[Specop_007]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('PolestaR', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('armegeddon', 'I') heard on the radio the following:
there was signs of barbaric torture while they were alive, their eyes were gouged out, genitals cut off and stuffed down their throats, hearts were cut out, they were beheaded. The bodies were then desecrated, booby trapped, and the road leading to them was lined with IED's.

[uNkNowN ElEmEnt]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'I')n this particular case, an Arclight strike might be a fair reward

[SoothSayer]

uNkNowN ElEmEnt this is simply a tactical them-or-us situation.

Most of the combatants do not have a "big picture" of the situation.

If the US does nothing then this sort of situation will happen again.

However if the US spells out clearly what happens after such an incident then maybe these incidents will occur less often.

I would rather that "our" side has an improved chance of survival ... even if "their" side gets punished.

That's the the world works.

[ashurbanipal]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'I') would rather that "our" side has an improved chance of survival ... even if "their" side gets punished.

That's the the world works.

[SoothSayer]

Maybe this attitude of valuing ourselves more than others is part of why.

I value myself & my family & my friends and possibly my neighbours more than others.

I would be worried if anyone expressed any different opinion about themselves or their family.

[eastbay]

Imagine how angry people must be to do things like this; anger developed and nurtured by the US military occupation. The US military occupation of Iraq serves no purpose other than forming more anger. The result of this madness can only be more and more anger and brutality by those resisting the occupation.

The sooner the US leaves the better things will be for everyone (well, other than the economic interests of those profiting from the insanity).

[uNkNowN ElEmEnt]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'I')f the US does nothing then this sort of situation will happen again.

[FairMaiden]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', ' ')it is survival for the jihadists and they are complelled to convert us or kill us.

[RG73]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('uNkNowN ElEmEnt', ' ')Have you never heard about what the US did in Fallujah? about the white mustard gas that ate peoples skin right off their bones? About the tens of thousands of people who were eaten alive when the US let white mustard loose in a low altitiude burst? There is no cure or way to reverse it once you get that stuff on you. Can you possibly imagine a worse way to die?

[ashurbanipal]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'I') value myself & my family & my friends and possibly my neighbours more than others.

I would be worried if anyone expressed any different opinion about themselves or their family.

[RG73]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('eastbay', 'I')magine how angry people must be to do things like this; anger developed and nurtured by the US military occupation.

[NiKfUrY69]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('uNkNowN ElEmEnt', 'H')ave you never heard about what the US did in Fallujah? about the white mustard gas that ate peoples skin right off their bones?

[rwwff]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('RG73', '
')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'e')aten alive when the US let white mustard loose in a low altitiude burst?

[RG73]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('FairMaiden', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', ' ')it is survival for the jihadists and they are complelled to convert us or kill us.

[uNkNowN ElEmEnt]

Dude, you never heard what happened in Fallujah? I was sick for weeks.

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The controversy has raged for 12 months. Ever since last November, when US forces battled to clear Fallujah of insurgents, there have been repeated claims that troops used "unusual" weapons in the assault that all but flattened the Iraqi city. Specifically, controversy has focussed on white phosphorus shells (WP) - an incendiary weapon usually used to obscure troop movements but which can equally be deployed as an offensive weapon against an enemy. The use of such incendiary weapons against civilian targets is banned by international treaty.

The debate was reignited last week when an Italian documentary claimed Iraqi civilians - including women and children - had been killed by terrible burns caused by WP. The documentary, Fallujah: the Hidden Massacre, by the state broadcaster RAI, cited one Fallujah human-rights campaigner who reported how residents told how "a rain of fire fell on the city". Yesterday, demonstrators organised by the Italian communist newspaper, Liberazione, protested outside the US Embassy in Rome. Today, another protest is planned for the US Consulate in Milan. "The 'war on terrorism' is terrorism," one of the newspaper's commentators declared.
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Almost one year after these allegations came to light, a new documentary claims to provide fresh evidence of the use of chemical weapons in Fallujah. In the film, eyewitnesses and ex-US soldiers say white phosphorus bombs were used in Fallujah. Rai says this amounts to the illegal use of chemical weapons and says they were used indiscriminately against civilian populations.
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November 9, 2005 on the BBC News website, under the title US 'uses incendiary arms' in Iraq I could still read:

Italian state TV, RAI, has broadcast a documentary accusing the US military of using white phosphorus bombs against civilians in the Iraqi city of Fallujah.

Rai says this amounts to the illegal use of chemical arms, though the bombs are considered incendiary devices.

Eyewitnesses and ex-US soldiers say the weapon was used in built-up areas in the insurgent-held city.

The US military denies this, but admits using white phosphorus bombs in Iraq to illuminate battlefields.


Yesterday I wrote on why the BBC NEWS is wrong when (in its article: “though the bombs are considered incendiary devices” and with an email to me: “White Phosphorous is not a chemical weapon”) it denies that the white phosphorus is a chemical weapon.

According to international law, any chemical used to harm or kill people or animals is considered a chemical weapon. In the words of Peter Kaiser (Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons):

“Any chemical that is used against humans or against animals that causes harm or death through the toxic properties of the chemical, ARE considered chemical weapons and as long as the purpose is to cause harm - that is prohibited behaviour.” (You can listen to his words directly by following this link and click the “Play” under the photo on the right at the bottom of the page)

[NiKfUrY69]

Bullets are a chemical weapon - they cause lead poisoning.

Dead is dead.

Funny how it's only evil when the US does it.

NiK

[NiKfUrY69]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('uNkNowN ElEmEnt', 'D')ude, you never heard what happened in Fallujah? I was sick for weeks.

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[rwwff]

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[ashurbanipal]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'N')o, I can't actually imagine being so angry that I'd gouge out someone's eyes and cut their dick off and shove it down their throat.

[Free]

Anybody remember the movie "Red Dawn"?

What would you do if some foreigners (muslims?) liberated the US of the evil dictator Bush?

Even if you hated Bush, would you welcome your new overlords and their puppet regime? Would you let them rob your country blind and say "thank you very much"?

Would you rather fight alongside your countrymen, even if you hated some of them before, or would you support the foreigners?

Wouldn't you call somebody who did the latter call a coward and a traitor, and rightly so?

Cut your losses and accept that you lost the occupation of Iraq. Sooner or later you will have to do it anyway, and the longer it takes, the costlier the defeat will be.