Rapidly spreading news - US Army used white phosphorus and napalm like weapons against ground targets in Iraq.
Democracy Now, U.S. Broadcast Exclusive - "Fallujah: The Hidden Massacre" - Nov 8, 2005
In a North American broadcast exclusive, we bring you an excerpt from a new film that accuses the US of using white phosphorus as a weapon. Produced by Italian state broadcaster RAI TV, the documentary charges U.S. warplanes illegally dropped white phosphorus incendiary bombs on civilian populations, burning the skin off Iraqi victims. One U.S. soldier charges this amounts to the U.S. using chemical weapons against the Iraqi people.US Used Chemical WMD in Fallujah-- video; US GI witness being swiftboated. - OpEd News
Today marks the one-year anniversary of the U.S. assault on the Sunni city of Fallujah when U.S. and Iraqi military forced out the town's residents, bombed hospitals and buildings, attacked whole neighborhoods, and denied entry to relief workers.
Actual video clips (click image to fill screen) from the Italian Documentary, 'Fallujah - the hidden massacre' show charred remains of female victims. Actual video clips (click image to fill screen)Another Marine concedes he never saw his alleged atrocities - Swiftboating.
The film also reveals the use of a new kind of Napalm, called MK77, reporting that "The use of these incendiary substances on civilians is prohibited from the conventions of the UN since 1980."
Reuters - The US military in Iraq denied a report saying US forces used incendiary white phosphorus against civilians.
BBC News - US 'uses incendiary arms' in Iraq Both the Italian government and opposition leaders are talking about a phased withdrawal in 2006.
Boston Globe - ...A documentary yesterday alleging that the United States had used white phosphorus shells "in a massive and indiscriminate way."
Raw Story - US Army publication confirms United States used incendiary weapon...
Daily Kos Diary - What I saw in Iraq with regards to White Phosphorus
I recall them shooting at a target in a tree line, across the river, maybe 700-1000 meters to the east of our position. When the rounds were shot out, they seemed to explode over the target area. A dense white cloud rained down on the tree line and you could see some enemy vehicles attempt to flee the area. I knew from watching similar explosions in training exercises that the cloud raining down on the target area was a white phosphorus round.Daily Kos - Melting the Skin Off of Children
There are very good reasons, even in a time of war, not to melt the skin off of children.First, because the insurgency will inevitably be hardened by tales of American forces melting the skin off of children.And, unless Saddam Hussein had a brigade or two consisting of six year olds, we can presume that children, like perhaps nine tenths or more of their immediate families, are civilians.
Second, because the civilian population will harbor considerable resentment towards Americans for melting the skin off of their children.
Third, BECAUSE IT F***ING MELTS THE SKIN OFF OF CHILDREN.
What of the idea that most of the violent deaths in Iraq are caused by coalition troops? Well according to the Houston Chronicle, even Blair's favourite data source, the Iraqi health ministry, reports that twice as many Iraqis - and most of them civilians - are being killed by US and UK forces as by insurgents. When the Pentagon claims that it has just killed 50 or 70 or 100 rebel fighters, we have no means of knowing who those people really were. Everyone it blows to pieces becomes a terrorist. In July Jack Keane, the former vice chief of staff of the US army, claimed that coalition troops had killed or captured more than 50,000 "insurgents" since the start of the rebellion.Democracy Now Follow-up Debate - Did the U.S. Military Attack Iraqi Civilians With White Phosphorous Bombs in Violation of the Geneva Conventions?
HOLIDAY IN FALLUJA - a US soldier watching the last days of the former city.
The former soldier answers critics.
Terrorism should never be accepted by any rational person or society and is certainly an immoral act, but to say that the US government is clean of all responsibility of terrorism is very naïve. Like Noam Chomsky says, “The best way to end terrorism is to stop participating in it.”
I never meant to deny the presence of terrorist acts in Iraq, and I apologize for not making myself clearer in this manner. I just grow more and more aggravated every day listening to George W. Bush spout out loads of propaganda bullshit convincing this country to live a life of absolute xenophobic fear, and using that word “TERRORISM” to do it. Just the word “TERRORISM” has become derogatory. Sure, terrorism does exist in our society, much like it has been prevalent throughout human history. However, to use this natural fear to control the masses of people is irresponsible and wrong. Because of the Bush Administration, we are now locked into a new “Red Scare”, where the draconian standards of the Patriot Act are absolute dogma and unchecked racism and bigotry can run amuck. A new era of McCarthyism is at the threshold of the freedoms and liberties that makes this country so great. The future is always uncertain, but in these menacing times, with an all-powerful fascist oligarch posing under the banner of Jesus and the American Way of Life, there seems to be little hope for a sane and rational tomorrow.
So for some of you brainwashed idiots out there who would dare to accuse me of cowardice and treason, I say this: How dare you point the finger! I am not the enemy, as I have honorably served this country and did everything in my power to serve and defend the Constitution of the United States. I believe whole heartedly in the great monument of mankind this country could be if only it were not managed by thieves and crooks. The American people are among the most noble and kind-hearted and decent in all the world, which is why we should never let our current deranged government run out of control.
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