The Pentagon had just admitted that it used white phosphorus, a chemical weapon, in an attack on Fallujah. Civilians were in the city at the time.
That’s right, the USA, which launched an invasion of Iraq under the pretext that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction, has admitted that it used a weapon of mass destruction against the Iraqis.
“It was used as an incendiary weapon against enemy combatants,” spokesman Lt Col Barry Venable told the BBC.
The Pentagon admitted the white phosphorus was used as a chemical weapon, NOT as an device for illumination, as it had previously claimed. The Pentagon admitted that when it denied the use of white phosphorus as a weapon in the attack on Fallujah, it had lied.
More to come, but read the BBC article…
Oh, I can just imagine the Republican excuses for this one. “It’s not really a classic chemical weapon,” they’ll say. “It’s a conventional weapon,” they’ll claim.
Conventional my ass. Conventional weapons don’t burn people down to the bone through chemical means!
We do not torture. We do not use unconventional weapons (unless we have to). It gets more and more disgusting as we go: Abu Graib, chemical weapons, secret prisons, it just goes on and on. I hope the American electorate has had enough of the lies from the chicken hawks and votes them out of office as a result.
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