Posted on 11/29/2004 1:07:16 PM PST by areafiftyone
US uses banned weapon ..but was Tony Blair told?
US troops are secretly using outlawed napalm gas to wipe out remaining insurgents in and around Fallujah.
News that President George W. Bush has sanctioned the use of napalm, a deadly cocktail of polystyrene and jet fuel banned by the United Nations in 1980, will stun governments around the world.
And last night Tony Blair was dragged into the row as furious Labour MPs demanded he face the Commons over it. Reports claim that innocent civilians have died in napalm attacks, which turn victims into human fireballs as the gel bonds flames to flesh.
Outraged critics have also demanded that Mr Blair threatens to withdraw British troops from Iraq unless the US abandons one of the world's most reviled weapons. Halifax Labour MP Alice Mahon said: "I am calling on Mr Blair to make an emergency statement to the Commons to explain why this is happening. It begs the question: 'Did we know about this hideous weapon's use in Iraq?'"
Since the American assault on Fallujah there have been reports of "melted" corpses, which appeared to have napalm injuries.
Last August the US was forced to admit using the gas in Iraq.
A 1980 UN convention banned the use of napalm against civilians - after pictures of a naked girl victim fleeing in Vietnam shocked the world.
America, which didn't ratify the treaty, is the only country in the world still using the weapon.
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It smells like victory.
Geez, where do these "people" come from? Napalm is NOT banned and we've been cooking our enemies with it since WWII.
So, to paraphrase those famous words of Archie Bunker: "Would you have prefered little girl, if we had just pushed them out of a window?"
With rice?
/john
True enough; we've been cooking them. Remember how Marines cleared caves and other hard to reach places in WWII with flame throwers? Then there was napalm in Vietnam. It seems to me this is the proper approach for those difficult to reach terrorists.
"Hot enough for a Pork barbecue???"
More than sufficient for pork BBQ.
Perhaps we should first do carpet-bombing run with pigs dropped from the tail-end of a squadron of C-130's, then a follow-on strike by a flight of F-18's with NAPALM.
THat would accomplish 3 things:
1) Completely demoralize the terrorists (pigs and all....)
2) Kill a bunch of them.
3) Provide hot BBQ for our victorious troops.
This clown is describing white phosphorus. It's used as a spotting round for artillery. And yes it's hell to put out!
We are using high powered laser beams to toast the terrorists. Napalm is so last year. Can't any of these twits get it right.
Well, we could also throw in some whiskey to help the fire have a nice flavor (and to upset our enemies), and beer for the men when they're done.
How in the name of all that's Holy do you use napalm "secretly"???
Today's Aviation Week reports that a test facility for the Airborne Laser 747 laser is ready to be used. Additional funding for the 15KW tactical laser is proceeding and maybe we can fry those rag heads!!!
Yep, exactly right...the Marines called it "the blowtorch and corkscrew" technique...Napalm (or flamethrower), followed by satchel charges and/or grenades...it was very effective.
We also used it effectively in Korea against the Chinese human wave attacks.
Napalm is NOT banned.
"Well, we could also throw in some whiskey to help the fire have a nice flavor"
OK - Gotta be JAck Daniels then - good addition to BBQ flavor.
"and beer for the men when they're done."
Even better - but this should be parachuted in as we wouldn't want to suds-ify the beer.
The MOAB is not a FAE. FAEs have been around a long time. And the MOAB doesn't function the same way. See http://www.fas.org/man/dod-101/sys/dumb/fae.htm
Actions have consequences...
These loud mouth, hating SOBs should have thought about that before they started this crap....
Semper Fi
Well, they could have trucks accompamying them as they ride into battle. It might not be quite like Toby's Keith's ballad - "Whiskey for my men, beer for my horses" - but the troops wouldn't mind.
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