Tuesday, May 12, 2009
U.S. Admited Using White Phosphorous as an Offensive Weapon in 2005
People are rightly outraged that the U.S. appears to be using white phosphorous as an offensive weapon in Afghanistan.
But this is nothing new.
The U.S. admitted using white phosphorous as an offensive weapon in Iraq in 2005.
As I wrote at the time:
The Battle Book, published by the U.S. Command and General Staff College at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, contains the following sentence:"It is against the law of land warfare to employ WP against personnel targets."Indeed, it is interesting to note that the U.S. previously called white phosphorous a chemical weapon when Saddam used it against the Kurds.
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The US used white phosphorous when it attacked Fallujah in November 2004. See, YouTube, "Fallujah The Hidden Massacre". Very graphic: Victims burnt to the bone, garments left intact.
ReplyDeleteClip starts with napalm being dropped in Vietnam. But now the Taliban have obtained and is using white phosphorous. Don’t like getting a dose of your own medicine, huh? You invented and manufactured those wicked weapons. Now the wind has blown in back in your faces. So suck it up Infidels.
I was personally in the battle in Fallujah in April 2004. I was an infantry Marine. We were never issued WP and I never heard of any unit using WP. We fucking leveled that city but I did not hear anything about WP.
ReplyDeleteJimmie Pittman you just need to google falluja phospher or see the evidence on youtube. It's not hard to find.
ReplyDeletehey Jimmie, a lot of marines dispute your story, they talk about "shake n bake" and the evidence bears out the use of WP, I've seen the photos, nothing else can do that to a human being or an animal, for that matter. don't try to bullshit us on here, dude. it's not right.
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