Mon Nov 07, 2005 It has been alleged that white phosphorus munitions
(WP) were used as anti-personnel weapons against the population of
Falluja.

http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2005/11/7/23354/3447

The Alleged Use of White Phosphorus in Falluja

Nov 07, 2005 at 09:03:54 PM PDT

It has been alleged that white phosphorus munitions (WP) were used as
anti-personnel weapons against the population of Falluja. If true,
this is a war crime. I have a few things to say.

There are no, repeat, NO circumstances where the use of WP as an
antipersonnel weapon is legitimate in warfare. It sickens me to think
that U.S. troops may have systematically applied WP as an aerial
casualty weapon in Falluja. I assure you, as a former chemical
defense advisor in the Pentagon under President Clinton, NO OFFICER
IN THE MILITARY IS CONFUSED ON THIS POINT.

Chemical defense training has been in the forefront since the Gulf
War. I imagine a new circle of Hell is being readied for military
attorneys, battle planners, and Administration policy apparatchiks
that signed off on the use of WP as a mass casualty weapon. That sort
of action has a lot of logistical planning involved...a lot of
paperwork, purchase orders, and a requisitions trail.

Yes, killing people is killing people. Bullets, bombs, rockets..dead
is dead. But at least those weapons have the potential for targeting
against militants...whereas aerial weapons like WP do not allow
discrimination between militants and noncombatants. WP as a mass
casualty weapon is a weapon of terror. If the NATO allies have any
backbone, they will withdraw from NATO if the allegations of WP use
in Falluja are true. Economic sanctions against the U.S. would be in
order.

Kicking the U.S. out of the Olympics is not out of the question. I
desperately hope the allegations are not true. If they are, we have
become worse than what we fear in the spectre of Al Qaeda, because we
have the means and the latitude to exercise conventional and licit
forms of warfare. If the stories are true, we became barbarians out
of frustration at the recalcitrance of the Falluja stronghold. We
should be held to account by our allies. We will be held to account
by future generations of Iraqis.

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We must get the word out, NOW

Thanks for your informed comment. I'm sure you've considered sharing
your concern about this story with your colleagues! We've got to
press for an investigation into this ASAP.
Now?

Jesus wept. It has been going on for so long and the rest of the
world had known about it for so long, you actually dare to use the
word NOW ?

A substantial fraction of US soldiers in Iraq should be facing a
firing squad. All of them deserve censure for participating in an
illegal war of aggression by illegal means.

Even our "blessed" fighting Dems are criminals.

You break the law you pay the price You don't get a free ride
because you carry an American passport. I agree... ..that the death
penalty is immoral (but so is allowing the situation to continue, why
aren't you lying down in front of a tank?).

I would think that 10 to 20 years in the peace corps would be an
appropriate sentence. But I live in a civilized country that does
not have the death penalty (except for treason. It will be US
civilians whose lives are on the line.

The Bushes, the Cheneys, the Rumsfelds et al will all be in their
undisclosed underground fortified bunkers when it comes time to pay
the piper.

As has been discussed many times before, the rest of the world has
seen the interviews with surviving relatives of those murdered
civilians and there must be tens of thousands whose only purpose in
life is to get into the USA and take revenge.

They don't care if it takes them 40 years, either. It reminds me of
that interview Vidal gave the LA Times in November 2003:

"MARC COOPER: How do you think the current war in Iraq is going to
play out?

GORE VIDAL: :I think we will go down the tubes right with it. With
each action Bush ever more enrages the Muslims. And there are a
billion of them. And sooner or later they will have a Saladin who
will pull them together, and they will come after us.

GORE VIDAL: And it won't be pretty. "

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Brains aren't done developing until well into the early 20's. We
should look to our own society's practice of sending kids that don't
have the neurological faculties to use real judgment to kill. Who
shoulders more blame, soldiers or politicians?

While it is clear that atrocities are being carried out by soldiers,
I do have some sympathy for the average grunt in Iraq. The soldiers
are just the pawns; the real war criminals are the thugs in
Washington.

Yes: civilians in Fallujah. There were checkpoints outside Fallujah
were men suspected of being insurgents would be arrested, and other
men were not allowed to leave the city.

Tell them 'Stay in your houses, stay away from windows and stay off
the roof and you'll live through Fallujah,'" Formica, of the 1st
Cavalry Division's 2nd Brigade, told his battalion commanders in a
radio conference call Wednesday night.

ABC story from a year ago.

The tactics used in Fallujah are worthy of the Einsatzkommandos
during WWII. The Marines corp. should be ashamed. The famed troops
have turned into cowards and mass killers.

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