[fontoon]

I don't understand how using a smoke screan is illegal, but I notice the left wing blogs are going crazy over this.

[TruthShallSetYouFree]

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.

[nevergore]

So? Burn the terrorists.....

Nothing better than the smell of Napalm in the morning...

[dighton]

White phosphorous article by Mr. Burns.

[TruthShallSetYouFree]

Left-Wing Headline: WAR IS HECK

[Texas_Jarhead]

Willie Pete is some nasty stuff but if we gotta use it to accomplish the mission and save American lives then so be it.

[Lexington Green]

Yeah... we killed the bad guys real good.

[Pedrobud]

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 !!!!!!!

[Travis McGee]

We should have only fired nerf balls at the terrorists.

[Redgirl]

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.

[Anti-Bubba182]

All you need to know about why is's OK to use "Willie Pete" in Iraq

[DoughtyOne]

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!

[Odyssey-x]

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.

[putupjob]

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.

[varyouga]

Sweet. Now they can get the sensation of burning alive before they get their 72 goats.

[SeeRushToldU_So]

Pentagon Used White Phosphorous in Iraq.

So?

[crazyhorse691]

What is even more disturbing is that I read that some marines carried KNIVES. And they were walking very fast. Next, the moonbats will be crying a river over the emissions a tank makes.

[doodad]

Yeah, so what? Use napalm and poison gas for all I care. You don't go to war to lose. People will die and if they are the enemy, so what?

My Dad did two tours and if that is what it takes, so be it.

[DugwayDuke]

Smoke screens are not illegal. The issue is with this portion:

"...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."

When a WP 'explodes' it fragments into small pieces that fall to the ground. I think the author was saying these small pieces would fall into the trenches and spider holes. Please note, I'm not criticizing the use of WP as an anti-personnel weapon. In fact, I'm all in favor of it. Never understood why it's ok to blow a guy up or shoot him full of holes or bayoneting him but burning him is somehow wrong.

[Non-Sequitur]

Pentagon Used White Phosphorous in Iraq...

Yeah...so?

[Frenetic]

White Phosphorus can be pretty nasty stuff when used as a weapon.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_phosphorus_incendiary

"These weapons are particularly nasty because white phosphorus continues to burn until it disappears. If service members are hit by pieces of white phosphorus, it could burn right down to the bone."