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Pentagon Used White Phosphorous in Iraq...
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| Tuesday, November 15, 2005; 6:02 PM
| ROBERT BURNS (AP)
Posted on 11/15/2005 4:55:30 PM PST by fontoon
Pentagon Used White Phosphorous in Iraq By ROBERT BURNS The Associated Press Tuesday, November 15, 2005; 6:02 PM
WASHINGTON -- Pentagon officials acknowledged Tuesday that U.S. troops used white phosphorous as a weapon against insurgent strongholds during the battle of Fallujah last November. But they denied an Italian television news report that the spontaneously flammable material was used against civilians.
Lt. Col. Barry Venable, a Pentagon spokesman, said that while white phosphorous is most frequently used to mark targets or obscure a position, it was used at times in Fallujah as an incendiary weapon against enemy combatants.
"It was not used against civilians," Venable said.
The spokesman referred reporters to an article in the March-April 2005 edition of the Army's Field Artillery magazine, an official publication, in which veterans of the Fallujah fight spelled out their use of white phosphorous and other weapons. The authors used the shorthand "WP" in referring to white phosphorous.
"WP proved to be an effective and versatile munition," the authors wrote. "We used it for screening missions at two breeches and, later in the fight, as a potent psychological weapon against the insurgents in trench lines and spider holes when we could not get effects on them with HE (high explosive)" munitions.
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TOPICS: Government
KEYWORDS: fallujah; gwot; iraq; oif; waronterror; whitephosphorous
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I don't understand how using a smoke screan is illegal, but I notice the left wing blogs are going crazy over this.
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posted on
11/15/2005 4:55:31 PM PST
by
fontoon
To: fontoon
I don't understand how using a smoke screen is illegal, but I notice the left wing blogs are going crazy over this. Jesse Jackson says we have to use Black Phosphorus.
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posted on
11/15/2005 4:57:21 PM PST
by
TruthShallSetYouFree
(Abortion is to family planning what bankruptcy is to financial planning.)
To: fontoon
So? Burn the terrorists.....
Nothing better than the smell of Napalm in the morning...
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posted on
11/15/2005 4:57:54 PM PST
by
nevergore
(“It could be that the purpose of my life is simply to serve as a warning to others.”)
To: aculeus; Thinkin' Gal; Senator Bedfellow; BlueLancer
White phosphorous article by Mr. Burns.
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posted on
11/15/2005 4:57:57 PM PST
by
dighton
To: fontoon
Left-Wing Headline: WAR IS HECK
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posted on
11/15/2005 4:58:05 PM PST
by
TruthShallSetYouFree
(Abortion is to family planning what bankruptcy is to financial planning.)
To: fontoon
Willie Pete is some nasty stuff but if we gotta use it to accomplish the mission and save American lives then so be it.
To: fontoon
Yeah... we killed the bad guys real good.
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posted on
11/15/2005 4:58:51 PM PST
by
Lexington Green
(''America has the watches. We have the time.'' -- Al-Zawahiri)
To: fontoon
You mean the Anti- Maerican blogs. I honestly believe they want America to lose. How sad.
I say whatever the troops need to avoid American casualties, go for it !!!!!!!
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posted on
11/15/2005 4:59:34 PM PST
by
Pedrobud
(Bush- Grow a sack and fight back !!!!!)
To: fontoon
We should have only fired nerf balls at the terrorists.
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posted on
11/15/2005 4:59:43 PM PST
by
Travis McGee
(--- www.EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com ---)
To: Pedrobud
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posted on
11/15/2005 5:00:07 PM PST
by
Pedrobud
(Bush- Grow a sack and fight back !!!!!)
To: Texas_Jarhead
Wille Pete is too effective and saves too many lives in the end to allow the left-wingers to take it off the table.
To: fontoon
What weapons don't inflict pain on the enemy? I'm pretty sure grenades and bullets are painful.
How do the libtards think our soldiers kill the enemy? With feathers? They're sad that we kicked ass in Fallujah, and their heroes (the enemy) were killed. Boo Hoo.
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posted on
11/15/2005 5:00:36 PM PST
by
Redgirl
(I don't do hyphens.)
To: fontoon
All you need to know about why is's OK to use "Willie Pete" in Iraq
To: Texas_Jarhead
how is willie pete nasty stuff, what makes it more nasty than other smoke incendiaries
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posted on
11/15/2005 5:00:42 PM PST
by
fontoon
To: fontoon
Can we just offer $5,000,000 to every leftist and his family who want to leave the nation. It would be so worth it. Raise my taxes, PLEASE, just do it!
To: fontoon
Oh my goodness! You mean they actually KILLED PEOPLE in Iraq by burning them instead of splattering their guts all over the place? Must be a human rights violation! BTW, White Phospherous is just another way to kill the enemy that isn't banned by any treaty that the U.S is a signatory of: (Cribbed from Wikipedia)
Use of white phosphorus is not specifically banned by any treaty, however the 1980 Convention on Conventional Weapons (Protocol III) prohibits the use of incendiary weapons against civilian populations or by air attack against military forces that are located within concentrations of civilians. [2] The United States is among the nations that are parties to the convention but have not signed protocol III.
To: fontoon
People should go back and see the firethrowers used to clean out the caves of Saipan. White Phosphorus would have been a big plus in that battle. So would have thermobaric bombs.
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posted on
11/15/2005 5:01:08 PM PST
by
putupjob
To: fontoon
Sweet. Now they can get the sensation of burning alive before they get their 72 goats.
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posted on
11/15/2005 5:01:11 PM PST
by
varyouga
(Reformed Kerry voter ( I know, I'm a frickin' idiot))
To: TruthShallSetYouFree
Willie Pete bump.
Jesse says, "White phosphorous across the Bosporus is
preposterous."
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posted on
11/15/2005 5:01:14 PM PST
by
tet68
( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
To: fontoon
Pentagon Used White Phosphorous in Iraq.So?
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posted on
11/15/2005 5:02:23 PM PST
by
SeeRushToldU_So
(It is hotter than two rats screwing in a wool sock in GA.)
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