under the control of U.S. military units.
No wonder there were reports of whole blocks being bulldozed clear of soil
and hosed down after the fighting ended. No wonder the U.S. took control
of hospitals in the area and barred the media. No wonder the U.S. military
avoided doing body counts.
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- The U.S. now stands unequivocally condemned as an outlaw
terror nation.
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- The only bright spot in this horror show is that President
Bush, our strutting, god-communing commander-in-chief, will now end his
career (hopefully sooner than anticipated) confined to the U.S., lest he
be arrested and tried in a cage like Saddam for the crime of using chemical
weapons against civilians in Iraq.
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- What a grand irony that would be.
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- Breaking Update: More Pathetic Excuses
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- Still squirming at the exposure of its WMD war crime
in Fallujah, the Pentagon late Wednesday came up with two more rationales
for its use of phosphorus bombs. The first: it's just another part of the
"conventional" arsenal. The second: armies have all used this
weapon for a century.
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- Let's examine these excuses. First of all, phosphorus
is no conventional weapon. It is a chemical weapon that kills slowly and
painfully by burning its way into the body, making it as insidious as any
poison gas weapon (precisely why the Pentagon initially denied its use
in Fallujah). Second, there are lots of horrible weapons that have been
used routinely by armies over the past century. Phosphorus is one. Others
are mustard gas, chlorine gas, and various germ weapons. Common usage in
the past is no justification for continued use of such barbaric weaponry.
Heck, killing POWs was accepted practice long ago, too, as well as rape
and pillage following conquest. Now those are war crimes.
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- Let's just face it. If a terrorist were to unleash a
phosphorus bomb in a U.S. city, our president and defense secretary would
be calling it a WMD, and that is exactly what phosphorus is.
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- One other point: When phosphorus was used in the 20th
century, it was for the most part used on battlefields agaiinst soldiers.
This is a case where phosphorus was used in an urban setting full of civilians.
The gruesome and criminal results were predictable.
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- Incidentally, the Pentagon and State Department should
get their stories straight. Rumsfeld's guys are saying phosphorus bombs
are just part of the standard arsenal of "conventional" weapons,
but only a day before, on Nov. 15, US Ambassador to Britain Robert H Tuttle
told the UK paper The Independent, "US forces participating in Operation
Iraqi Freedom continue to use appropriate lawful, conventional weapons
against legitimate targets. US forces do not use napalm or white phosphorus
as weapons."
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- Uh-huh. Let's tell it to the judge...
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