Officials confirm dropping firebombs on Iraqi troops - Results are 'remarkably similar' to....

SignOn SanDiego ^

[Constitution Day]

Posted here:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/958641/posts

[Wu]

Dead is dead.

[DWPittelli]

And I understand that -- even to this day! -- we're using high-RPM spinning kinetic-kill devices made of toxic lead, that just rip holes through people!

(aka "bullets")

[Ruth A.]

You can call it something other than napalm, but it's napalm...

No: it is very close to napalm; it can't get any closer than napalm; for all intents and purposes it is similar to napalm... The ways to speak more accurately are legion.

Hey, if it saved some of our guys being lost, then I have no problem. At least they didn't run a couple of jets into buildings that held thousands of civilians.

[At _War_With_Liberals]

The old "link to napalm to vietnam to US military is evil to outraged Americans kept in the dark" trick...

Sorry, try again.

[Robe]

Nope, it's not napalm.......this new stuff just doesn't stick to stuff as well.(:^)

[ArcLight]

The worst part is the Pentagon's Orwellian effort to avoid calling the weapons by their right names. At the very least, this stuff sounds like Napalm Lite.

[pfflier]

"They were Iraqi soldiers there. It's no great way to die,"

Profound. What does he want. a kinder gentler way to die in war?

Maybe we could have fed the Iraqi troops through the shredder or to the lions.

[GalaxieFiveHundred]

Dang, those pesky rules of engagement! Should have been politically correct and just used more of these babies!

[pfflier]

The worst part is the Pentagon's Orwellian effort to avoid calling the weapons by their right names.

What is so "Orwellian" about that? Napalm, technically, is comprised of naptha and palm oil. It hasn't been used since the Korean war. Other concoctions burn better and are more stable and efficient. Nuclear weapons burn, fuel air bombs burn. Conventional munitions develop their effects through large exothermic reactions.

Is the Pentagon "Orwellian" for not pointing that out? Or is the press baiting the whimpy handwringers craving for another Vietnam?

[SpinnerWebb]

"You can call it something other than napalm, but it's napalm," said John Pike, defense analyst with GlobalSecurity.org, a nonpartisan research group in Alexandria, Va.

It depends upon what your definition of "is" is ..... *endscarc*

[azcap]

"Incendiaries create burns that are difficult to treat," said Robert Musil, executive director of Physicians for Social Responsibility, a Washington group that opposes the use of weapons of mass destruction.

A bullet to the head is difficult to treat as well.

[joanil]

Is that kind of like the 'jet fuel' napalm that was used to impale WTC Towers #1 North and #2 South????????????? Resulting in 2,000+ civilian casualties?????????????

If so, please excuse my inattendance from this thread.......

[XJarhead]

The worst part is the Pentagon's Orwellian effort to avoid calling the weapons by their right names. At the very least, this stuff sounds like Napalm Lite

How is it "Orwellian" to say that something isn't "napalm" when it [i]isn't[/i] napalm? "Napalm" is a rather specifically defined substance with specific qualities. Here's a link:

http://www.emedicine.com/emerg/topic919.htm

The stuff used in Iraq had some similarities to napalm, but some differences. It wasn't napalm, any more than a VT fuse is the same as a time fuze. The tactical usage may be similar, but the actual items are not the same. In fact, I could honestly see the military calling it napalm, and then have someone come out and accuse them of misidentifying the stuff that was actually used.

[CJ Wolf]

Whatever

[pfflier]

*reopen sarc* "You can call it something other than napalm, but it's napalm," said John Pike, defense analyst with GlobalSecurity.org, a nonpartisan research group in Alexandria, Va.

It depends upon what your definition of "is" is .....

Ignorance of omission is forgivable if something is learned. Ignorance of comission is unpardonable because it is intended to deceive. *endscarc*

[joanil]

Missing from the lineup is 'Fat Man/Little Boy'

[Robert A Cook PE]

Oh....

I'm sorry.

I thought a government-funded "non-partisan research group" WAS actually non-partisan.

Not a bunch of screaming shills for the international socialist union of "peace-loving" nations-who-never-met-acommunist-they-didn't-love ....

[.cnI redruM]

The thing that really sucks about napalm; it sticks to the darn hot dogs and ruins your entire cookout.